World Arts West

World Arts West is dedicated to sustaining culturally specific, traditional, and folk dance communities of Northern California. Acting as both a presenter and a service organization, it produces the annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. A recently completed strategic plan expanded the 2011 festival, a month-long celebration of traditional world dance forms, from thirty-seven performances to fifty and added more participatory activities. In addition, the organization offers technical assistance to the folk and traditional dance community.