 Tribal Fusion Dance is a branch of the American Tribal Style Belly Dance movement, which began in the early 1990s by Carolena Nericcio, the director of Fat Chance Belly Dance.The first Tribal Fusion dance company (although there was no name for it at the time, they simply called it "Belly Dance Theatre") was Jill Parker's Ultra Gypsy.Jill Parker is often referred to as the "mama of Tribal Fusion".