26/09/2026
MAESTROS LAUTARO CANCELA and ALEJANDRO LAGUNA
present WORKSHOP:
CADENCE, ELEGANCE & CONNECTION in ARGENTINE SOCIAL TANGO.
Individual exercises and music-based bodywork to understand and practice these notions.
PROGRAM
25-minute introductory talk with Lautaro and Alejandro about Argentine Social Tango and the topic to be presented, with time for questions, followed by 115 minutes of individual body practice.
Duration: 2 hours and 20 minutes.
Expected finish between 7:45 pm and 7:55 pm.
Level: Open (Intermediate and Advanced), leaders and followers.
📌 REGISTRATION
Payment by MB Way. Request the payment reference by writing to [email protected]
🟢 €40 until Tuesday, September 29.
🟡 €45 from September 30 to October 2, inclusive.
🚫 No registrations will be accepted on the day
Venue: https://share.google/8HBDKGADpTbI56YGX
Individual participation. Comfortable clothing.
Doors open at 5:20 pm.
📌 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
This workshop brings you closer to the less visible aspects of the body that deeply influence the way we dance and bring tango to life: we will practice with precision how to produce and understand the inner movements that give walking its particular ‘porteño’ quality.
Both teachers will teach you to recognize how your body needs to work in order to dance tango: how you support and transfer your weight, the muscular effort required to walk within the music, and how you coordinate the torso, pelvis and legs to maintain the expressive and musical continuity of the embrace.
Lautaro and Alejandro will guide you through explanations, examples and individual exercises so that you can understand how the main notions of Tango are worked on: cadence, elegance and connection.
Together, we will explore how much and how far the body needs to move in each action, how to organize it throughout its trajectory and how to regulate the effort required.
The exercises will help you understand more clearly how intention takes shape from within the body, as well as how the weight of our body is prepared, sustained and expressively transferred.
If you continue training the WS exercises with music, you can begin to understand how to dance with ease and also express yourself in a way that allows you to enjoy the Tango that exists in the person dancing with you.
We look forward to seeing you!
Un abrazo!
Lautaro and Alejandro
📌 ADDITIONAL INFO
BIOGRAPHIES
🇦🇷 LAUTARO CANCELA
Dancer, Maestro and choreographer representative of the tango aesthetic of the late 1990s. He has frequently served in recent years as a jury member at the Buenos Aires City Tango Championship and the Tango World Championship, in both the Pista and Stage categories.
Lautaro is a stage dancer with extensive international experience and great command of the stage. His dancing is characterized by sophisticated elegance, virtuosity and refined tanguero lines. He developed this aesthetic during his time with Tango x 2, directed by Miguel Ángel Zotto (2003–2006), and was also part of the casts of Tanguera, by Mora Godoy, and Tramatango, by Milena Plebs.
He has partnered major Argentine names such as Karina Piazza, Gachi Fernández, Milena Plebs, Soledad Rivero, Lucila Segura and Vanina Iurisci, among others. He is choreographer and director of the show «Otoño».
He also has extensive experience as a teacher in the milongas of Buenos Aires and has performed at most of the city’s major milongas.
Lautaro Cancela Tango and Vanina Iurisci in Tango x 2. Nochero soy (2003). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BLW2kW3P1c
🇦🇷 ALEJANDRO LAGUNA
Dancer, teacher, musician and researcher in Performing Arts (PhD), with almost three decades of experience in the milongas of Buenos Aires and 27 years leading Milonga d’A Barraca in Lisbon. His relationship with the arts began at an early age, first through music and later expanding into dance.
His tango teaching brings together the sensitivity of the embrace, experience on the dance floor, and a long-term engagement with dance technique and movement analysis. For 15 years, he trained in dance technique with Barbora Hruskova, former principal dancer of the CNB and rehearsal director, and worked for 15 years as an assistant teacher at the Escola Superior de Dança in Lisbon.
His research focuses on the biomechanics of the body in tango, movement microanalysis, intersubjectivity, and bodily and musical communication. He has published in Research in Dance Education (Q1), and his work is cited in international academic literature. He is the author of an article indexed in databases of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC, USA).
His publications also include interviews with renowned dancers such as Graciela González, Claudio Villagra and Milena Plebs, focused on understanding and transmitting the bodily, musical and pedagogical experience of tango. www.tangoportugal.com/en/biography
He has also developed stage performance work through projects that bring Fado and Tango into dialogue. https://fado.carrd.co/
🔵 THE MAESTROS
For a decade, Lautaro and Alejandro have met in Buenos Aires and Lisbon to practice, talk and think together about the tango body and movement analysis. Their experiences and sensitivities have nourished a shared pursuit: how to transmit that 'porteño' quality recognized in the way one walks, inhabits the music and communicates while dancing.
This workshop grows out of that work. Both dance, demonstrate, explain and guide the practice from their own experiences.
Lautaro and Alejandro place the body at the center in order to make perceptible the aspects of movement they understand as CADENCE, ELEGANCE and CONNECTION, helping each participant explore them in their own dancing.
Link Workshop
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WKuNKVDbouUwd0UjWAsFFBT3JTy9x1moMJxZJbJdK4w/edit?usp=sharing
