Argentine Tango Classes

Argentine Tango Classes

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, 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.

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).

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.