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💜 Cologne Zouk Festival 2026 - GERMAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP 💜10-12. April 2026
10 years anniversary
We are celebrating a decade of Zouk in Cologne! For our 10th anniversary, we’re going bigger, better, and longer. Experience a new venue, more dance floors, and the same legendary family atmosphere—now leveled up.
💎 The Highlights We Keep
🏆 Win the German Open Championship
🏆 Official BZDC JnJ: 5+ Divisions (Newcomer to All-Stars).
⚖️ Balanced Follwer Leader Ratio
🎓 Deep Learning: Longer workshops for more progress & training time with daily topics instead of random classes (Connection, Technique, Musicality, Expression)
🎓 ZoukCologne methodology (updated level descriptions with higher levels)
🎥 Professional videographers capturing your best demos and social moments.
🥰 Cologne Family Atmosphere
💪 German Efficency
- 5 days of workshops and parties
- strong limitation for the masterclasses
- Small groups for special JnJ trainings
- safer space guidelines
- solo classes to work on your expression & technique
- workshops, bootcamps & masterclasses for all levels (beginners & headmovement as well)
✨ What’s New for 2026?
☀️ Day Socials: More hours to dance during the day! (also during JnJ)
🏠 New Main Venue: More space to breathe and dance (Hürth).
🍱 Food On-Site: Stay fueled without leaving the venue.
💃 New Tracks: Dedicated Lambada & BachaZouk tracks (Intensives & Floors).
🏆 Pro-Am JnJ: A new way to compete and shine.
- One extra room with workshops for 3 levels at the same time
- BachaZouk track (Beginners bootcamp, Headmovement Intensive, Saturday Intensives & Bachata Floor)
- Lambada track (Sunday Intensives & Lambada Floor)
✨ Artist Line-Up ✨
Gui & Paloma
Marck & Melyssa
more to come, we announce one by one ;-)
📍 --- New Main Venue (Fri-Sun) --- 📍
Friedrichstraße-Ebert-Str.40
50354 Hürth
- you can get there by taking line number 18 to Hermühlheim and from there 10 min walk or take a bus
- we recommend H+ Hotel Köln Hürth as closest accommodation possibility
(Keep an eye on the schedule for locations of the preparties and workshops before Friday)
🤳 All updates & information also on our Instagram channel: @zoukcologne
https://www.instagram.com/zoukcologne
👩🏫 --- Schedule Draft --- 👨🏫
might be subject to changes
👩🏫 Tuesday: regular ZoukCologne classes with Gabi & Justus
18:30 Level 1
19: 45 Level 2
👩🏫 Wednesday: regular ZoukCologne classes at Tanzraum Nippes (Neusser Str. 216)
18:45 Lambada with Sonja
19:45 Practica
20:45 Welcome Class to the festival included in Fullpass
21:45 Pre-Party (Topic: Cologne Boyband)
👩🏫 Thursday:
19:00-22:00 Beginners Bootcamp at Tanzraum Zentrum (Salierring 33) included in Fullpass
22:00-02:00 Preparty different location to be announced
👩🏫 Friday: Topic Connection & Teamwork
14:00-17:00 Headmovement Intensive
Main Venue:
19-22:00 regular Workshops
22:00-05:00 Party
👩🏫 Saturday: Topic Technique
Main Venue
12:00-19:00 regular Workshops
12:00-16:00 Intensives Special Skills (Suitable for Bachazouk and Brazilian Zouk)
16:00-19:00 Day Social
19:00-22:00 Jack and Jill (Newcomer, Novice, Intermediate Prelims & Finals)
22:00-05:00 Party (2 Brazilian Zouk Floors & 1 Bachata Floor)
👩🏫 Sunday: TopicMusicality & Expression
12:00-19:00 regular Workshops
12:00-16:00 Intensives Lambada
16:00-19:00 Day Social
19:00-22:00 Jack and Jill (Pro-Am, Advanced, All-Stars, Prelims & Finals)
22:00-05:00 Party (2 Brazilian Zouk Floors & 1 Lambada Floor)
🎫 --- Tickets & Prices --- 💸
Fullpass:
all regular workshops, all day socials and night parties, beginners bootcamp, discount on intensives & jnj
First 10 Tickets 125€
Lot 1: 155€
Lot 2: 175€
Lot 3: 195€
ATD: 215€
Couple Fullpass
Lot 2: 350€
Lot 3: 390€
Partypass: all preparties, day socials, all main parties
70€
Couple Partypass
140€
Parties ATD:
Wednesday Preparty: 5€
Thursday Preparty: 15€
Friday Main Party: 25€
Saturday Main Party: 25€
Sunday Main Party: 25€
Tickets soon to come:
- Beginners Bootcamp Thursday
- Headmovement Intensive Friday
- BachaZouk Pass (Beginners bootcamp, Headmovement
- Intensives (Saturday Intensives & Saturday Bachata Floor)
- Lambada Pass (Sunday Intensives & Sunday Lambada Floor)
🎫 https://buytickets.at/zoukcologne/1733254
🤑 --- Discounts --- 🤑
All discount codes are only applicable to the Fullpass and cannot be combined.
10€ Group Discounts:
- Gather a group of at least 6 people and send all 6 names + email address to [email protected] and we will send your discount code so each of you can book your individual ticket with 10€ discount with the code
10€ Community Leader / Teacher Discount
- If you are a Brazilian Zouk teacher and want to build a group with your students: you will receive 2 party passes free of charge If you bring 5 participants to the Cologne Zouk Festival. If you bring 10 or more participants, you will receive 2 free full passes instead. Participants who use your code will receive a €10 discount on the full pass. Please send an email address to [email protected] and we will send your discount code so each of you can book your individual ticket with 10€ discount with the code
10€ MAC Discount:
- If you are an approved MAC instructor please send an email with proof (screenshot of your profile on the MAC homepage) to [email protected] and we will send your discount code.
10€ Intermediate Discount:
- If you are BZDC intermediate please send an email with proof (screenshot of your profile on the BZDC homepage) to [email protected] and we will send your discount code.
20€ Advanced Discount
- If you are BZDC Advanced please send an email with proof (screenshot of your profile on the BZDC homepage) to [email protected] and we will send your discount code.
Teacher
- If you have ever taught on any ZoukCologne event please send an email to [email protected] and we can see what we can do for your discount.
📩--- Questions & Communication --- 📩
If you have any questions, these are the 3 fastest ways to get your answer, because we have a team that helps answering all of these channels:
- email to [email protected]
- message inside our WhatsApp group "ZoukCologne Events"
- message to our instagram "ZoukCologne"
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Event Venue
Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 40, 50354 Hürth, Deutschland, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 40, 50354 Hürth, Deutschland, Hürth, Germany
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