https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/2019/instructors daily 0.75 2024-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1565978980506-2Q5CZX2H9QTRFQDF73DH/Andrew+Smith.jpeg Instructors Teaching internationally for over a decade, Andrew still wears the same pair of dance shoes he bought after falling in love with social dance at the end of high school. He draws upon his experience in many dances to inspire and challenge his students in classes around the world. He brings a balanced focus to technique, body mechanics, spirit, and creativity and strives to create a positive, safe learning environment. In his spare time, Andrew is a software engineer for Transparent Classroom (a record-keeping system for Montessori teachers) and nerds out about environmental sustainability. He loves tea, dark chocolate, and bicycles. Visit https://buff.ly/2MSVIKT for more info. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1567020339068-N0KBDIB7CWMD4S6G8GGA/Shantala.JPG Instructors With over 20 years of expertise in solo and partner dancing, Shantala has traveled all over the world sharing versatile concepts, bridging communities of West Coast Swing, Blues/Fusion, Consent Culture, Self-Love, Empowerment & Dance Wellness. Shantala encourages refined techniques, tools and practices of embodied language, connection and communication for self-expression & partnership. She is a master of her crafts who brings the sauce, but within a liberatory lens-giving space for one’s full humanness. In her dance, she has an infectious way of elevating her compadres into joy, ease and groundedness. Shantala is here to inspire, empower, connect and transform with the magic and medicine that is dance!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1566491054274-YPYUVYQ26RSV18T56A2E/Vanessa.jpg Instructors Vanessa Yxcea Corpuz (ick-see-yuh core-puzz) has danced fusion for 10 years, mostly in California and Texas. She's also organized Dallas, Texas' first fusion weekends: Dallas Fusion Reaction (DFRX) and Texas Fusion Experience (TexFX), both in their second year in 2019. Vanessa started partner dancing in 2009 in the San Francisco Bay Area vintage ballroom scene, but shortly fell in love with fusion! She moved to Dallas in 2013, started hosting a fusion social in 2017, and teaching a weekly fusion class in 2018. As a newer face on the national fusion circuit, she’s taught or DJed in about a dozen cities and half a dozen states in the past two years. High-Fidelity will be her first time coming to Seattle as an instructor! Although her true-dance-love is fusion, she also enjoys dancing (in no particular order) west coast swing, urban kiz, tarraxa, zouk, blues, east coast swing, lindy, argentine tango, progressive country, contact improv, salsa, bachata, ecstatic dance, waltz and other vintage ballroom dances. Vanessa describes her lead style as "elemental femme," her follow style as "tiger ninja serendipity," and her switch style as "benevolent anarchist." Some of her distinctive attributes as a social dancer are surprising yet smooth switches & hijacks, creative points of contact (especially utilizing the legs and feet), and total body musicality. She loves to lead, follow, and switch, please ask her to dance anytime! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1569798336428-VFCIHNW3UDJATR697TFF/Ariana+photo.png Instructors Communication, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Policy consultant currently based in Seattle. She has worked in the areas of consent, communication, empathy, and social justice all over the world, from grassroots LGBTQ+ initiatives for rural youth to policy writing and training for major corporations. She is an avid, life-long dancer and can be found running the safety team on the board of Savoy Swing Club. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1569798753283-SJSR1Q16SP6WQAU4499L/consent-academy-sticker_green-url.jpg Instructors The Consent Academy is an educational collective based out of Seattle, WA. Our mission is to teach consent in all of its complexity, aspects, and potential. With over 50 years of education experience collectively, our approach incorporates disciplines of psychology, sociology, public health, psychotherapy, and personal coaching to create a systemic view of how consent impacts everyone from the bedroom to the boardroom. We believe consent is part of everyday life and its practice builds stronger, safer, and more connected communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1565979446167-W04Q2Y519KG7OSYDTW8I/Heri+and+Nika.jpg Instructors Together Heriberto (Heri for short) and Nika have a combined dance experience of over 27 years in both lead and follow roles. They share a love for dance and teaching that allows them to interact with students in a unique way. Their understanding of the differences between the styles makes them very adept at solving problems students might encounter across different platforms of dance. They dance over 30 different styles proficiently (both social and competitive) and because of they diverse dance background they are sought after everywhere they go. Heri and Nika have been a part of Viva Dance Studio in Cleveland Ohio for the past three years. They are constantly seeking to share their knowledge of dance with students for all walks of dance and life. They enjoy traveling and quite possibly run on nothing but coffee most of the time, because they don't want to miss a moment of dancing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1565978479907-MXIAJBLZGNM968MN1V3T/Emily+Webb.jpg Instructors In 1996 Emily Webb began her love affair with partner dance. Through the years Emily has studied Tango, Swing, Salsa, Blues, and Fusion dance with some of the top instructors in the world. Today Tango and Fusion remain Emily's greatest dance loves. Thousands of students across the US and Canada have benefited from Emily's dynamic and interactive teaching style. Through her years of teaching experience Emily has learned to make even the most complex movements simple and build them from the ground up. This means you will not only look good while you dance, but feel great to your partners too! