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 Lautaro Arino´s success was first prompted with Club Latino, Sweden, and their routines ”Thriller”,”Aladdino Latino”,”M.A.S.H.”, and then with Sacuye Latin Dancer, with “Vogue”,”Aves Maria”,Baila que Baila”,”Fosse Mambo”,and “Mix Show”. His group won the 2002 Albert Torres Annual European Salsa Team Competition in Haarlem, Holland, and he is the 2nd place winner of the Swiss Championship 2004.
One rare strength Lautaro possesses is his knowledge in both, Casino, the Cuban Salsa and Cross Body Style Salsa. Starting of as so many dancing Cuban Salsa he has never stopped developing it and masters both styles. Having more than six years of teaching experience he loves to share the tricks and secret he learned around the world. His greatest strength, however, is his diversity in being able to teach many different styles and disciplines of Latin and AfroCuban dances.
Lautaro discovered Cuban music on a trip to Latin America to visit family. Writing a letter he was listening to the radio and heard a timbale solo. Having always been very into rhythms and drumming he got very curious. Later back in Sweden he bought his first salsa cd:s. A friend told him she knew how to dance salsa and offered to teach him. “Wow!, can you dance to salsa? Wonder how that works?” he thought curiously. So he learned the basics from friends at clubs and parties. At that time the salsa scene was very small and there where no good places to learn. Having learnt the basics he went of to study photography in a small village (population 1800) on the small island of Gotland. Being a very calm please, when not photographing or eating sheeps heads (a local tradition) Lautaro turned to the music. Listening to all salsa and Afro Caribbean music he could find and practicing the basics of the dance gave him a god base. The school also had music students from whom he learnt a lot about music complementing the conga classes he had taken before.
Born in Sweden in an Argentinean family, Lautaro Ariño moved to the capital, Stockholm, to develop his dancing. Being on stage had always been a part of Lautaros life. Both of his parents had been working with theatre and he grew up with his father directing many theater plays. Later, after finishing theatre high school, Lautaro also worked with his father as an actor
Since he started to learn salsa Lautaro fell in love with Rumba music. After finishing his photography school he went to Cuba to learn more about the rumba as a dance, son and Cuban Salsa. Two years later he went again to concentrate on rumba. On that trip he found his teacher, Julio Viscay, a dancer in the renowned rumba group “Clave y Guaguanco”. After that trip rumba has been Lautaros companion and friend.
Upon moving to Stockholm in 2000 Lautaro joined Club Latino, a then newly founded group concentrated on going to and performing at the yearly Bacardi Salsa Congress in Puerto Rico, to where they would return to perform each year and later with Sacuye. With Club Latino he also won the 1st place in the choreography competition of the yearly Dutch salsa congress.
After Club Latino was split up, Lautaro, together with Mira Hannula, Ibirocay Regueira and Marina Prada, all former Club Latino dancers and founder, founded Sacuye Latin Dancers.
During a 3 year partnership with Candice Leong, he opened and ran Bailattelo Dance Academy in Zurich, Switzerland. He is now back in stockholm working with Sacuye and the newly opened SalsaAkademien in central Stockholm.
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