Eddy Vents (Edson Monteiro) is a Guinea-Bissau born

dance scholar, cultural historian, with extensive presence

and voice in the Kizomba and Semba world. With over

seventeen years of global teaching and research, he has

worked across all continents, bridging Afro-Atlantic

dance culture with critical, historical, and pedagogical

inquiry.

Coming from a country shaped by Creole culture, Gumbé

rhythms, and Lusophone-African circulation, Eddy brings

trans-African and trans-diasporic perspective to Kizomba.

His work approaches dance not as a collection of steps,

but as a cultural system shaped by colonial rupture,

urban Angola, Caribbean circulation, DJ culture, diaspora,

and power.

This book is one of the tangible results of decades of lived

experience, teaching, archival research, and critical

reflection. It does not seek to tell people how to dance, it

seeks to explain what they are already dancing inside of.