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1566491626818-RZM6X7DJHY04P3K5RVUQ/Emiliano+Headshot+3_4+face.jpg Instructors [Philosophy] Dance is a conversation between the music, the space, my partner, and me. It’s important to me that I am listening just as much as I am initiating any movements from within. As a dancer I love exploring quality movements and ideas within the music and partnership. As a teacher, I encourage my students to have high quality movements through the understanding of their body and how it relates to their partner. I strive for students to find the joy in the music by learning different ways to listen and play. [Background] I started to dance in 2000 with East Coast swing then moved to Lindy Hop shortly after that. A few years later I stumbled on Blues while at PittStop Lindy Hop, which allowed me to discover a whole new world of movements and music. Around the same time Fusion was taking off in Philadelphia at an event called JetLag which played world music. My imagination was set on fire with exposure to so many different genres of music and trying to figure out how to dance to all of them. I felt encouraged to fuse together familiar dance movements with my partner’s ideas and the specific cultural sound of the music. It was a way to create something new and different for every single song. I went to the first Fusion Exchange in 2007 which both validated the dance journey I had taken so far and also introduced me to new ideas on how to approach Fusion. I continue to add to my dance repertoire and explore the ways that different cultures and communities move to their music then discover ways to fuse those movements and ideas within my dance. [Teaching Highlights] • Fusion Exchange • Seattle Fusion Festival • DJ Experiment • European Blues Invasion • Mission Fusion Extravaganza • Blues Recess • Motley Hue • Many others! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1566491265666-KKHNW9VQ0R6WSY4XL4WX/Mark.jpg Instructors Mark has been dancing for much of his life. His social dancing career started with lindy & blues in 2005 he began teaching shortly thereafter. He co-founded a still-running weekly venue, helped organize dozens of events, and runs a few of his own. In recent years he has dedicated his study to the emerging forms and conventions of “fusion” dance and is eager to explore and advance that movement via quality teaching throughout the world. He has taught at multiple events spanning four continents and in two languages. His constant goal is to make the impossible easy and the easy look impossible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1569798315606-1Y4S4W3UA1W7IWWU2DD9/LARA.jpg Instructors Lara-Ashley Monroe is an advocate for healthy living through physical, mental and emotional awareness and promotes strong relationships through respect and consent. After finishing her M.A. in England, she has spent several years working as a management consultant helping teams to recognize areas of lowered efficiency, improve processes and encourage personal and team growth. It is her enthusiasm for working in complex situations that has led her to teaching consent and exploring innovative ways to approach this topic. Lara-Ashley feels consent is the basis of every interaction we have; from conversations about food at the kitchen table to discussions of corporate targets in the boardroom, consent is the conversation we collectively need to have, with all of its intricacies and complexities, to become better neighbors, parents, bosses and partners. Working with the dance community is a particular enjoyment for Lara-Ashley as she is active herself in the blues and fusion dance communities after competing for several years at the regional level in tap and jazz. The nuances of consent contained within dance have always been of considerable interest for Lara-Ashley and she relishes the opportunity to discuss these facets in classes and discussion groups. This is Lara-Ashley's third year with the Consent Academy where she has led a wide range of classes for diverse audiences, spoken at Seattle Pacific University and is one of the authors of a forth-coming book on consent, The Consent Primer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1565979446167-W04Q2Y519KG7OSYDTW8I/Heri+and+Nika.jpg Instructors Together Heriberto (Heri for short) and Nika have a combined dance experience of over 27 years in both lead and follow roles. They share a love for dance and teaching that allows them to interact with students in a unique way. Their understanding of the differences between the styles makes them very adept at solving problems students might encounter across different platforms of dance. They dance over 30 different styles proficiently (both social and competitive) and because of they diverse dance background they are sought after everywhere they go. Heri and Nika have been a part of Viva Dance Studio in Cleveland Ohio for the past three years. They are constantly seeking to share their knowledge of dance with students for all walks of dance and life. They enjoy traveling and quite possibly run on nothing but coffee most of the time, because they don't want to miss a moment of dancing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1566491265666-KKHNW9VQ0R6WSY4XL4WX/Mark.jpg Instructors Mark has been dancing for much of his life. His social dancing career started with lindy & blues in 2005 he began teaching shortly thereafter. He co-founded a still-running weekly venue, helped organize dozens of events, and runs a few of his own. In recent years he has dedicated his study to the emerging forms and conventions of “fusion” dance and is eager to explore and advance that movement via quality teaching throughout the world. He has taught at multiple events spanning four continents and in two languages. His constant goal is to make the impossible easy and the easy look impossible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1569798753283-SJSR1Q16SP6WQAU4499L/consent-academy-sticker_green-url.jpg Instructors The Consent Academy is an educational collective based out of Seattle, WA. Our mission is to teach consent in all of its complexity, aspects, and potential. With over 50 years of education experience collectively, our