A’LAN ABRUZZO - he/him - San Francisco, CA
A’lan’s DJ journey began in the vibrant swing and blues venues of San Francisco, where he first honed his craft. He became the first music coordinator at Shades in San Francisco, helping to shape the musical landscape of the local dance community. His national debut at Portland Fusion Exchange launched a career that has taken him to nearly every major national-level event, including SDFX, LVFX, SFFX, DFX, MFX, Recess, Seattle Fusion Festival, Albuquerque Fusion Experiment, City in Motion, Emerald City Blues, Mile High Blues, Motley Hue, Mist Connections, BAmF, and Hi-Fi. With 18 years of experience, A’lan brings a depth of musicality and a passion for connection to every set, crafting soundscapes that inspire dancers to explore, play, and connect.
As a dance instructor, A'lan specializes in close-embrace dance and has honed his skills in the realms of Blues, Fusion, Tango, and Micro. A'lan's classes place a strong emphasis on connection, consent, safety, clear communication, and fostering shared experiences.
A’LAN ABRUZZO
AMBER DAWN - she/they - Oakland, CA
As a DJ, Amber Dawn thrives on creating containers to foster connection through music and movement. She started DJing six years ago, encouraged by her friends to share songs with fusion and ballroom dancers throughout the SF Bay Area and internationally. Amber especially loves playing dark, sensual, glitchy, and slow melty micro songs. Her unique skill as a DJ is reading the floor and adjusting to meet the dancers where they are. She values variety, playing sets that take dancers on a journey through multiple genres of dance and music. She teaches Fusion, Micro, and Ballroom dance, donates her time to mentor new DJ’s, and is a neurodivergent advocate. Find her via Facebook or her website: https://www.sensoryschool.org/
AMBER DAWN
ANĐELA VUJKOVIĆ - she/her - San Francisco, CA
Having graced the dance floor since the age of 11, Angela has garnered a wealth of experience and expertise. She had the unique opportunity to study, perform and teach Ballroom & Latin dances in Europe and the Bay Area, solidifying her prowess in dance forms including Salsa, Bachata, Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing, Bolero, Foxtrot, Tango, and Waltz.
Since 2018, she’s worked with hundreds of couples, refining the art of Partner flow, connection, trust and presence.
Angela’s coaching is a delightful fusion of dance, breath-work, yoga, and energy flow. She continues to guide dance enthusiasts of all ages through joyful, liberating and healing world of dance.
ANĐELA VUJKOVIĆ
ANGELA HEYUN - she/her - Las Vegas, NV
Angela is curious about everything embodiment and improvisation. She creates spaces for moving at the pace of being and feeling, connection in community, and going into the unknown together. Her first dance was Tango and her most recent passion is Zouk. She is influenced by Qi Gong, Butoh, Contemporary Dance, mixed movement arts, embodied theater, and ensemble work. She primarily teaches Contact Beyond Contact and Contact Improvisation, and is organizing and facilitating Fusion and Microfusion in Las Vegas.
ANGELA HEYUN
ANGIE HUANG - she/her - Oakland, CA
Angie is always listening for good music, anytime and anywhere. She's been dancing and DJing since 2009, and has kept expanding her love of music with her love of dance. Whether in the night woods or on smooth wooden floors, she aims to create aural experiences that cocoon dancers in a bubble of presence, suspended in time, playing in the curious spaces where human emotion and animal instinct meet. You can usually find Angie in the groove behind the booth. Her sets have been described as "raw kinetic catharsis" and "explosive love heartbeat", turning towards joy.
ANGIE HUANG
BEN LONG - he/him - Portland, OR
From out of the frenzy of the Lindy Hop revival at the turn of the millennium materialized Ben Long the dance instructor. Having pioneered microdancing in the mid-aughts as he settled into his home scene of Portland, he took the style national by invitation to teach at the first Fusion Exchange in Houston in 2008. He has since dabbled in most partner dances and has continued to adopt movement styles and techniques from each as he iterates on his own conglomeration of internal sense of fusion dancing. These days, he is most likely to answer to the call of synth and polyrhythms.
