WE BELIEVE
IN
TEACHING
AFRO-LATIN DANCE
THAT CELEBRATES INCLUSION
HONORS LEGACY
and uplifts
BLACK VOICES AND ART
ORO is an Afro-Latin dance company in Austin, TX that uplifts the power and magic of Afro-rooted art forms, cultivating healing and empowerment through rhythms and movement.
TRAIN & PERFORM
WORKSHOPS
Our monthly workshops are choreography-based classes and are open to everyone! Each workshop centers on a fusion sequence incorporating different styles every month. Workshop styles include: Salsa on 2 Afro-fusion, reggaeton Afro-fusion, Afro-sensual, sensual movement, and hip hop fusion.
Open to all levels
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SERIES INTENSIVES
Our series Intensives focus on expanding dancers’ repertoire and refining technique within a particular dance style or dance area. Series intensives are designed to help our dancers advance through syllabus, improve technique and enhance precision in their movement.
Level specific depending on intensive
Teams
Teams are a four-month journey of body awareness, self-exploration, and expression. Each team of dancers trains on 2 salsa technique as well as a variety of Afro-Latin styles. Everyone learns a fusion choreography and the experience culminates with performances at multiple local Austin socials, and an optional finale performance at a salsa congress.
Open to all levels
GOLDEN advanced salsa team
Our golden advanced - a salsa on-2 shines performance team that focuses on building salsa on 2 repertoires, refining technical execution, and developing stage presence. This 4-month Team is meant to challenge intermediate dancers and push them to the next level of your salsa journey.
Level - Advanced
WHO WE ARE
We are a collective of diverse, passionate and absolutely unique dancers. Each of us brings different dance styles to our practice, making our performances and instruction one of a kind.
THE DIRECTORS
Angie and Audrey are a married, queer, non-binary dance couple. Born and raised in the Caribbean, together they specialize in Afro-Latin dances. By uplifting Afro-rooted art forms and breaking the traditional binary roles in partner dance, they aim to represent, and inspire marginalized people who want to be leaders in inclusive and creative spaces.
They began their work together in Boston, MA in 2016 while teaching for Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF), where they touched the lives of hundreds of immigrants and inner city youth. At this art-based youth development organization, they helped direct El Barrio, a production on Boston gentrification, and Raíces, a compilation of folk stories originating from Indigenous and African culture in Latin America. Angie and Audrey also founded and led HSTF’s alumni salsa troupe, Oshun, where they choreographed Afro-Latin dance pieces and performed all over the greater Boston area. The couple also co-directed, choreographed, and performed in the original production Yo Soy Lola 2017 and 2018, a multimedia show that sought to rewrite the Latina narrative. Concurrently, Angie and Audrey also danced and coached at world-renowned Afro-Latin dance company Masacote until 2020. In early 2021, Angie and Audrey moved to Austin, TX to establish ORO Dance Company.
Together Angie and Audrey have performed and taught at several dance congresses across the U.S. and Canada. In 2022, they were featured on PBS’s Emmy-winning web series, If Cities Could Dance by KQEDArts.
They began their work together in Boston, MA in 2016 while teaching for Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF), where they touched the lives of hundreds of immigrants and inner city youth. At this art-based youth development organization, they helped direct El Barrio, a production on Boston gentrification, and Raíces, a compilation of folk stories originating from Indigenous and African culture in Latin America. Angie and Audrey also founded and led HSTF’s alumni salsa troupe, Oshun, where they choreographed Afro-Latin dance pieces and performed all over the greater Boston area. The couple also co-directed, choreographed, and performed in the original production Yo Soy Lola 2017 and 2018, a multimedia show that sought to rewrite the Latina narrative. Concurrently, Angie and Audrey also danced and coached at world-renowned Afro-Latin dance company Masacote until 2020. In early 2021, Angie and Audrey moved to Austin, TX to establish ORO Dance Company.
Together Angie and Audrey have performed and taught at several dance congresses across the U.S. and Canada. In 2022, they were featured on PBS’s Emmy-winning web series, If Cities Could Dance by KQEDArts.
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