approach incorporates disciplines of psychology, sociology, public health, psychotherapy, and personal coaching to create a systemic view of how consent impacts everyone from the bedroom to the boardroom. We believe consent is part of everyday life and its practice builds stronger, safer, and more connected communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1565978479907-MXIAJBLZGNM968MN1V3T/Emily+Webb.jpg Instructors In 1996 Emily Webb began her love affair with partner dance. Through the years Emily has studied Tango, Swing, Salsa, Blues, and Fusion dance with some of the top instructors in the world. Today Tango and Fusion remain Emily's greatest dance loves. Thousands of students across the US and Canada have benefited from Emily's dynamic and interactive teaching style. Through her years of teaching experience Emily has learned to make even the most complex movements simple and build them from the ground up. This means you will not only look good while you dance, but feel great to your partners too! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1569798315606-1Y4S4W3UA1W7IWWU2DD9/LARA.jpg Instructors Lara-Ashley Monroe is an advocate for healthy living through physical, mental and emotional awareness and promotes strong relationships through respect and consent. After finishing her M.A. in England, she has spent several years working as a management consultant helping teams to recognize areas of lowered efficiency, improve processes and encourage personal and team growth. It is her enthusiasm for working in complex situations that has led her to teaching consent and exploring innovative ways to approach this topic. Lara-Ashley feels consent is the basis of every interaction we have; from conversations about food at the kitchen table to discussions of corporate targets in the boardroom, consent is the conversation we collectively need to have, with all of its intricacies and complexities, to become better neighbors, parents, bosses and partners. Working with the dance community is a particular enjoyment for Lara-Ashley as she is active herself in the blues and fusion dance communities after competing for several years at the regional level in tap and jazz. The nuances of consent contained within dance have always been of considerable interest for Lara-Ashley and she relishes the opportunity to discuss these facets in classes and discussion groups. This is Lara-Ashley's third year with the Consent Academy where she has led a wide range of classes for diverse audiences, spoken at Seattle Pacific University and is one of the authors of a forth-coming book on consent, The Consent Primer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1565978980506-2Q5CZX2H9QTRFQDF73DH/Andrew+Smith.jpeg Instructors Teaching internationally for over a decade, Andrew still wears the same pair of dance shoes he bought after falling in love with social dance at the end of high school. He draws upon his experience in many dances to inspire and challenge his students in classes around the world. He brings a balanced focus to technique, body mechanics, spirit, and creativity and strives to create a positive, safe learning environment. In his spare time, Andrew is a software engineer for Transparent Classroom (a record-keeping system for Montessori teachers) and nerds out about environmental sustainability. He loves tea, dark chocolate, and bicycles. Visit https://buff.ly/2MSVIKT for more info. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1566491626818-RZM6X7DJHY04P3K5RVUQ/Emiliano+Headshot+3_4+face.jpg Instructors [Philosophy] Dance is a conversation between the music, the space, my partner, and me. It’s important to me that I am listening just as much as I am initiating any movements from within. As a dancer I love exploring quality movements and ideas within the music and partnership. As a teacher, I encourage my students to have high quality movements through the understanding of their body and how it relates to their partner. I strive for students to find the joy in the music by learning different ways to listen and play. [Background] I started to dance in 2000 with East Coast swing then moved to Lindy Hop shortly after that. A few years later I stumbled on Blues while at PittStop Lindy Hop, which allowed me to discover a whole new world of movements and music. Around the same time Fusion was taking off in Philadelphia at an event called JetLag which played world music. My imagination was set on fire with exposure to so many different genres of music and trying to figure out how to dance to all of them. I felt encouraged to fuse together familiar dance movements with my partner’s ideas and the specific cultural sound of the music. It was a way to create something new and different for every single song. I went to the first Fusion Exchange in 2007 which both validated the dance journey I had taken so far and also introduced me to new ideas on how to approach Fusion. I continue to add to my dance repertoire and explore the ways that different cultures and communities move to their music then discover ways to fuse those movements and ideas within my dance. [Teaching Highlights] • Fusion Exchange • Seattle Fusion Festival • DJ Experiment • European Blues Invasion • Mission Fusion Extravaganza • Blues Recess • Motley Hue • Many others! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1569798336428-VFCIHNW3UDJATR697TFF/Ariana+photo.png Instructors Communication, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Policy consultant currently based in Seattle. She has worked in the areas of consent, communication, empathy, and social justice all over the world, from grassroots LGBTQ+ initiatives for rural youth to policy writing and training for major corporations. She is an avid, life-long dancer and can be found running the safety team on the board of Savoy Swing Club. