The Response

The Response

Festival Fusion
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20 juin 2025 au 23 juin 2025
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Lyon Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France
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Les cours

Fusion
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Pour danser

3 Soirées
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À propos

What is The Response?

It’s a fusion dance event with a special focus on the skill of following, applied to both leading and following.

Why?

The Response was created because:

Experienced followers excel at leading:

- Most followers with experience can quickly become competent leaders, while leaders often struggle to learn following.

- Experienced followers often have a comfortable and responsive lead, which followers love!

- This shows that following is crucial for all dancers, as it unlocks adaptability, balance, and co-creation.

A teaching gap exists:

- Most dance classes are taught from a leading perspective, with instructions geared toward leads.

- Very little attention is given to teaching followers.

Therefore, The Response aims to:

- Teach both leaders and followers the skill of following.

- Create a learning environment specifically designed to teach following.

How will it work?

The Response will be structured like most dance events:

Parties on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights.

Classes on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

Teachers:

All teachers are experienced followers with excellent pedagogy, ready to re-invent how dance is taught.

Teaching Tracks:

Incorporating Following into Leading:

Perfect for experienced followers learning to lead. Perfect for experienced leaders with limited follow experience.

The track every follower secretly wants their leader to take!

Goal: Create a more comfortable and responsive connection.

Intermediate Following:

For those with some following experience who want to improve.

Learn to find your voice as a follower.

Advanced Following:

For highly experienced followers to refine technique.

Explore different ways of following and expand your options.

What’s the vibe?

The Response will be a cosy event held in venues in Lyon, all within a 10-minute walk.

Brunches and dinners included : Share meals with new and old friends. We are here to celebrate and appreciate our followers.

The Details...

When: June 21–23rd

Where: Lyon

Stay tuned for more about:

The teachers

The venue

The food

The music

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Qu'est-ce que La Réponse ?

C’est un événement de danse fusion mettant l'accent sur l'art du "following" (suivre), appliqué aussi bien au rôle de leader qu’à celui de follower.

Pourquoi ?

La Réponse a été créé parce que :

Les followers expérimentés excellent dans le rôle de leader :

La plupart des followers expérimentés peuvent rapidement devenir des leaders compétents, tandis que les leaders ont souvent du mal à apprendre à suivre.

Les followers expérimentés développent un guidage confortable et réactif, que les autres followers adorent !

Cela montre que le rôle de follower est crucial pour tous les danseurs, car il permet d'acquérir adaptabilité, équilibre et co-création.

Il existe un manque dans l'enseignement :

La plupart des cours de danse sont enseignés du point de vue du leader, avec des instructions principalement destinées aux leaders.

Très peu d'attention est accordée à l’enseignement du rôle de follower.

Par conséquent, The Response vise à :

Enseigner aux leaders et aux followers les compétences liées au "following".

Créer un environnement d’apprentissage spécifiquement conçu pour cet art.

Comment cela va-t-il se dérouler ?

La Réponse sera structuré comme la plupart des événements de danse :

Soirées dansantes les vendredis, samedis et dimanches soirs.

Cours les samedis et dimanches après-midi.

Les professeures :

Toutes les enseignantes sont des followers expérimentés avec une pédagogie exceptionnelle, prêtes à réinventer l’enseignement de la danse.

Les parcours pédagogiques :

Intégrer le "following" dans le "leading" :

Idéal pour les followers expérimentés apprenant à guider et pour les leaders expérimentés avec peu d’expérience en tant que followers.

Le parcours que tous les followers souhaitent secrètement que leurs leaders suivent !

Objectif : créer une connexion plus confortable et réactive.

"Following" intermédiaire :

Pour ceux ayant une certaine expérience en tant que followers et souhaitant s'améliorer.

Apprenez à trouver votre voix en tant que follower.

"Following" avancé :

Pour les followers très expérimentés souhaitant affiner leur technique.

Explorez différentes façons de suivre et élargissez vos options.

Quelle sera l’ambiance ?

La Réponse sera un événement convivial organisé dans des lieux à Lyon, tous situés à moins de 10 minutes à pied.

Brunchs et dîners inclus : partagez des repas avec des amis, anciens et nouveaux. Nous sommes ici pour célébrer et valoriser nos followers.

Les détails…

Quand : du 20 au 23 juin

Où : Lyon

Restez à l’écoute pour en savoir plus sur :

Les professeurs

Les lieux

Les repas

La musique

Lieux

Lyon
Lyon, France

Line-up

Enseignants, Groupes, Dj, etc.., ils sont au programme de notre événement.

