Junior Aquino

Junior Aquino is one of the worlds most well known and renowned dancers in the Dominican genre. His passion to show the world the beauty of his culture knows no limits and this tour is one of his many dreams coming true thanks to all the lovers of the Dominican culture.

Junior Aquino was born in Bonao, the Dominican Republic, in 1987 and took his first dance steps as a child. Even as a young boy, Junior was captivated by the rhythms and started dancing bachata and salsa in parks, squares, streets and wherever music was played. For many years he studied bachata, salsa and other traditional and folkloric dance styles at Plaza de la Cultura in Bonao and at numerous dance schools all over the Dominican Republic. At nineteen years of age he became a representative of bachata in his hometown of Bonao when he started organizing competitions and other events.

Junior has been teaching bachata and salsa since 2008 in the Dominican Republic and is seen as one of the key people in the bachata scene in the DR. Since 2014 he has taught and performed at a number of congresses all over the world. He is the founder and owner of Keloke Dance Company who organizes Keloke Bachata Festival, the first all Dominican festival in Scandinavia, and Keloke Bachata Adventures, a dance tour in four different locations in the Dominican Republic.

Since July 2016 Junior resides permanently in Stockholm, Sweden, working with Carolina Bustamante teaching bachata and salsa at Stockholm Salsa Dance in Stockholm. During the past years they and their Dominican Flow teams have participated in congresses and other events in France, Mexico, Spain, Germany, Israel, Australia and Russia to mention some. Their goal is to spread and share their knowledge of the Dominican culture to Europe and the whole world.