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1566491054274-YPYUVYQ26RSV18T56A2E/Vanessa.jpg Instructors Vanessa Yxcea Corpuz (ick-see-yuh core-puzz) has danced fusion for 10 years, mostly in California and Texas. She's also organized Dallas, Texas' first fusion weekends: Dallas Fusion Reaction (DFRX) and Texas Fusion Experience (TexFX), both in their second year in 2019. Vanessa started partner dancing in 2009 in the San Francisco Bay Area vintage ballroom scene, but shortly fell in love with fusion! She moved to Dallas in 2013, started hosting a fusion social in 2017, and teaching a weekly fusion class in 2018. As a newer face on the national fusion circuit, she’s taught or DJed in about a dozen cities and half a dozen states in the past two years. High-Fidelity will be her first time coming to Seattle as an instructor! Although her true-dance-love is fusion, she also enjoys dancing (in no particular order) west coast swing, urban kiz, tarraxa, zouk, blues, east coast swing, lindy, argentine tango, progressive country, contact improv, salsa, bachata, ecstatic dance, waltz and other vintage ballroom dances. Vanessa describes her lead style as "elemental femme," her follow style as "tiger ninja serendipity," and her switch style as "benevolent anarchist." Some of her distinctive attributes as a social dancer are surprising yet smooth switches & hijacks, creative points of contact (especially utilizing the legs and feet), and total body musicality. She loves to lead, follow, and switch, please ask her to dance anytime! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1567020339068-N0KBDIB7CWMD4S6G8GGA/Shantala.JPG Instructors With over 20 years of expertise in solo and partner dancing, Shantala has traveled all over the world sharing versatile concepts, bridging communities of West Coast Swing, Blues/Fusion, Consent Culture, Self-Love, Empowerment & Dance Wellness. Shantala encourages refined techniques, tools and practices of embodied language, connection and communication for self-expression & partnership. She is a master of her crafts who brings the sauce, but within a liberatory lens-giving space for one’s full humanness. In her dance, she has an infectious way of elevating her compadres into joy, ease and groundedness. Shantala is here to inspire, empower, connect and transform with the magic and medicine that is dance!! https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/2019/venue daily 0.75 2024-06-07 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/team-2024 daily 0.75 2025-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/599fee73-ee46-471a-b5c1-6e2b3420a390/chocolate_afters.jpeg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Ryeder Dye is a super-villain in your fantasy fusion festival implanting miscreants to lure you into commerce with treats, trinkets and other targeted trans-marsupial creations. She* is an agent of chaos and protector of the vendor-ship guild, guide of commerce, and protector of vendors from capitalistic self-extraction. On a typical weekday morning you can find her plotting against the weather, sipping coffee, and glaring daggers out a window at whatever should pass that is outside of her control. *Despite use of “she” in this bio, please use they/them pronouns when referring to Ryeder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/cdd0906b-a025-49d7-90ab-eaa1c2443191/Alyssa.jpg Core Team 2024 Alyssa’s passion for dance has developed through performing, learning, competing, and teaching many partner and solo dance styles for over 20 years. Her most extensive movement training has been in jazz dance, yoga, and both competitive and social ballroom dances. She especially enjoys the blossoming of creative expression that comes from combining varied dance forms that is fusion dancing. Alyssa has been deeply involved in organizing dance events since jumping in head first with the 2019 inauguration of High-Fidelity Fusion. She is excited to have a greater opportunity to help foster welcoming, educational, and inspiring fusion dance spaces as a Director of Hi-Fi 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/47a96622-8e2f-41de-96e5-2099fbca6542/373053952_1022599162415236_7139390157881843732_n.jpg Core Team 2024 Eliza found partner dancing at 16 in Santa Fe, where she was lucky enough to start Lindy Hop, Blues and this new thing called not-yet-called “Fusion” around the same time. For the last 15 years, she had continued to dance and study all three, folding in Charleston, Balboa, Vernacular Jazz, Juke Blues, Struttin’, Drag Blues, African Dances from Benin and Guinea, Micro Fusion, sprinkled with a little House, Tango and Modern Afrodance and a new love of West Coast Swing. Her work is built on a foundation of training in Ballet, Modern and Broadway Jazz from childhood and a BFA in Theater Directing from Cornish College of the Arts, with 25 years of performance experience and 10+ years of choreography. She found a new joy in dance organizing in 2019 with the creation of Hi-Fi, bringing 10 years of theater and burlesque producing and directing into the dance world. She now leads a monthly event called Revival Fusion, as well as teaching and DJing. She’s thrilled to bring this cumulative experience to Hi-Fi 2024, to make some magic with such a truly fantastic team and incredible Co-Director! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/d705c9a7-87b7-4212-9fdc-ac8cbb4b4ef6/Eleanor.jpg Core Team 2024 Eleanor grew up in the ballet studio and first learned to social dance outdoors in the Appalachian mountains. She fell in love with blues and fusion in 2016, but the more she danced, the more she noticed interconnected scene-wide challenges in culture, structural power, and belonging. To address these challenges she started facilitating group workshops on social justice, anti-racism, and community in 2018, and has since privately consulted various fusion organizations on their policies and team design. In Fall 2023 she completed her master's degree in Transformative Social Change, a multidisciplinary program designed to support liberation-oriented practitioners. Eleanor brings insight and presence to all her roles – dancer, teacher, DJ, facilitator – and is excited to work her magic at Hi-Fi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/180e1759-20cd-43b9-8cb8-a07d17c904f5/Tenae.jpg Core Team 2024 Tenae has been active in Seattle’s Partner Dance Scene since 2010, and has danced through many genres over the years, including West Coast Swing, Tango, Blues, Fusion, Micro, and most recently, Kizomba. She started DJing for Fusion and Micro dances in 2016, and hosting and organizing in 2017. Tenae was a part of the organizing team for HiFi 2019, and has been on organizer teams for Mu&I, Sound Fusion, and Revival Fusion, and currently leads Nuance: Seattle Micro. Tenae is especially excited to be lending her time and energy towards making this amazing event happen in 2024! