Alejandro Larenas & Marisol Morales
Alejandro Larenas & Marisol Morales
Argentinean maestros of Tango dance and culture.
Exploring was a mission, understanding a need and learning a desire.
Their studies in Tango started 24 years ago, they have always been motivated by curiosity to understand the evolution of this dance from its roots.
Their dancing ranges from pure tradition to mind blowing innovation.
Rich in musicality, spotless technique and a very skillful and precise teaching method to explain this popular dance.
When it comes to dancing it is all about improvisation!
Alejandro & Marisol started dancing tango in 1998,
in 2004 they had crossed their path and they became a professional couple.
Since then they have been teaching and performing to renowned places in Buenos Aires such as:
Club Gricel, La Ideal, Cochabamba 444, La Viruta Tango, Salon Canning, Practica X, El Motivo Tango, Viva la Pepa Milonga, at the show "Tango new Generation" held under the CITA International Tango Festival (2006, 2007) and Misterio Tango Festival Argentina (2017).
They have made more than 35 tango tours all around the world to participate in Seminars, Shows and Tango Festivals, including highlights:
Montreal Tango Festival (2006 - 2009), The International Festival of Rimini (2009), 13 Hamburg Tango Festival (2010), 14th Anniversary Universo Tango (2011), San Remo Tango Festival (2010), TangOtoño Innsbruck (2010), Tangoconsharm, Egypt (2010), The Smith Tango Festival in Santa Monica, Los Angeles. (2010), International Istanbul Tango Week (2011). Primavera Festival, Zurich (2012). Lisbon Tango Festival (2013). Marca de Tango Festival, Treviso. (2013-2018). Washington Tango Weekend (2014), Istanbul Tango Experience (2015), Pisa Tango Festival (2015), Meditango Festival, Rome (2015), Days of tango Festival Saint Petersburg (2015 -2016), Philadelphia Tango Festival (2016), Australian Tango Festival (2017), Toronto Tango Festival (2014-2016-2019), Porteño Tango week in Sydney (2019) Karlsruhe Tango Festival (2019), Beijing Tango Marathon and Seminar (2019).
Second performance after 2 years of Pandemic in Krakow November 2021
In 2011 moved to Athens, Greece, Europe and they started collaborating with TANGart Athens.
Since 2019 they are part of the direction of this school, where they have regular lessons, seminars and more activities.
TANGO ONLINE
In the period of the Pandemia they dedicated their time to online projects:
"Tango Stories Through the Embrace" dedicated to understanding the evolution of the dance.
"Tango Stories on the Radio" a cultural program with stories, full of curiosities and special audio recordings.
"The Man and Woman Behind the Music" is dedicated to understanding how much of the personality of an orchestra director or a singer is reflected in their music.
Tango Stories Through the Embrace for the first time in a live conference interacting in a tango lesson exploring the dance was presented in Lausanne in November 2021 at Coco Gardel.
Dancing in Buenos Aires Canning Salon
Dancing in Toronto
Dancing in Athens
"Acepto el Reto"
In December 2021 they presented the first program in Youtube dedicated to challenge the tango dance:
Acepto el Reto (we accept the challenge) is a meeting among professional tango dancers to challenge the skills, explore new possibilities and find new ideas for practice and develop the dance.