¡Retumba! (Resound!) is a multi-ethnic music and dance ensemble from Bronx, New York, founded in March of 1981 in celebration of Women's History Month. ¡Retumba! bases its work on the music and dance of Africa and Europe and its expressions in the Americas and the Caribbean: Puerto Rico, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, and South America. ¡Retumba! brings forth the drama and excitement of world culture and traditions into a feast of folkloric music that everyone can enjoy while demonstrating the similarities and links of our shared cultures.

Ana "Rokafella" Garcia is a NYC native who has represented women in Hip-hop dance professionally over the past three decades. She co-founded Full Circle Prod Inc, NYC's only nonprofit Hip hop Dance Theater company, with her husband Kwikstep generating theater pieces, dance training programs and NYC based dance events. She directed a documentary highlighting the Bgirl lifestyle entitled "All The Ladies Say" with support from Third World Newsreel and Bronx Council of the Arts. She is hired internationally to judge Break dance competitions and to offer her unique workshops aimed at evolving and preserving its technique and cultural aspects. She has worked within the NYC public school system and various NYC based community centers setting up programs that help expose young students to the possibility of a career in dance. In May of 2017 she launched “ShiRoka”-- a t shirt fashion line with Shiro, a Japanese Grafitti artist. She has been featured in pivotal Rap music videos, tours, film, fashion shows, and commercials including the NetFlix Series The Get Down. Rokafella has choreographed for diverse festivals / concerts such as The NY Philharmonic Orchestra’s Firebird in 2022, The Kennedy Center, Momma's Hip-hop Kitchen and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Branching out of her dance lane, she has also recorded original songs / poetry and performed at NJPAC's Alternate Routes in Newark and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. She received the Joyce award to collaborate with True Skool in Milwaukee and received the American Dance Festival’s National Dance Teacher Award. Presently she is an adjunct professor at The New School and a content creator for Bronx Net TV producing her own TV series entitled “Kwik2Rok”. Rokafella is a multi faceted Afro Latin Hip-hop artist who references Nuyorican culture as her foundation.

Gabriel “Kwikstep” Dionisio AKA DJ KS 360 started dancing between the

ages of 6 and 7 influenced by Soul Train and block parties in NYC.

Kwikstep has performed in PBS's Peabody Award-winning "Everybody

Dance Now," the Great Performances 20th Anniversary Special, and Kurt

Weill's "September Songs," which was nominated for an Emmy Award.

In 1991 he had won a Bessie award for choreography and founded the internationally known Full Circle in 1992. In 1996 Kwikstep and his wife Rokafella established Full Circle as a non-profit internationally acclaimed Hip hop collective known as Full Circle Productions Inc and it’s members are known as Full Circle Souljahs. Today he is an international icon in

breaking and is best known for his smooth style, versatility and signature head spins.

Christina "CC" Cruz is a creative Bronx native who has been shaping the lives of the youth and adults through dance and various other art forms. She holds a BA in Dance from CUNY Lehman College and worked as an independent teaching artist with a concentration in Hip-Hop dance throughout The Bronx and Brooklyn. CC held the position of Director of Hip Hop Theory: The Company and Program Director of Each 1 Teach One Dance Series; also based out of Lehman College and has also worked in performing arts theaters such as Lehman Stages (Usher, Stagehand & House Manager) and TriBeCa Performing Arts Center (Usher). CC has experience in being a judge and head judge at Prelude Urban Dance Competition as well as curating Prelude New York, hosted by Hip Hop Theory Dance Company. She is currently a full-time educator at a charter school in The Bronx and has been performing with Full Circle Souljahs (Behind the Groove presented by Works & Process, 2024; Dance Parade NYC Gala 2024).

Tiffany Infini-T Craddock was born in Englewood, NJ with her twin sister and grew up in midtown Manhattan same block as the famous Laguardia high school and neighborhood of the Met opera house and Juilliard.  She studied various styles of dance including Ballet from elementary through high school. Her earliest performances ranged from school concerts, block parties and even at the world famous Apollo theater twice. During her final High school years she began to take up Breaking at a community center called The Door coached by Kwikstep. Traveling and performing with Full Circle brought her to places like NJ PAC, Hostos Community College, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Legendary Female MC Queen Godis featured her in the music video for her song "Bgirl" and she appears in the "All The Ladies Say" documentary as well as the "We B*Girlz" book by Martha Cooper.  She started teaching Breakin classes to children and some young adults such as at the Lexington School of the Deaf and Washington Irving High School, her alma mater. The choreography she creaated for a performance to Paper Thin by MC Lyte is still taught to and performed by new generations of dancers in Full Circle Souljahs since her unique moves are a testament to Black women in Hip hop from NYC- the birthplace. She also worked many jobs as a Union Carpinter that ranged from construction work to demolition. As a young adult she became a mother and has four beautiful chilldren to tend to but still remains connected to the culture of Hip hop. The close knit dance community she gained from her dance trajectory gives her the positive energy which she in turn shares with the world.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico. Ms. Tucker holds degrees in Dance, Biology and