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/5836502e-af41-402b-b2e5-9c061236c14b/305119165_1131840980873754_1127573831933303033_n.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Michael is a software developer, part-time cowboy, and estranged theater nerd, who likes to dance. By day, he writes code for Elmo. By night, he stewards technology, privacy, and digital safety for our beloved Hi-Fi community. Some keys to Michael’s heart include: big hugs, sleepy dances, negronis, smokey tea, nerdery of all kinds, stories of cool places you’ve visited, and dreams of worlds to be. He’s pretty shy, but rest assured, he’s heckin excited to meet you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/ad5cc018-2ce3-4e39-850d-19b8f18647e5/Emma.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Emma has been in fusion since 2014 (going on a decade) and fell in love at first dip with the dance and the community. She started in Bellingham and has made a home community in Seattle. Emma is relatively new to dance event work but has 3 years of nonprofit volunteer coordinating under her belt. In this work she values fostering growth mindsets, mutually supportive environments, and accessibility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/591212af-1125-4e84-b101-f9103f816a90/Rose.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Rose Hawley-Perry has been dancing since her teens, through the 80’s wave and into the 90s with Country line-dancing and two-steps. She fell in love with West Coast Swing when Scot McKay introduced her to his friendly Wednesday night dance. Not only did she love the dance but the community as well. Initially, her path was advancing through both social dance and competition, but found herself volunteering to help out the events more often, predominantly with Seattle Easter Swing starting in 2013. She joined the Easter Swing leadership team in 2017, working in numerous roles. In 2020 she was Assistant Director, and was finally asked to step in as Event Director in 2022 growing it to over 1,000 attendees in 2023. But, her efforts aren't exclusive to Easter Swing. You can find her volunteering all over the West Coast from Vancouver, BC to Seattle to Portland, to San Francisco, to Los Angeles. It isher passion for dance that keeps her involved, but it is her passion for the people that keeps her doing it so well. And the people in the community might know her for her ability to run a well-planned dance event, but they love her for her warmth, kindness, and compassion. Rose recently returned to dancing fusion and the people once again have drawn her in. She is pleased to join the High-Fidelity Fusion core team as the On-Site Operations Manager. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/2d83fede-7b00-408b-acb4-14a2411e73d0/Ben.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Ben Long the Finance Director hails from Portland, the best smelling city on the west coast. He started dancing as one of those Lindy Hoppers, not 100% sure that Y2K wouldn’t truncate his new passion. Luckily, it didn’t. And so years later he found himself in the room at the inception of Fusion. Ben has a perpetual hunger to build things: software, companies, Legos, and dance scenes. He’s pumped to be a part of the HiFI team and assume his role as a lawful evil capitalist. You can find Ben in his other roles as: Ben Long the DJ, Ben Long the Entrepreneur, and Ben Long the Political Wonk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/5eb96471-23a0-4dc9-b3f4-7eebab353f59/Matt.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/b59f86c7-2ef9-4b23-a98b-c6f11289299c/David+Keogh.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out David Keogh is a Seattle-based dancer, musician, and filmmaker. David started with Lindy Hop and Blues dance before falling in love with Fusion over a decade ago. David plays music at social dance festivals and films dancers doing dance-y things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/8575b2ca-7c41-4c38-9167-4c2269940349/Tivi.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Tivi is an acro-yogi, swing fusion dancer, Industrial-Organizational psychology researcher, and caffeine enthusiast, hailing from San Antonio, Texas. As our Director of People Experience, she works tirelessly to make sure everyone in our community is welcomed, delighted, accommodated, safe, fed, heard, and appreciated. Chances are, you’ve probably already had a conversation or two with Tivi. If not, you’re in for a treat. Feed her chocolate, earl grey tea, or cheesy noodles, and you’ll be immediate besties. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/15ab20cf-25fa-4090-a7c7-45764c6b1c2b/CC.jpeg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out CC is a nomadic globe trotter, who discovered partner dancing in 2005 and quickly became enamored! However, it wasn’t until she was introduced to the fusion community in 2011 that she first experienced enthusiastic encouragement to explore social partner dancing without the restriction of a particular genre of music, movement aesthetic, or pattern of steps. Free to focus on the fundamental principles of partner communication and musical interpretation, she relished the depth of connection and understanding which can be passed between friends and strangers who might have completely disparate dance backgrounds. CC boasts an extensive background as both a weekly and annual event organizer, dance instructor, and an event coordinator for DJs, teachers and volunteers. She is also a seasoned house party hostess, enthusiastic supporter of late night escapades, and an adventure instigator extraordinaire. If you are excited to get into some mischief, CC invites you to stay up late, then even later! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/ea82dc39-7a04-4aee-b4de-f7ec7e8c4fe9/Logan.