Since 1999, Pedro Arandia is the major Western Australian representative on the International Tango scene.

Pedro Arandia is the only professional Tango dancer from Buenos Aires, Argentina in WA and has lived in Perth since 1999. He started danci ng in 1991 and has studied Tango extensively with the great masters of the dance including Mingo Pugliese, Pepito Avellaneda and many others. He started dancing professionally in 1994 at the international well know Academia Nacional del Tango in Argentina (Host of the World Championship) He has danced with famous orchestras such as Osvaldo Pugliese, El Arranque and Alberto Castillo. He brought the most spectacular and creative tango to Perth without question; Pedro's Tango shows are undoubtedly the very best and most authentic in WA. He is the 1st tango Dancer at His Majesty's theatre since 2001 and teach Tango at Western Australian University.

Thanks to Pedro Arandia's vision and knowledge many great artists have danced at teaching in our city. Big tango names, all renowned around the world, such as:

• Alejandra Hobert & Adrian Veredice 2006 (Cosmotango)
• Gisela Galeassi and Gaspar Godoy 2006 (World tango champs)
• Carlos and Maria Rivarola 2004 (Oscar award nominated 1998, cast of Tango Argentino, Tango Bar, Tango by Saura movies)
• Sergio Cortazzo and Gachi Fernandez 2005 (Tango X 2, World Tango Festival, Tangokinesis)
• Gato and Andrea 2002, 2004 & 2006 (more that 300 performances experience) and many others.

Arandia is a passionate and exciting young dancer and choreographer, who has directed and performed in his own Tango dance productions, notably Tango Cabaret (2002), Tango Takes 2 (2003) Tango Evolution (2004) Tango Nuevo (2005) and Tango Art (2006). He has taught and performed in all the major cities of Australia as well as London, Zurich and Buenos Aires.

Pedro's Motto is "If you want you can" and as a total artist he likes to work harder to improve he's multiples talents.

Pedro’s vision is to create a genuine Argentine Tango Cultural Centre in Australia where people can learn about and appreciate Argentine Tango dancing, Latin-American culture and heritage. He has very strong relationships with artists: dancers and musicians from Argentina, interstate and overseas. Arandia continues to organise visits to W.A. by the best and most famous Tango artists in the world. This maintains a regular interchange of ideas, skills and experience, to improve and inspire everyone in Australia.

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