Anna Cardenas is a senior at UCSB, finishing up her BA degree in Communication. She has been dancing for over 7 years and joined Fusion in the summer of 2005. She is trained in numerous dance styles, as well as vocal performance, and musical theater. Anna grew up in the Sacramento area where she received most of her training, and aspires to further her dance career with Fusion Dance Company. She loves to be on the stage and greatly appreciates all the support her family has given her to follow her dreams.

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Ashley Kohler was trained in Oceanside, California at Dance Unlimited. She has been trained in jazz, ballet, lyrical, and hip hop. She is currently attending UCSB and is enjoying her time with Fusion.

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Carlos Martinez is originally from Los Angeles and currently is a Psychology major at UCSB. This year Carlos is a senior. He is a professional Salsa and Latin Ballroom dancer, which he has being doing for about 5 years. He was on a professional Salsa/Latin Dance team, Salsational, in L.A. for 2 years. He has taught Salsa for 2 years as well. He joined FUSION in June 2006 to broaden his dance skills and become a more well rounded dancer. He loves learning and teaching new things to others. Dance allows him to accomplish this. "I love it!"

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Cynthia Norton is assistant director of Fusion Dance Company and is a Santa Barbara native who has been dancing since the age of 4. She was classically trained in ballet under the direction of Denise Rinaldi and has completed her Checchetti exams with marks of honors. She has been a soloist with Santa Barbara Festival Ballet with many roles in major ballet productions such as the Nutcracker, Paquita, Don Quixote and Les Sylphides to name a few. For the last 12 years she included jazz under the direction of Steven Lovelace, hip hop, lyrical, modern, swing, musical theatre and Mexican folkloric dancing as part of her training. Cynthia began dancing with Fusion in fall of 2004 and became assistant director in fall of 2005. Cynthia began teaching and choreographing at the age of 16 and has never stopped since. However, this would have never happened without her mother’s constant love and support.

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Danny Soto has been a member of fusion for two years and is currently an Environmental Science major at Santa Barbara City College. He has studied a variety of dance styles including jazz, African, flamenco, traditional Mexican, modern, and hip hop. He was an active member of the Dos Pueblos high School theater department, often in the role of dance captain. He was also the founder and director of his high school's hip-hop dance team, "Rebels of Rhythm." Danny has performed, and helped choreograph many dance shows in Santa Barbara including: "Teen Choreographers Showcase", "BASSH", and "Art of Love".

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Kara Stewart is director of Fusion Dance Company. She has a BA in dance from Cal State University of Long Beach, and is trained in many different styles including: jazz, lyrical, ballet, hip hop, musical theater and modern. She has worked as a professional choreographer and dancer for about 12 years. Some of her credits include various musicals at the Music Theater of Southern California, Walt Disney Entertainment, 2000 Australia Olympics, and featured in Britney Spears "Crossroads" Las Vegas tour video.

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Laura Zelko has been dancing since the age of 11, and this is her first year in Fusion. She prefers not to tie herself down to one dance form and instead enjoys being a jack (for her wonderful poker-playing family, a jack-high flush) of all trades. Choreography is one of her favorite aspects of dance, and she hopes to continue to grow in that area throughout her life. She teaches hip-hop at Adams School and assists classes at the Santa Barbara Jazz Dance Academy. It may be unclear what may await Laura later in her life, but she is eager to find out. With any luck, it will contain both chocolate and dance.

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Liz Tenuto started dancing in San Diego, California at the age of 7. She is a senior at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is working towards her BA in Psychology and Spanish. What draws her to dance is its purity of expression; she believes that movements don't lie. She has been fortunate enough to learn many different styles of dance through traveling and exposure to inspirational people and dance instructors. Liz wants to thank her family for their love and support. She hopes to incorporate all that she has learned into movement and is excited to do so with the members of Fusion.

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London Burns has danced as long as she can remember, focusing on ballet, jazz, and hip hop. She was a choreographer for her high school dance team and a member of Dimensions Dance Studio's company in St. Louis, Missouri. After coming to UCSB she found Fusion and has been with them since!

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Maggie Dill spent most of her life in a dance studio. She started training when she was four years old, studying strictly ballet until she was in her teens. Her evolving into a jazz, hip hop and modern dancer only heavily began when she was adopted into Fusion in January of 2006. Aside from dancing, Maggie spends most of her time teaching ballet to children, cooking food with her friends and roommates, and trying to find ways to pay her rent. She enjoys snuggling with her kitty, drinking tea and eating lots and lots of chocolate every day.

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Bio coming soon.

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