Luis Pereyra

Luis Pereyra was born on July 9, 1965 in Santiago del Estero. He studied modern dance, classical ballet, jazz dance, folklore, tap dance, music at the Escuela Nacional de Danzas and choreography at the Teatro Colon. He was already on stage professionally at the age of ten: Ballet Salta, Mario Machaco and Santiago Ayala's ballet “El Chúcaro”. This was followed by a solo career. Thanks to Héctor Zaraspe, he became acquainted with the Juilliard School in New York. He took part in successful tango productions worldwide as a solo dancer and choreographer, including “Tango Argentino” from 1987 to 2000 and received the Tony Award for “Best Choreography” in 2000. In 2001 he took on the solo part in the opera Orestes - Last Tango. In the course of his tap and tango career, he has performed with Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Peter Coyote in the USA. In England, he danced in front of Lady Diana and Prince Charles and taught them both to dance. The press ran the headline “Only Pereyra can outdo himself”. The Los Angeles Times called him the “Fred Astaire of Argentina”. In 1996, he founded his own company “El Sonido de mi Tierra” and “VIDA”, took over the artistic direction of Viejo Almacén and was awarded the Argentinian State Prize for Culture several times for his works. His first book will be published in 2025.