Afro-Latin Dance Community in Colorado
We examine the relationship between movement, music, & culture in Salsa through a study of Popular, Folkloric, Afro-Cuban, and Contemporary Cuban dance.
Join our TUMBAO events where RHYTHM meets COMMUNITY!
We at Tumbao celebrate Latinidad by continuing to build new inclusive spaces where Latinx locals & visiting artists can gather to dance, connect, & build community. Our mission is to uplift the vibrancy & solidarity of Latinx culture and its people to obtain new accessibility spaces that are rooted in Community, Culture & Sustainability.
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Afro-Latin Dance Classes
Meet The Founder
Jesús David Muñoz is a Latinx dance artist & percussionist within the complexities of Indigenous, Mexican & Cuban culture, music, and dance, and within Eurocentric dance in ballet, modern, & contemporary techniques.
Muñoz is a current ensemble dancer at Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, & recent MFA in Dance Graduate from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He holds a BFA in Dance Performance from the University of Central Oklahoma.
Being informed by his Mexican-Indigenous heritage, he explores dance through a cultural lens that celebrates Latinidad, fosters Latinx artistic excellence, & builds new accessibility spaces for his communities.
Our Mission
We aim at holistically living, inviting, & embodying Cuban dance to create spaces of accessibility, opportunity, & inclusion through building deep allyship with Latinx art.
We examine the relationship between movement, music, & culture in Salsa through a study of the different styles that make up this dance genre. Our dance training focuses on Popular, Folkloric, Afro-Cuban, & Contemporary Cuban dances through a study of history, tradition, demographics, & generational developments inside & outside of Cuba.