Charros and dancers and bulls, oh my! The Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza served up a visual feast — as well as a lesson in Mexican cultural traditions — as it marked its 24th year as part of National Western Stock Show in on Sunday in Denver. People packed into the Denver Coliseum to take in the show, which blended rodeo standards such as trick riding and mutton busting with distinctly Mexican practices such as horse dancing and El Jarabe Tapatio — known domestically as the Mexican Hat Dance. Performers dazzled the audience with the “Paso de la Muerte.” The dangerous horseback maneuver requires a charro — a Mexican cowboy — to leap from the back of one galloping horse onto the bare back of another one galloping alongside. “I really like how the Mexican and American culture come together from the national anthems on,” attendee Hugo Aguina said of Sunday afternoon’s event, the first of two shows the cadre of dancers, singers, bullfighters and others put on at the stock show this year. Aguina, of Denver, said he has attended the Mexican rodeo with family members for the past four or five years and appreciates how it embraces performers’ heritages and backgrounds.

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