Chemistry, a master in Dance Education from New York University-NYU. Is the founder

and artistic director of BOMBAZO Dance Co. Ms Tucker has apprenticed and performed

with Bomba elders and distinguished Bomba families in Puerto Rico from San Juan,

Santurce, Loiza, Catano, Ponce, Mayaguez, Arroyo. As an educator and Master Bomba

dancer, she lectures in dance departments on Bomba dance technique, figure and

timing across the United States and internationally. Milteri has worked for distinguished dance companies and choreographers from Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and United States. She has performed and showcased her work at City Center, Alvin Ailey, Hostos Main Stage, BAAD, Pregones Theater, Thalia Spanish Theater, Castillo Theater, El Museo del Barrio, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, PRTT and STEPS. Theater Credits include:The Perils Of Chencha" written and directed by Anita Velez Mitchell, YES I YES, written by Acclaimed Spanish writer Yolanda Garcia Serrano directed by Noelle Mauri, Amor Latino written and directed by Angel Gil Orrios, La Negra Mas Bella", "Llamada/ Rally Cry" both written and directed by Nancy Nevarez, Lulu en la Habana written by Ntozake Shange and directed by Carla Pinza. She portrayed Josephine Baker for Macy's Herald Squares tribute to the "First Diva: Josephine Baker" in 2007, performed for Broadway's Easter Bonnet at the Minskoff Theater in 2011 and highlighted dancer at the Latin Billboards for Puerto Rican urban artist, Don Omar. Recently ms Tucker is seen in Lin Manuel Miranda’s “In The Heights” The Movie.

Eric Stern is a 23-year old jazz pianist, composer, educator, and arranger who makes “keyboarding more like surfboarding, wave after wave at breakneck speed. Every solo is a show unto itself" (BroadwayWorld). Whether playing with acclaimed young vocalists, as a bandleader of his Quintet or Trio, or in other various projects around New York City, Eric is quickly establishing himself as an upcoming star in the NYC jazz scene. In 2023, Eric played on two records, Kate Kortum’s debut record Good Woman, and on a live record from the Frost Jazz Orchestra, Live at Gusman Concert Hall. He has played with other young rising talent such as Tyreek McDole, Abdias Armenteros, Joie Bianco, David Sneider, Kellin Hanas, June Cavlan, and many others all over NYC. Eric grew up in Brooklyn, New York, studying at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music with various classical and jazz teachers. His passion for jazz began in middle school, and in high school, he got involved in a slew of New York City arts programs, including the Belongó Fat Cats Big Band directed by noteworthy drummer Zack O’Farrill. In 2019, Eric moved to Miami, Florida to study at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami. While at the Frost School of Music, Stern had the opportunity to study privately with Shelly Berg, Martin Bejerano, Alex Brown, and Gonzalo Rubalcaba, as well as working with GRAMMY-winners Dafnis Prieto, Regina Carter, Terrell Stafford, Dick Oatts, and John Daversa. Eric moved back to NYC last year and is currently studying for his master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Ted Rosenthal, Phil Markowitz, Jon Faddis, Nicole Glover, John Benitez, Buster Williams, and others. Stern has won numerous awards throughout his career, including being a National YoungArts Honorable Mention in 2020, the winner of the Bösendorfer prize at the American Jazz Pianist Competition, and an attendee of the 2022 JAS Summer Jazz Academy, working with Christian McBride.Currently, Eric leads multiple bands, his Quintet, and his Trio. Each has performed extensively throughout NYC, in places such as Chelsea Table + Stage, ShapeShifter Lab, SoapBox Gallery, and at Fiction Bar. His Trio also toured Florida earlier this year, stopping in St. Petersburg, Miami, and Orlando.

Composer, musician, vocalist, and percussionist.

Born in Puerto Rico, Johnny came to New York as an established percussionist in his late teens. He has performed with Frankie Ruiz, Sonora Matancera, Marvin Santiago, and many others here in New York. Movie credit: Fatal Attraction (Club Broadway Scene as bandmember)

Brooklyn born Haitian-American artist Goussy Célestin interchanges the roles of pianist, composer, vocalist, dancer, writer and arranger with ease. Her current mission integrates all of her disciplines in her project, Goussy Célestin’s Ayiti Brass, incorporating elements of traditional Haitian folklore and Jazz. Goussy has performed for the last two decades for audiences locally, nationally and in Cuba, England, Haiti, Wales, and Japan. Goussy is a faculty member and manager for music education programs at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and a professor at BerkleeNYC. Goussy also serves as faculty for Bobby McFerrin’s CircleSongs School and leads music workshops for The Metropolitan Opera.