Levels

You are towards the beginning of your fusion journey and are excited to build a strong bedrock of knowledge centering musical understanding, body awareness, and key partnered movement techniques.

These classes will focus on adding ease, accuracy, and confidence to your dancing and will move at a slightly slower pace, with plenty of time for questions and reiteration of material.

Curriculum Goals:

• Developing a deeper understanding of body mechanics and how to move from your core, use the floor, and reduce injury to self and partner

• Increasing comfort dancing to a wider range of musical styles and tempos

• Refining lead & follow mechanics to improve communication and reduce noise in partnership

• Introducing some broad movement patterns from common base dances in Fusion

• Growing comfort with traveling and dynamic movement while maintaining floor craft skills

• Understanding 3-5 embrace frameworks and when & where to use them

We recommend this level for dancers who have started fusion dancing since the pandemic, are exclusively fusion dancers, or don't have access to consistent participation in a dance scene locally.

You are ready to launch your dance to the next level by expanding your movement vocabulary, combination techniques, and mode switching abilities.

These classes will introduce you to common patterns, musicality concepts, and aesthetics from other dance styles while focusing on integrating new material in a fusion container.

Curriculum Goals:

• Developing an understanding of your habitual movement patterns and begin exploring how to move beyond them

• Increasing your familiarity & comfort with mode switching, defined as the ability to adopt distinct styling and rhythmic patterning from multiple dance styles and combine them in one dance

• Refining your sensitivity to your partner and quality of connection

• Expanding your vocabulary and techniques from various common base dances in Fusion

We recommend this level for dancers who have solid experience in at least one partnered dance style besides fusion, or who have been actively training their fusion dancing with techniques from specific styles for the last year or more.

You have been dancing for a while and are ready for a challenge. You want your learning experience at Hi-Fi to push you past the edges of what you know you can do into a new level of creativity and refinement.

These classes will take you deeper into techniques and movements from specific dances and some may require previous knowledge of certian dances or moves.

Curriculum Goals:

• Developing your ability to break out of your habitual movement patterns and consciously choose new options

• Adding depth and subtlety to your mode switching

• Refining your quality of movement, lines and shapes, and quality of connection

• Expanding and tighten up your vocabulary and techniques as a fusion dancer

We recommend this level for dancers who have strong experience in 2+ partnered styles besides fusion, are excited about fast-paced class material, and have some kind of dedicated dance practice.

You have a rich understanding of 3+ partnered styles besides fusion and want to learn more complex and subtle ways to combine them. You know how to integrate new material into your own dancing and are excited to expand your ability to mode switch cleanly.

These classes focus on learning advanced concepts that tie multiple moves or techniques together and refining the clean execution of your foundational movements. Classes will be moving quickly, assuming you have an understanding of different rhythmic timestamps, and can quickly pick up footwork and patterns. Participating in this level requires attending an in-person audition on Saturday morning of the event.

Curriculum Goals:

• Developing your ability to consciously choose options while dancing that break you out of your habitual movement patterns

• Understanding the common threads between dances and how to use that knowledge while dancing

• Refining your basics, lines and shapes, and quality of movement

• Experimenting, playing hard, failing, trying again!

Meta classes focus on dance-adjacent topics and skills, and are open to dancers of all levels.

We define "dance-adjacent" as themes that are relevant to our dance and scene, but do not necessarily include movement-based material. Themes like dance history, organizing skills, anti-racism & accessibility work, and more are covered in these classes.

Curriculum Goals

• Creating containers for important cultural conversations to be facilitated and engaged in by interested community members

• Sharing resources, tools, and knowledge to assist the continued growth and evolution of the fusion scene