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Logan is a Lighting Artist for Disney Animation. Logan dances Blues, Lindy, Tango, and Kizomba. When he is not dancing you can find Logan adventuring from a camper van somewhere in the mountains: backpacking, climbing, or cave-diving, with a camera in-hand. The easiest way to get to know Logan is to ask him to make you a latte or steamer at a dance event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/6bd952eb-a816-4f7d-8f50-2dd430b0f697/Cricket.JPG Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Cricket has been dancing ever since they could walk or skitter or whatever bugs do. Their movement background consists of a variety of styles including gymnastics, cheerleading, Lindy Hop, and their current home dance of West Coast Swing. They have loved being able to bring this background into the fusion scene, as well as bring in the assortment of music they have been collecting over the years with their sometimes-chaotic DJ sets. Cricket is so incredibly excited to put their Stage Management degree to use and work on this amazing project with this fantastic group of people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/4a9d753a-654c-4015-8394-662c560fecba/Kyle.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out An energetic, electric, enthusiastic entity, Kyle is a Fusion Organizer and DJ hailing from Florida! Having gotten addicted to partner dance through Lindy Hop and Blues back in 2012, Kyle quickly discovered the world of Fusion , and dove deeper and deeper into it while picking up as many partner dance styles as possible, eventually traveling the country to entice dance floors such that they couldn’t help but move to his fusion sets as DJ ⚡Volter - and also becoming an organizer- helping to found and run Fusion Orlando in Florida, while getting sucked further into the Fusion world. Having been taken over by the magic that was High-Fidelity, Kyle is ecstatic to serve as the High Fidelity Fusion 2 ambassador program lead- or in other words, Hi-Fi’s electric cool cat collector, seeking out and inviting cool cats wherever they are and whatever they do - (this includes YOU of course) - to come share in the epic party and delight that is High Fidelity Fusion 2! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/545db582-db46-474e-8648-12ff7891a7a1/Milla.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Milla is a dancer and event organizer based in Portland, OR. They love creating containers for connection and find that at the center of all of their work in the world. Milla strives to bring a sense of play and intimacy to all of the spaces they create and are excited to bring their previous experience from organizing Hot Night Fusion Weekend & Myrtlewood Fusion Intensive to their role on the Hi-Fi team! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/cdd0906b-a025-49d7-90ab-eaa1c2443191/Alyssa.jpg Core Team 2024 Alyssa’s passion for dance has developed through performing, learning, competing, and teaching many partner and solo dance styles for over 20 years. Her most extensive movement training has been in jazz dance, yoga, and both competitive and social ballroom dances. She especially enjoys the blossoming of creative expression that comes from combining varied dance forms that is fusion dancing. Alyssa has been deeply involved in organizing dance events since jumping in head first with the 2019 inauguration of High-Fidelity Fusion. She is excited to have a greater opportunity to help foster welcoming, educational, and inspiring fusion dance spaces as a Director of Hi-Fi 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/5eb96471-23a0-4dc9-b3f4-7eebab353f59/Matt.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/ea82dc39-7a04-4aee-b4de-f7ec7e8c4fe9/Logan.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Logan is a Lighting Artist for Disney Animation. Logan dances Blues, Lindy, Tango, and Kizomba. When he is not dancing you can find Logan adventuring from a camper van somewhere in the mountains: backpacking, climbing, or cave-diving, with a camera in-hand. The easiest way to get to know Logan is to ask him to make you a latte or steamer at a dance event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/15ab20cf-25fa-4090-a7c7-45764c6b1c2b/CC.jpeg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out CC is a nomadic globe trotter, who discovered partner dancing in 2005 and quickly became enamored! However, it wasn’t until she was introduced to the fusion community in 2011 that she first experienced enthusiastic encouragement to explore social partner dancing without the restriction of a particular genre of music, movement aesthetic, or pattern of steps. Free to focus on the fundamental principles of partner communication and musical interpretation, she relished the depth of connection and understanding which can be passed between friends and strangers who might have completely disparate dance backgrounds. CC boasts an extensive background as both a weekly and annual event organizer, dance instructor, and an event coordinator for DJs, teachers and volunteers. She is also a seasoned house party hostess, enthusiastic supporter of late night escapades, and an adventure instigator extraordinaire. If you are excited to get into some mischief, CC invites you to stay up late, then even later! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/545db582-db46-474e-8648-12ff7891a7a1/Milla.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Milla is a dancer and event organizer based in Portland, OR. They love creating containers for connection and find that at the center of all of their work in the world. Milla strives to bring a sense of play and intimacy to all of the spaces they create and are excited to bring their previous experience from organizing Hot Night Fusion Weekend & Myrtlewood Fusion Intensive to their role on the Hi-Fi team! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/5836502e-af41-402b-b2e5-9c061236c14b/305119165_1131840980873754_1127573831933303033_n.