Ways to Support

Choose how you'd like to help.

Give financially, build a partnership, or lend your time and skills—every form of support helps carry the work forward.

Why It Matters

More than classes. Living tradition.

When people support Lux, they’re not simply funding dance classes. They’re helping preserve and advance living cultural traditions through education, performance, and community.

Every gift creates more opportunities to learn, connect, and participate—while helping ensure these art forms continue to thrive for generations to come.

Scholarship & Access

Help reduce financial barriers so more students can learn, grow, and participate.

Artist & Educator Support

Honor and compensate the teachers, performers, and practitioners who carry this work forward.

Community Programming

Bring classes, workshops, and cultural experiences to more people and neighborhoods around Austin.

Cultural Preservation

Protect and share Latin and Afro-Caribbean dance music and traditions as living art forms.

The Programs

What your support makes possible.

Your support helps Lux launch programs that expand access to dance education, bring culturally rooted experiences into the community, and invest in the artists who carry these traditions forward.

2026 pilot

Youth Access Scholarship Pilot

Provides financial assistance so young people can participate in high-quality dance education regardless of their family’s ability to pay. Scholarships help cover training costs and create a more accessible path into cultural arts.

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2026 pilot

Youth Outreach Pilot

Brings culturally rooted dance education directly to young people through partnerships with schools and community organizations. The program introduces students to movement, music, and cultural traditions in welcoming, accessible settings.

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Launching 2027

Lux Mambo Sponsored Performance Company

Provides selected dancers with sponsored training, structured rehearsals, and opportunities to perform. The company supports artistic development while helping preserve, advance, and share mambo as a living cultural tradition.

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Culture endures because
people carry it forward.

Choose how you'd like to help.

More than classes. Living tradition.

What your support makes possible.

Help carry culture forward.

Culture endures becausepeople carry it forward.

Choose how you'd like to help.

More than classes. Living tradition.

What your support makes possible.

Help carry culture forward.

Culture endures because
people carry it forward.