El Grupo Folklorico Atotonilco, the dance and performance company of Guadalupe Center, Inc. (GCI), teaches Latino children and youth about their culture and history through dance. Participants study traditional Mexican dance, Caribbean dance and the cultures from which these dances developed. Visiting artists who are specialists in a particular dance form are brought to the Center. The participants, most of whom are teenagers and from low-income families, practice one to five times per week and perform at festivals year-round throughout the county. There is an open enrollment policy; new young people join classes, which are organized by age and experience, all the time. El Grupo puts on 3 major performances and some 45 other performances a year. According to Bernardo Ramirez, GCI's director of development, "El Grupo's excellent reputation and extremely high level of instruction has allowed several longtime participants to spin off and form their own dance groups." The Guadalupe Center, Inc. is a multiservice center.