GROUP CLASSES
Sunday Workshops at 7:15 PM | Beginner and Open Level |
Spontaneous, fun and movement-filled classes, where you can experience the spirit of Tango and the teacher’s Argentine roots.
Learn either the leading or following role, regardless of gender.
Duration: 90 minutes | Price: 15 tangos.
PRIVATE LESSONS
All levels | 60-minute lessons
Private lessons where the experience of Buenos Aires tango meets a deep understanding of the body and movement.
An individualised approach, supported by up-to-date teaching methodologies, that allows students to deepen their understanding of technique, musicality of movement, connection and quality of dancing, going far beyond steps and figures.
Private lessons are also available for women who wish to learn to dance in the leading role. This option is primarily intended for those who already have experience dancing as followers at milongas.
Contact: Alejandro, via Instagram DM @milongabarraca or email: milongabarraca@gmail.com
Learn to Dance Tango as in Buenos Aires
For Alejandro, tango is, above all, a lived and shared experience: a social dance rooted in the embrace, musicality, and the joyful energy of the dance floors of Buenos Aires.
Through his teaching, he seeks to recreate this spirit of spontaneity, playfulness, and celebration — tango as an experience shared with others. A tango whose language of movement goes beyond choreography.
What Will You Learn With Me?
In my classes, you will learn how Argentine tango is organised through the body, music, and the embrace.
With me, you will discover an inner language of the body and the embrace, from which a way of dancing, listening to music, and relating to another person on the dance floor emerges.
You will learn to feel how music transforms movement, the embrace, and the emotional connection with your dance partner.
Everything I teach comes from real experiences and deep reflection through my own body, developed over almost thirty years of dancing, observing, and experiencing tango in the milongas of Buenos Aires.
Every body perceives, learns, and embodies tango in its own unique way. This is why my classes aim to create the conditions for each person to discover and embody, through their own body, the movement qualities that characterise Argentine tango.
Brief Biography
Alejandro is an Argentine practitioner-researcher, tango dancer and teacher, born in Buenos Aires and based in Lisbon.
He holds a PhD in Performing Arts (2013) from the University of Évora, with research focused on non-verbal and interdisciplinary knowledge, and a degree in Music Education (University of Évora / Buenos Aires Higher Conservatory of Music).
Brief Artistic and Professional Background
Alejandro began dancing in late 1996. With extensive experience in teaching Argentine tango, his work is rooted in the social dance tradition of Buenos Aires, with a strong emphasis on the embrace, musicality, and an understanding of movement based on the distinctive characteristics of dancing at the milonga porteña.
Between 1999 and 2015, Alejandro worked professionally as a Dance Musician at the Lisbon Higher School of Dance, contributing to contemporary and modern dance technique classes. For 15 years, he worked closely with various dance teachers, including Antonio Carallo, a dancer with Pina Bausch’s company. This experience profoundly influenced his approach to the microanalytical study of movement, both in academic dance and social dances, particularly tango and salsa.
He completed postdoctoral research (2015–2021), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), and hosted by the University of Aveiro and the National University of La Plata. This work focused on the microanalysis of movement, exploring the interaction between verbal and non-verbal content. His research strengthens his ability to observe, analyse, and communicate complex processes of human movement shaped by perceptual and psychological factors.
An advanced practitioner of the GYROTONIC® Expansion System, applied to classical dance technique, Alejandro trained under the guidance of Barbora Hruskova, Principal Ballet Mistress of the Portuguese National Ballet Company (Companhia Nacional de Bailado). His work with this method has contributed to a more refined understanding of body organisation, efficiency, and clarity of movement, directly applied to his tango pedagogy.