BEN LONG
BRIAN CHOU - he/they - Seattle, WA
Brian has been dancing fusion for over 10 years (oof) and has danced and DJed in many large cities, including Chicago, Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Los Angeles. His background stems primarily from bachata and blues, but with many influences of east coast swing, kizomba, and hip hop. Micro dancing is one of his passions, and he most enjoys tinkering with transitions during his sets, from the deep dramatic to cozy closeness. You can expect to grin, gasp, or groan. (What other options are there?) There will be less alliteration when he is DJing.
BRIAN CHOU
CARTER NELSON - he/him - nomadic
A partner dancer at heart, Carter has been Fusion dancing for over a decade, and both teaching and DJing for nearly as long. Drawing heavily from Blues and Tango, he strives for a smooth and effortless movement aesthetic. Carter loves to DJ all flavors of electronic music, steady grooves, and the ooey gooey melty.
CARTER NELSON
DIANE DARLINGTON - she/her
Diane caught the dance bug hard in 2018, and fell in love with micro fusion in 2023. She's been a trainer, tutor, and mentor in a variety of non-dance settings on and off for almost 40 years. She combines her passion for teaching and her fresh eyes on the world of fusion dance to bring you perspectives on the dance that may be new.
DIANE DARLINGTON
EMILY WEBB - she/her - Oakland, CA
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. Emily's adaptability to student needs, knowledge of body mechanics, and specialized drills create high impact learning for students of all levels. 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!
EMILY WEBB
EMORY ROERHKASSE - she/they - Oakland, CA
Emory Roehrkasse is a dynamic and compassionate dance instructor known for their playful, empowering approach to teaching. With over a decade of professional dance experience and a background in swimming instruction, group fitness, personal training, and somatics, Emory brings a deep, body-aware perspective to every class. Specializing in Lindy Hop, Balboa, Blues, West Coast Swing, and Fusion, their teaching draws on a rich foundation in opera, musical theatre, and years of cross-disciplinary coaching to help dancers of all levels find connection, confidence, and joy. Emory is active both locally and nationally—teaching, DJing, and emceeing at festivals while cultivating inclusive, beginner-friendly spaces through group classes and private lessons in Denver. Their classes center play, musicality, and personal expression, inviting students to grow through curiosity and connection.
EMORY ROERHKASSE
GRACIE JOHNSON - she/her - Greenville, SC
Gracie is the Logistics Coordinator of Greenville Fusion. She dances a wide variety of styles, with her current focus being West Coast Swing and Fusion. Gracie believes her background in teaching non-traditional learners helps her bring patience, creativity, and compassion to her instruction. Specializing in dance mechanics for bigger bodies, Gracie believes that teaching accessibility benefits everyone! Gracie found social dancing in 2016 and revels in anything that presents an opportunity for the perfect body roll. She believes passionately that the foundation of good social dancing is connection, clear communication, and embracing a sense of playfulness.
GRACIE JOHNSON
JAY TSANG - they/them - Oakland, CA
Jay has been fusion dancing since 2013 and fell in love with the embodied, meditative, and conversational nature of partner dance. They started casually teaching fusion in 2021 out of a desire to dance with their housemates during lockdown. They’ve since taught at various arts festivals, weeklies, and weekenders. With extensive teaching experience in both body and brain, Jay loves identifying themes of movement and breaking them down into small, digestible, practicable pieces. As a fusion teacher, they encourage dancers to play and explore the full range within a given technique to find the balance that’s fit for their style. They love facilitating experiences where people can feel connected, playful, and confident in their bodies.
JAY TSANG
JEANNIE LIN - she/her - San Diego, CA
As a dancer whose top enjoyments include subtle sensation and highly attuned partner connections, Jeannie is an unsurprising lover of micro-fusion dancing. For her, micro-dancing includes the technical aspects of movement and body mechanics as well as the ability to stay rooted and listening in the present moment. Having taught at pioneering micro-dancing festivals such as BAmF and MIST Connections, Jeannie enjoys sharing and teaching her concepts to different cities, including her home community of Los Angeles, where she co-founded LA's first micro-fusion venue, Tiny Dancers. By continually bringing innovative ways to learn and play together, Jeannie hopes that she can inspire deeper connections and intimacy in today’s world.
