About Pedro "el indio" Benavente
Pedro Benavente, "El Indio", was born in Buenos Aires.He has a very special style of dancing, mainly due to his academic and popular background.
He has studied tango with the most important teachers and milongueros.He loves the old milonguero and canyengue styles.His classes are taught in a relaxed and, sometimes, fun way.He emphasizes the technique of the foundations in the milonguero style.His specialty is milonga con traspié (rhythm, time and space).
He was the first dancer of the Brandsen Ballet and the Ballet Nacional Folklórico.In 1991, after becoming an independent dancer he won the Bienal de Arte Joven en Danza Contemporanea (Biannual festival of young art in contemporary dance).In 1992 he was invited by the Bolshoi Ballet to create a fusion of tango and ballet with the music of Astor Piazzola, in Moscow and Georgia.The same experience was repeated in 1994 at the Opera Theatre in Buenos Aires.1999 he worked with Mercedes Sosa and León Gieco, and Victor Heredia in different festivals throughout Argentina.During the last 10 years he has toured different festivals and tango congresses in Buenos Aires, USA and Europe, including CITA 99 & 2000, and Nora's Tango Week 99 and 2000.He also has kept for 10 years a street performance at Plaza Dorrego in San Telmo (typical tango neighborhood in Buenos Aires) portraying the history of tango through dance.
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