Professor: Ale Laguna and guest teachers
- GROUP CLASSES Sundays – 7:15 pm | 90-minute class | Beginners Level and Open Level Fee: 15 tangos
- LADIES TANGO Mondays – 7:00 pm | 75-minute class | Intermediate and advanced level Fee: 15 tangos A laboratory for women who wish to learn the role of leading in a situated, embodied way.
- PRIVATE LESSONS All levels | 60-minute class Contact Alejandro via Instagram DM @milongabarraca or by email milongabarraca@gmail.com
Learning tango as it lives on the dance floors of Buenos Aires
For me, social tango is first and foremost a lived, shared experience: a social dance rooted in the embrace, musical feeling, and the joyful energy of the Buenos Aires dance floor. In my teaching, I aim to recreate that sense of spontaneity, playfulness, and celebration — tango as something lived with others, not performed or analyzed on the surface.
What Will You Learn With Me?
In my classes, you will learn how the body organizes argentine tango while dancing, even through its simplest movements.
With me you will come into contact with an inner argentine language of the body and the embrace that often cannot be easily perceived from the outside, yet from which a way of walking, listening to the music, and relating to the other person on the dance floor is born.
You will learn how to be emotionally moved through dance, and to feel how music transforms the experience of movement, the embrace, and the connection with the other person.
You will also gradually develop a deeper sense of connection with the music, greater confidence in the embrace, and a more natural way of moving and communicating on the dance floor.
In my classes, you will not hear abstract theories or repeated formulas. Every element I teach comes from real experiences that I have understood through the body over nearly thirty years of dancing, observing, and living the tango of the Buenos Aires milonga.
Living for so many years in Lisbon has allowed me to observe tango from a comparative perspective and to perceive deep details in the way tango is felt and physically organized in Buenos Aires.
For this reason, my classes are essentially personalized. Every body feels, perceives, is emotionally affected, and learns in a unique way.
I do not teach to impress. I reveal knowledge through your own body.
Alejandro is an Argentine practitioner-researcher, tango dancer and teacher, from Buenos Aires, based in Lisbon, with a PhD in Performing Arts (University of Évora) focused on non-verbal, cross-disciplinary knowledge (implicit and explicit), and a degree in Music Education (University of Évora / Higher Conservatory of Music of Buenos Aires).
Experience and Background
With almost 30 years of experience teaching Argentine tango, his work is grounded in the social dance tradition of Buenos Aires, with a strong emphasis on the embrace, musicality, and the embodied understanding of movement as it emerges on the dance floor.
Alejandro specialized as a dance musician within university-level contemporary and modern dance technique classes, working closely with dance teachers and providing musical-metrical support in an academic context. This experience strongly informs his approach to structuring movement, timing, and musical awareness in tango teaching.
He has seven years of postdoctoral research fellowship experience (University of Aveiro and National University of La Plata) in movement analysis and the interaction between verbal and non-verbal content, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, strengthening his ability to observe, analyze, and transmit complex human movement processes shaped by perceptual and psychological factors.
An advanced practitioner of the Gyrotonic Expansion System (Barbora Hruskova, head rehersal director at Companhía Nacional de Bailado), his work with this method has further refined his understanding of body organization, efficiency, and clarity of movement, directly applied to tango pedagogy.