Fusion dance

Fusion is a junction point, a unity of all modern couple dances

Fusion welcomes experienced dancers with any background: Blues, Tango, West Coast Swing, Rumba, Salsa, Bachata, Zouk, Kizomba or any others. Fusion is a meeting point and a connection for all of them.

Also Fusion connects couple dances with soloes, like Ballet, Extatic, Tribal, Hip Hop or Contact Improvisation.

How Fusion was created?

Fusion is a product of evolution. Dancers all around the world were reaching the limits of their dance styles. Instead of switching to another one, many started to bring in techniques and styles of other dances into their own.

Expading the boundaries lead to blurring the edge between different dances, drifting from original authencity to something new. At this time dancers also discovered that despite many significant differences there are ways to make their dance compatible with anothers.

That 'compatibility' is a foundation on which Fusion exists. Dances were evolving for long time, like branches of a tree grown on the common roots of Folk and Classical historical dances. Fusion is a way to find something that unites all of them again.

So it's not a creation of a single person or a group, but a result of some global evolution, lead by independent experienced dancers around the World. After some evolutionary phases when new dances were labeled with legacy name and some prefix like 'New Style', 'Neo', Urban' or 'Modern' it came to a common agreement to name this mix of styles should be called Fusion.

Does Fusion have any rules or required techniques?

Dancers like to state that Fusion has no rules and that's quite close to the truth. It still allows dancers of completely different backgrounds to connect and dance together.

But to understand each other better, to create something beautiful and inspire each other, some specific common body language is still neccessary.

Fusion was created by dancers who were already experienced enough to reach the limits of their original single style. Who got bored by the same repetitions and legacy rules. Who needed more to express themselves. They made an alloy not out of nothing, but by melting together many, many proven components.

Thereby Fusion uses best techniques taken from all the other dances. And it was found that they could be mixed in a way that makes dancers of different styles compatible with each other

And the same as with any other couple dance, or even more, Fusion is about safety, comfort and pleasure of dancing for both partners. That also requires some rules and techniques to be learnt.

To make dances compatible, safe and pleasant, some basic techinques and rules are really neccessary.

What techinques are we talking about?

These techinques could be split in four sets:

They are supposed to be learnt in dances of different styles or in specific workshops.

There are also common rules of conduct that consist of courtesy, safety, both physical and moral and respect to the personal borders and inclusiveness, and of course freedom.

Fusion for beginners

Fusion welcomes the beginners of any styles, but it is supposed that they will learn from their dances.

Learning Fusion is easy, people could stat dancing from a scratch using their intuitive understanding. At the same time, dancing without basic techniques could be unpleasant or even traumatical. So what serves as an excuse for the very beginners but doesn't work the same for those who continue dancing without learning.

What is the music of Fusion?

There are no strict rules or a special style. But as Fusion was built by and for experienced dancedrs, it tends to complex melodies from interesting pop vocals to remixed classic instrumental music. Sometimes it could drift to New Age or contrary to some Hip-hop or Rock. It's easier to state what is excluded: simplified, primitive beat-and-loop based music.