Thank you All!
As the PFX Organizer Team, we would all like to say Thank You. Each and every one of you brought something special and helped to make Portland Fusion Exchange an amazing event.
Photos
Jared Luxenberg took a number of great photos at PFX. Take a look!
Survey
To help make the {*cough*} Fusion Exchange 2010 even better (and figure out where to have it next year), please Fill Out Our Survey and tell us what we did well and where we can improve.
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What Is Fusion?
Fusion is the combination of dances in such a way that allows dancers to use all the techniques, connections, and movements of many dances (in particular lindy hop, blues, argentine tango, soul or west coast). This is a constant communication from lead to follow (and vice versa) that uses the dancers' knowledge of more than one dance to flow from one dance to another (i.e. when leading a boleo style movement inside a blues song, a blues follow without tango training would most likely not loosen her leg and swing it around because she is not as familiar with how her legs should move in the air, whereas a follow with tango training would know exactly what to do with that movement regardless of what dance she was doing) within a song/dance.
Instructors
- Bill Borgida (Austin, TX) - Classic Blues
- Mihai Banulescu (San Francisco, CA) - Blues, Tango, Fusion
- Andrew Sutton (Sacramento, CA) - Just Dance
- Lucky Skillen (NYC) - Blues, Hip Hop
- Lessa Thieme (Seattle, WA) - Blues, Hip Hop
- Brenda Collins (Portland, OR) - Blues
- Ben Long (Portland, OR) - Micro Blues, Fusion
- Jason Isbell & Trina Siebert (Portland, OR) - West Coast, Fusion
- Jeremy & Karissa Lightsmith (Seattle, WA) - Team Building & Partnering, Blues, Fusion
- ...and more to come!