Choreographer Katy Barnhill created World Dance Fusion as a result of her upbringing in the rich multi-cultural dance community of the San Francisco Bay Area in 1996.

After premiering several works with The Movement Company in Los Angeles, Katy moved on to create "Wave" at Kaufman Hall at UCLA in 2000.

Since then she has presented work at The Canvas in San Francisco, Peak Center for Performing Arts in New Jersey, Asociación Cultural Antigua de Sevilla, The National Gallery of Modern Art in Bombay India, and the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York.

Katy has taught World Dance Fusion master classes in San Francisco; Los Angeles; New York; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Sevilla, Spain; Calcutta; and Bombay, India.

World Dance Fusion has received funds from Peak Center for the Performing Arts, NJ, and The Tata Tea Corporation of India.

photo © 2004 Karen Preuss / Jeroboam

• Brazil - afoxe (Orixa dances), capoeira (Angola & regional), forro, pagode, samba, samba reggae
• Central Asia -Afghani, Azerbaijani, Persian classical, Tajikistani, Uzbekistani
• China - Chinese folk / classical, Mongolian, Tibetan
• Congo - Congolese
• Cuba- Cuban folkloric (Orisha dances, rumba)
• Dominican Republic - Meringue
• Ghana - Ghanaian
• Haiti - Haitian folkloric, other Caribbean, Dunham
• India - bharatnatyam, kathak, odessi
• Russia - Russian character
• Spain - Flamenco
• Middle East - belly dance (Egypt & Turkey)
• West Africa - Guinean, Senegalese
• United States- jazz,hip-hop, and ballet