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Michael is a software developer, part-time cowboy, and estranged theater nerd, who likes to dance. By day, he writes code for Elmo. By night, he stewards technology, privacy, and digital safety for our beloved Hi-Fi community. Some keys to Michael’s heart include: big hugs, sleepy dances, negronis, smokey tea, nerdery of all kinds, stories of cool places you’ve visited, and dreams of worlds to be. He’s pretty shy, but rest assured, he’s heckin excited to meet you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/180e1759-20cd-43b9-8cb8-a07d17c904f5/Tenae.jpg Core Team 2024 Tenae has been active in Seattle’s Partner Dance Scene since 2010, and has danced through many genres over the years, including West Coast Swing, Tango, Blues, Fusion, Micro, and most recently, Kizomba. She started DJing for Fusion and Micro dances in 2016, and hosting and organizing in 2017. Tenae was a part of the organizing team for HiFi 2019, and has been on organizer teams for Mu&I, Sound Fusion, and Revival Fusion, and currently leads Nuance: Seattle Micro. Tenae is especially excited to be lending her time and energy towards making this amazing event happen in 2024! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/47a96622-8e2f-41de-96e5-2099fbca6542/373053952_1022599162415236_7139390157881843732_n.jpg Core Team 2024 Eliza found partner dancing at 16 in Santa Fe, where she was lucky enough to start Lindy Hop, Blues and this new thing called not-yet-called “Fusion” around the same time. For the last 15 years, she had continued to dance and study all three, folding in Charleston, Balboa, Vernacular Jazz, Juke Blues, Struttin’, Drag Blues, African Dances from Benin and Guinea, Micro Fusion, sprinkled with a little House, Tango and Modern Afrodance and a new love of West Coast Swing. Her work is built on a foundation of training in Ballet, Modern and Broadway Jazz from childhood and a BFA in Theater Directing from Cornish College of the Arts, with 25 years of performance experience and 10+ years of choreography. She found a new joy in dance organizing in 2019 with the creation of Hi-Fi, bringing 10 years of theater and burlesque producing and directing into the dance world. She now leads a monthly event called Revival Fusion, as well as teaching and DJing. She’s thrilled to bring this cumulative experience to Hi-Fi 2024, to make some magic with such a truly fantastic team and incredible Co-Director! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/599fee73-ee46-471a-b5c1-6e2b3420a390/chocolate_afters.jpeg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Ryeder Dye is a super-villain in your fantasy fusion festival implanting miscreants to lure you into commerce with treats, trinkets and other targeted trans-marsupial creations. She* is an agent of chaos and protector of the vendor-ship guild, guide of commerce, and protector of vendors from capitalistic self-extraction. On a typical weekday morning you can find her plotting against the weather, sipping coffee, and glaring daggers out a window at whatever should pass that is outside of her control. *Despite use of “she” in this bio, please use they/them pronouns when referring to Ryeder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/6bd952eb-a816-4f7d-8f50-2dd430b0f697/Cricket.JPG Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Cricket has been dancing ever since they could walk or skitter or whatever bugs do. Their movement background consists of a variety of styles including gymnastics, cheerleading, Lindy Hop, and their current home dance of West Coast Swing. They have loved being able to bring this background into the fusion scene, as well as bring in the assortment of music they have been collecting over the years with their sometimes-chaotic DJ sets. Cricket is so incredibly excited to put their Stage Management degree to use and work on this amazing project with this fantastic group of people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/2d83fede-7b00-408b-acb4-14a2411e73d0/Ben.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Ben Long the Finance Director hails from Portland, the best smelling city on the west coast. He started dancing as one of those Lindy Hoppers, not 100% sure that Y2K wouldn’t truncate his new passion. Luckily, it didn’t. And so years later he found himself in the room at the inception of Fusion. Ben has a perpetual hunger to build things: software, companies, Legos, and dance scenes. He’s pumped to be a part of the HiFI team and assume his role as a lawful evil capitalist. You can find Ben in his other roles as: Ben Long the DJ, Ben Long the Entrepreneur, and Ben Long the Political Wonk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/8575b2ca-7c41-4c38-9167-4c2269940349/Tivi.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Tivi is an acro-yogi, swing fusion dancer, Industrial-Organizational psychology researcher, and caffeine enthusiast, hailing from San Antonio, Texas. As our Director of People Experience, she works tirelessly to make sure everyone in our community is welcomed, delighted, accommodated, safe, fed, heard, and appreciated. Chances are, you’ve probably already had a conversation or two with Tivi. If not, you’re in for a treat. Feed her chocolate, earl grey tea, or cheesy noodles, and you’ll be immediate besties. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/d705c9a7-87b7-4212-9fdc-ac8cbb4b4ef6/Eleanor.jpg Core Team 2024 Eleanor grew up in the ballet studio and first learned to social dance outdoors in the Appalachian mountains. She fell in love with blues and fusion in 2016, but the more she danced, the more she noticed interconnected scene-wide challenges in culture, structural power, and belonging. To address these challenges she started facilitating group workshops on social justice, anti-racism, and community in 2018, and has since privately consulted various fusion organizations on their policies and team design. In Fall 2023 she completed her master's degree in Transformative Social Change, a multidisciplinary program designed to support liberation-oriented practitioners. Eleanor brings insight and presence to all her roles – dancer, teacher, DJ, facilitator – and is excited to work her magic at Hi-Fi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/591212af-1125-4e84-b101-f9103f816a90/Rose.