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Welcome to El Abrazo —

Argentine Tango Academy

Anibal Lautaro & Valeria Maside are an Argentine professional tango couple with over 20 years of international career — teaching and performing at prestigious festivals across Russia, China, Ukraine, Italy, Spain, France, Brazil and Belgium, and dancing with world-class live orchestras.

We offer weekly tango classes in Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels for all levels. Join us for milongas, workshops, private lessons, wedding choreography, and our annual tango trips to Buenos Aires.

Tango is much more than dancing — it is culture, music, history and tradition. This is what we have been sharing with the world since 2005.

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ABOUT

Anibal Lautaro & Valeria Maside

El Abrazo Tango Academy

Tango is much more than dancing. It is culture, music, history, customs, traditions, codes. Knowing all this helps you dance better. It is what we have transmitted since we began teaching Tango around the world in 2005.

El Abrazo vzw is a community that wants to love tango and want to help us spread it.

We organize the Antwerpen Festival for 6 years and 1 year BENELUX & Nordic Countries Official Championship.

We currently offer regular classes in Antwerpen, Brussels, Destelberguen, Gent.

We organize 3 milongas a month, workshops, tango vacations, immersion trips to Buenos Aires.

You can also be part of our team. If you want to participate, if you have ideas, write to us.

Our Teachers

THE DIRECTORS

Anibal & Valeria

Thanks Oliver Pulinckx for the video!

TEACHING AROUND THE WORLD SINCE 2005

We are a couple of Argentine dancers and teachers, we represent the traditional style of Buenos Aires with a great personality and a touch of youth.
We belong to the last generation formed by real milongueros and grandmasters.

Our method and personal style of dancing has led us to travel the world with different shows or as teachers at prestigious festivals (Russia, China, Ukraine, Italy, Spain, Belgium, France, Netherlands, UK, Brazil).

Cast of the show "TANGO X 2" of Miguel Angel Zotto in 2016, 2018 and 2020.
Choreographers, producers, and directors of the show “100% Tango” and from 2015 directors, organizers and producers of the “Antwerpen Tango Festival”.
In ten years together we work to create a teaching method aiming to simplify the difficult, comfort, hug, naturalness, although without neglecting aesthetics.
Our curiosity made us take classes with many teachers and very different styles, making us experience different types of hugs, energy, techniques, and interpretations that are now very useful to exploit the capabilities of each student.

To know more about us, please visit our background below.

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