Frankier Porter

Frankier Porter

Enseignant

Frankie gave up dancing at the age of four, when she was cast as the Ugly Duckling for a ballet recital and was so offended she quit on the spot.

She was lured back in 2011 when she began a heated affair with Argentine tango, and has since fallen for a variety of styles from blues and reggaeton to popping and west coast swing (she still hasn’t been back to ballet). On the fusion floor she blends grounded funk with tight isolations and a LOT of smiling.

She now teaches across the UK and internationally, focusing on developing both creativity and control, and values building concepts in an accessible way to provide an expanded palette of musicality.

She believes strongly that the braided qualities that make up the skill of following – responsiveness, adaptability, resourcefulness, collaborative creativity – are fundamental for ALL improving dancers, and is excited to be part of an event that centres and nurtures these abilities.

Her goal for The Response: “I remember the moment in my own dance journey when I stopped minimising what I did as “just” following. I would love to help other dancers arrive at the same realization.”

Retrouvez Frankier Porter dans les cours suivants :
  • Following applied to leading
    Intermédiaire Fusion
Retrouvez Sia Helena dans les cours suivants :
  • Advanced follow track
    Avancé Fusion
  • Intermediate following : find your voice
    Intermédiaire Fusion

Sia Helena

Enseignant

Any day of Sia’s life without dancing and singing has always felt like an incomplete day to her. Sia is a voice movement artist with therapeutic and artistic training as a vocalist, dancer and somatic movement educator. Beginning in her studies in Jazz & Contemporary Music she developed her specialty in Improvisation and Instant Composition.

Continuously exploring different musicalities and various movement & dance approaches throughout her life, Sia has fallen in love with partner and social dancing after researching, studying, performing, teaching and holding both creative and therapeutic spaces for more than 15 years.

Fusion Dance allows her to weave all of those areas and components of her work, research and joy together.

Currently based in Switzerland Sia teaches Fusion both locally and internationally. In 2024 she launched the first regular Fusion Dance classes in the country and now hosts the monthly “Fusion Lab” as part of the Fusion Dance Bern association.

Sia’s work is dedicated to the intersection of the creative and the healing arts. Among other things it is to address social justice issues from a body-based liberation practice that drives her work. And as a musician & singer she approaches dance from a deep sense of listening, to the musicality in movement, breath and contact – with oneself and others.

Sia Helena
Siân Kathryn

Siân Kathryn

Enseignant

Siân runs the fusion scene in Bristol, UK, throwing everything from one-night parties to 12-day dance marathons. She’s been on her soapbox about the depth of skill in brilliant following, follow voice, and how much more she wants to see the skill of following spotlighted since she first started to switch, so The Response is pretty much her dream event.

As a dancer, Siân is all about blending deep connection with attitude. Find her in a dance trance in the micro room at 2am, giddy on tiny, crunchy isolations. Find her taking up space on the main floor with big, sweeping leg movements. Or maybe soloing in the middle of it all, experimenting with a million ways to move her hips.

Siân’s approach to teaching (and life) is “less talking, more dancing”. Expect simple concepts, and space to play, experiment and break things to see how they fit together.

Retrouvez Siân Kathryn dans les cours suivants :
  • Following applied to leading
    Intermédiaire Fusion
  • Intermediate following : find your voice
    Intermédiaire Fusion
Retrouvez Moe Rohr dans les cours suivants :
  • Advanced follow track
    Avancé Fusion
  • Intermediate following : find your voice
    Intermédiaire Fusion

Moe Rohr

Enseignant

She was born to connect through dance and spent many years learning, exploring, choreographing, performing and teaching Partner & Solo dance. It showed her that choreographies were a useful tool to become a technical dancer, but improvisation and connection in social dance were and still are the tools to become herself. For Moe, intuitive and mindful dancing is the most powerful way of feeling, healing, expressing and connecting. It’s what makes her feel alive, authentic and calm. Where there is music, there is Moe, dancing. Using every cell of her body.

Moe’s vision for social dance and why she loves being part of The Response:

It is time for the world to learn and accept, that following and leading in dance are skills for life, regardless of gender and intention. And social dance is a great space to practice (basic) human interaction: to feel, to listen and to respond to each other in a mindful and caring way, being and making aware our own needs, wishes and boundaries.

That is the reason Moe founded Tanzheit, the queer-feminist dance space in Bern and that’s why she’ll be there sharing her experience.

Moe Rohr

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