Serena Spears is a fusion dancer, performer, teacher, and choreographer from Brooklyn, NY. With over 35 years of dance experience and a diverse background in Afro-Latin and Middle Eastern dance forms as well as hip-hop, modern, African, and ballet, Serena focuses on sharing seamlessly integrated and moving fusion that inspires people around the world. In 2014, Serena started learning Afro-Latin partner dancing, spending the subsequent years exploring salsa, bachata, merengue, chachachá, rumba, Afro-Cuban dance, tango, samba, and, most recently, Brazilian zouk and kizomba. Combining her new training pathways with the old has given her a unique perspective on teaching movement and partner dancing, and it continues to strengthen her passion for sharing dance as a form of art, connection, and healing.