Fusion Dance

Take your dance to the next level or what is known as Fusion Dance.  Fusion Dance is the ability to switch between 2 or more different dance styles in a seamless manner to the same song.  Skill and Mastery in a multitude of different dance styles is normally beneficial but not required to be able to do fusion dance.  Fusion Dance is composed of the different dance styles blended together as one unique dance.

Fusion Dance has been around for a while and come in different forms and flavors with associated names such as the following:

• Line Dancing + West Coast Swing
• Swango (Swing + Argentine Tango)
• Swustle (West Coast Swing + Hustle)
• Salsa + Lindy Hop
• SalTango (Salsa + Argentine Tango)
• BachataTango (Bachata + Argentine Tango)
• Night Club 2-Step (NC2S) + Argentine Tango
• Bachata + WCS + Argentine Tango
• Cha Cha + WCS
• Merengue + Hustle

 

There are different ways of doing Fusion Dance:

• Switching from one dance style to the next style but maintain timing according to the dance style being done.  An example is doing Swustle where you would maintain 6-count (double-triple-triple rhythm) or 8-count (double-triple-double-triple) rhythm when dancing WCS and maintain 3-count  timing when dancing Hustle
• Switching from one dance style to the next style but maintain timing to only one dance style.  An example is doing BachataTango where you would maintain the 4-count (step-step-step-tap) rhythm when dancing bachata and still maintain maintain the same 4-count bachata timing when switching to Argentine Tango.
• Dancing one style to a particular song genre.  An example is doing Swango where you would dance either Swing completely to Tango music (with beats) or dance Argentine Tango completely to Swing music while maintaining the rhythm according to the dance style being done.  Another good example is dancing NC2S to Zouk music.

Below are video clips of the different forms of Fusion Dance:

Tags: Argentine Tango, Bachata, BachataTango, Fusion, Hustle, Line Dancing, Salsa, West Coast Swing