Class Description: 

Come learn how to dance fusion to kizomba music, kizomba to fusion music, and of course kizomba to kizomba! Kizomba is a close embrace dance, and class will involve some close embrace.

Instructor Bio:  

Luella has been organizing fusion dance events for the LGBTQ+ community for 8 years, having co-founded possibly the first explicitly queer partnered fusion dance organization in the world in 2017: QT Fusion Dance. Since 2011, her dance background includes Blues, Bachata, West Coast Swing, Kizomba, Brazilian Zouk, and Lindy Hop. She also loves to DJ and has been gradually developing a new fusion she calls Blueschata. 

Bio:

Amelia (DJ Wild Duck) has been DJing fusion dances in the DC area for the past two years. Her music selection is influenced by her decade of dance experience in fusion, blues, west coast swing, and tango, as well as her love of gothic americana, folk-electronica, and international pop. She plays a combination of old fusion favorites and innovative lesser-known bops, bangers, and jams with driving rhythms and emotive melodics. DJ Wild Duck is a geologist by day, so it is guaranteed that she will rock the house.

Bio: 

Marshall is a fusion and blues dancer, DJ, and retired organizer from Washington, DC, where he is one of the founders of the DC area’s preeminent monthly fusion dance, First Sunday Fusion. Marshall is a believer in the ongoing co-creation of fusion dance as a new art form. He loves seeing dancers connect on the floor and seeks to play multiple genres of music from around the world, mixing old classics with new global bangers—but his sweetest spot is music that keeps you in that floating high where you feel like you could keep dancing forever.