Bem Vindo! (Welcome!) to Rio Rhythmics Latin Dance Academy, Brisbane’s home of social Latin dance and culture since 1994.
Come join us and be welcomed onto our dance floors and into our vibrant community.
You’ll find a Latin dance course to suit with classes running 6 days a week from introductory to advanced in 11 popular Latin dance styles.
For safety, we’re following the QLD Dance & Physical Performing Arts COVID Safe Industry Plan.
If you’re new to Latin dance, come join us for a 10 week Intro Course, find out more and book online here.
If you have Latin dance experience, find the full current schedule here.
Join us for a 90min party-style Intro Lesson to get a taste of what Latin dancing and the Rio Rhythmics Community is all about.
Saturdays fortnightly.
Find upcoming Saturday Latin Mix Intro Lesson and Party dates and book online today here.
Find all upcoming Latin dance events via our Facebook Events here.
Whether you’re an absolute beginner or an advanced social Latin dancer we offer courses, coaching, festivas, social catch ups and a life of dance for you.
DIRECTOR’S WELCOME
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LATEST STORIES & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dance as a conversation
"Dance is a conversation" is something our Founding Director, Tarcisio Teatini-Climaco, has been saying for over two decades. So we decided to get him to spill the beans on exactly why, and this is what he said... For the past 28 years I have been teaching in...
The Art of Leading and Following in Latin Dance
Tune-up with your partner Dance is not something that happens on the dance floor, dance is life. We need to 'live' dance. Dance is inside us When we embrace someone to dance we are not ourselves anymore, we are not two people dancing together, we are...
Stop! Don’t Learn Steps First
There are two common trains of thought when you're thinking about starting Latin dancing. Maybe you fall into one of these? One is being worried about having to memorise a whole lot of steps because you're probably already holding so much in your head already it might...
Finding a common ground through dance.
Rio Rhythmic's "Tell your dance story" project aims to highlight the accomplishments, transformations and achievements of members in our community. Ben and Scarlett's Story Ben and Scarlett what first brought you to dancing? I(Ben) have always wanted to do Latin...
Let’s talk about style!
Today, Tarcisio said to me, lets talk about style! I said, ok, your's or mine? Haha, kidding... Let's talk about style when it comes to a cultural dance, specifically social Latin dance. People sometimes think that style is the way a dance style looks, Salsa looks...
Dance – a journey to freedom
Rio Rhythmic's "Tell your dance story" project aims to highlight the accomplishments, transformations and achievements of members in our community. Grace and Adam's dance story Grace I started Latin dance with Rio rhythmics in July 2016, just trying to learn new...