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out Rose Hawley-Perry has been dancing since her teens, through the 80’s wave and into the 90s with Country line-dancing and two-steps. She fell in love with West Coast Swing when Scot McKay introduced her to his friendly Wednesday night dance. Not only did she love the dance but the community as well. Initially, her path was advancing through both social dance and competition, but found herself volunteering to help out the events more often, predominantly with Seattle Easter Swing starting in 2013. She joined the Easter Swing leadership team in 2017, working in numerous roles. In 2020 she was Assistant Director, and was finally asked to step in as Event Director in 2022 growing it to over 1,000 attendees in 2023. But, her efforts aren't exclusive to Easter Swing. You can find her volunteering all over the West Coast from Vancouver, BC to Seattle to Portland, to San Francisco, to Los Angeles. It isher passion for dance that keeps her involved, but it is her passion for the people that keeps her doing it so well. And the people in the community might know her for her ability to run a well-planned dance event, but they love her for her warmth, kindness, and compassion. Rose recently returned to dancing fusion and the people once again have drawn her in. She is pleased to join the High-Fidelity Fusion core team as the On-Site Operations Manager. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/b59f86c7-2ef9-4b23-a98b-c6f11289299c/David+Keogh.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out David Keogh is a Seattle-based dancer, musician, and filmmaker. David started with Lindy Hop and Blues dance before falling in love with Fusion over a decade ago. David plays music at social dance festivals and films dancers doing dance-y things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/4a9d753a-654c-4015-8394-662c560fecba/Kyle.jpg Core Team 2024 - Make it stand out An energetic, electric, enthusiastic entity, Kyle is a Fusion Organizer and DJ hailing from Florida! Having gotten addicted to partner dance through Lindy Hop and Blues back in 2012, Kyle quickly discovered the world of Fusion , and dove deeper and deeper into it while picking up as many partner dance styles as possible, eventually traveling the country to entice dance floors such that they couldn’t help but move to his fusion sets as DJ ⚡Volter - and also becoming an organizer- helping to found and run Fusion Orlando in Florida, while getting sucked further into the Fusion world. Having been taken over by the magic that was High-Fidelity, Kyle is ecstatic to serve as the High Fidelity Fusion 2 ambassador program lead- or in other words, Hi-Fi’s electric cool cat collector, seeking out and inviting cool cats wherever they are and whatever they do - (this includes YOU of course) - to come share in the epic party and delight that is High Fidelity Fusion 2! https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/2019/live-music daily 0.75 2024-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1570146461106-9FEK8VTEIB6UE4N0A3E3/Dante.JPG Live Music https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1570787367977-W4DOX2V3UWGNQF5IIPZ6/IMG_9246.JPG Live Music https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1567468387462-YV2QOIBLNP8JVU7RD5HA/69542885_1186629138205558_6122885684752547840_n.png Live Music https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1567468385107-P4YPEDP9LXWNB5IMHXV6/69537906_372608056749953_7388504446851874816_n.jpg Live Music https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1570787367977-W4DOX2V3UWGNQF5IIPZ6/IMG_9246.JPG Live Music https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1570146461106-9FEK8VTEIB6UE4N0A3E3/Dante.JPG Live Music https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/2019/performance-showcase daily 0.75 2024-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1570426379929-4NCF34KXG6JA8C2PGR45/hi-fi+%281%29.png Performance Showcase https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/1570426379929-4NCF34KXG6JA8C2PGR45/hi-fi+%281%29.png Performance Showcase https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-09-05 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/2019/transportation daily 0.75 2024-06-07 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/2019/event-schedule daily 0.75 2024-06-07 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/2019/class-descriptions daily 0.75 2024-06-07 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/2019/food-guide daily 0.75 2024-06-07 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/policies-2024 daily 0.75 2025-09-06 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/homepage-temp daily 0.75 2024-09-17 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/homepage daily 1.0 2025-09-06 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/showcases daily 0.75 2025-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/3e44b011-519a-4f0d-b275-19df36cfa2ae/2019showcasecover.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ca526079b8fe86e2687aadb/99449f03-5af2-45a3-ad65-58030dea2266/2024showcasecover.jpg https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/transactions daily 0.75 2024-08-30 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/transactions/p/ticket-friday-dance-only monthly 0.5 2019-10-11 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/transactions/p/ticket-sunday-dance-only monthly 0.5 2019-10-11 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/transactions/p/ticket-saturday-dance-only monthly 0.5 2019-10-11 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/transactions/p/dance-only-ticket monthly 0.5 2019-10-11 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/transactions/p/ticket-performance-showcase-only monthly 0.5 2019-10-11 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/transactions/p/redeem-dance-scholarship monthly 0.5 2019-10-05 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/transactions/p/sponsor monthly 0.5 2019-10-11 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/transactions/p/lights-on monthly 0.5 2019-10-11 https://www.highfidelityfusion.com/transactions/p/income-conscious monthly 0.5 2019-10-11