JEANNIE LIN
KENYA SOUL - Oakland, CA
Kenya Soul, hailing from the Bay Area, draws inspiration from a rich tapestry of hip hop, Lindy Hop, blues, and occasionally anime. Rooted in improvisation, connection, and musicality, Kenya breathes life into stories through movement. Kenya seeks to build bridges between divergent communities through shared artistic language, which is how he found his home in Fusion. Designed to create a creative landscape that feels both familiar and new.
KENYA SOUL
KYLE KILLOUGH / DJ VOLTER - he/him - Orlando, FL
DJ ⚡Volter (Kyle) discovered partner dance via Lindy Hop, Blues in Orlando, Florida in 2012, and was hooked. He set about learning as many styles as possible, became obsessed with the music, and started DJing. While co-founding Orlando's own fusion scene, ⚡Volter has served as a traveling DJ all over the continent from coast to coast physically and virtually! ⚡Volter sets about weaving musical adventures that tug at dancers’ inner minds, coaxing them to connect with the music, to play and and the energy, such that they can't help but move to the tunes- and the thunder....
KYLE KILLOUGH / DJ ⚡VOLTER
TENAE LEW - she/her - Seattle, WA
Tenae has been obsessively dancing, organizing, and DJing in and around Seattle for nearly fifteen years, bringing music to weekenders, weekly fusion, and micro events. Her style is rooted in music found in the wee-hours of the night, with an ear for micro-licious elements, deep, driving beats, and artists whose creations give you goosebumps. Tenae's goal is to offer sets in which rising and falling movements are felt within the dancers' connection to each other, in deep, tender darkness. You already know exactly what you’re gonna get.
TENAE LEW
LESSA LAMB - she/her - Seattle, WA
Lessa has been studying and performing various forms of dance for most of her life. In her continuous discovery of partner dance, she has found that her best, most creative, and most satisfying series of movements come when she stops thinking about what she's doing, and just allows the dance, the music, the connection, to flow through her. In this conduit-like state, she finds serenity. It is the deep and connected experience of these feelings that she strives to impart to as many people as she possibly can.
LESSA LAMB
RÉMY BAHEUX - they/them - Seattle, WA
For almost 15 years, Rémy has been DJing fusion events nationally. They've found so much joy in the constant exploration of music and what can be danced that the fusion community partakes in. They have been inspired by so many musical genres and dance styles in their journey. Music that'll make you feel, music that will make you shake! Booty werkin to oooey gooey. They are excited to share the range of their tastes and take you on a journey with their music ✨️
RÉMY BAHEUX
WREN FORTH - he/they - San Francisco, CA
Wren mixes music that’s chill, introspective, and full of feeling. They aim to blend warm, organic textures with deep electronic grooves. They're drawn to tracks that flow with space and movement, creating an atmosphere where you can dance, drop in, and vibe out.
Think: a dreamy walk through the forest at dusk. Grounded, a little mysterious, and wide open.
WREN FORTH
ROSE CRESPO - they/them - Seattle, WA
Rose Crespo is one half of the organizer team that produces Mighty Monthly Macro fusion (MMMf), an event centered on exploring “the bigness within us,” and will host MMMf in the side room at BAmF on Saturday night.
As a DJ, they are known for bringing both bangers and subtle beats to various local, national, and international fusion events since 2015. From the roots of the Mendocino Woodlands to the rooftops of Valencia, Spain, they love to create soundscapes that invite dancers to explore self and shared expression, intimacy, and trust.
ROSE CRESPO
TONY SCISIO - he/him - Seattle, WA
Tony brings music that provides comfort and play, but also more space for creatures and clowns to come out. He tends to aim for variety and sometimes hits themes, but in every set you can almost always expect moments for solidarity, familiarity, expansion, and throwdowns.