Duo

Our mission

Made by dancers.
Built to last.

We’re dancers who got tired of watching the community scatter across WhatsApp groups and Facebook pages. So we built Duo.

Three years in, we’re still here. Still listening, still improving, still growing with you. We’ve danced for a combined 50+ years across dozens of countries. We know what it feels like to land in a new city and not know where to dance. We know what it’s like to pour everything into an event that half your audience never heard about. We built this because we lived it.

We genuinely believe we can change the dance world and help it grow the right way. This is bigger than an app. And we’re in it for the long run.

Join us.

Our values

Everyone deserves to be seen

No dancer, event, or community should be invisible.

Dance brings people together

Across cultures, ages, religions, and borders. That’s worth protecting.

Not an app, a home

We’re not building a tool. We’re building the place where the global dance world finally comes together.

Built with the community

We build alongside the people we serve, not above them.

Our story

Duo founders

I’ve been dancing since I was eighteen. But it wasn’t until I moved to Brazil that everything changed.

I was dancing twelve, fourteen hours a week at a latin dance school, completely lost in it. Every time I wanted to find a social or an event outside of class, I hit the same wall. No website. No list. Nothing. I’d ask around, follow chains of word of mouth, and more often than not I’d find out too late. People would say: “Oh, last night was incredible, there was this amazing social.” And you’d think: why didn’t I know?

And it wasn’t just dancers. Teachers who had so much to give, but no way to be found. Organizers who poured everything into an event, and half their audience never heard about it. Everyone working so hard, but invisible to each other.

The dance world deserves to exist. All of it. Not just the people who already know the right person.

For seven years, I carried that question. I danced. I taught. I competed. I organized events. I wanted to understand this world from every angle before I tried to change anything.

Then I left corporate. Exhausted, but finally ready.

A friend looked at me and said: “Chantal, that app you always talk about, the one for dancers, it’s such a good idea. Why aren’t you building it?”

So I started. It wasn’t easy. Finding someone to build something this ambitious with you, really build it, with no guarantees, no salary, just belief, is harder than it sounds. Three co-founders who didn’t work out. Then I met Kirill. We matched instantly.

And then something unexpected happened. Organizers started reaching out. Teachers. Dancers from countries I’d never been to. All saying the same thing: “I’ve been waiting for this.”

We’re not here to reinvent dance. We’re here because we love it too much to watch it stay this fragmented. And we’re building this with you.

Chantal

The dancers behind Duo

A team of superheroes who believe the dance world deserves better 💛

Chantal

Chantal 🇫🇷

Co-founder & CEO

The one who got tired of missing events and decided to do something about it. She also teaches Brazilian Zouk and has left a piece of her heart on dance floors across six continents.

Kirill

Kirill 🇱🇻

Co-founder & CTO

He takes the ideas and makes them real. Behind every feature, every screen, every interaction… that’s him. When he’s not coding, you’ll find him on the BZouk floor in Bangkok.

Rasmus

Rasmus 🇩🇰

Product & Growth

Volunteer

He’s built startups before. Now he’s putting that experience to work for Duo. A Brazilian Zouk veteran who travels the world for the dance floor.

Sonia

Sonia 🇷🇴

Product Manager

Volunteer

After seeing the passion put into Duo by the founders, she joined the team to help on the product side. Backed by startup and engineering experience, she wants to make the dancing world a better place. She hasn’t started dancing yet, but it’s now only a matter of time.

Tanel

Tanel 🇵🇱

UX/UI Designer

Volunteer

He makes sure every interaction feels intuitive and every screen is worth coming back to. When he’s not improving the UX, he’s behind the decks dropping Brazilian Zouk sets.

Larissa

Larissa 🇧🇷

Data & Events Coordinator

She makes sure every event in the database is real, clean, and worth your time, so you don’t miss another one. And like Sonia, she’s still a Zouk Baby!

Fabio

Fabio 🇧🇷

Brazil Representative

A full-time dancer living in the heart of Brazilian Zouk: São Paulo. He makes sure the community that started it all feels right at home on Duo.

Next problems on our list

Reviews

You’ve shown up to an event that wasn’t what you expected. Never again.

Map

Because sometimes you just want to see what’s happening around you. Right now.

Ticketing

Find the event, book your spot, show up. All in one place.

Report

Every dancer deserves to feel safe. We’re making sure of it.

Support the project!

We’re a small team with a big vision. Love what we’re building? Here’s how you can help it grow.

Buy us a coffee

We don’t pay ourselves. Every coffee goes straight into the tools that keep Duo running and growing.

Buy us a coffee

Become a volunteer

Got skills? Design, data, community, marketing, social media… bring what you have. We’ll put it to work!

Become a volunteer

Spread the word

Share Duo with your scene. Add your events. Tell a dancer who needs this.

Sometimes the most powerful thing is just showing up and saying: this exists.

Together we go further.Always.

The dance world deserves better than Facebook groups. We got you.

Built out of love. Built for every dancer who ever missed an event.

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