I teach and dance the genuine Argentine Tango social dance as it is danced in Buenos Aires and the Milongas (a social dance) around the world.

The way that I teach integrates the beginning dancer into their breath and their balance, connects them to their imagination through the music and builds a strong and independent relationship with their dance partner of the moment.

I teach new dancers to be comfortable with many styles of the social dance: Milonguero or Club Style often called “Close embrace” whether through the shared axis or the independent axis, as well as the open figure style of dancing with a fluid embrace.

Argentine Tango is an improvisational social dance that changes lives, and AnaLinda fell under it’s spell 6 years ago. Through Tango she discovered the exacting improvisational connection to partner dance and musical interpretation she had been seeking. She dances an authentic Argentine Tango both playful and elegant, with great physical dynamism, and she teaches with clarity and joy.

Social dance has been the connective tissue of her life since age 12. After dancing Jazz and Hip-hop in her 20’s, she renewed her childhood involvement with Latin social dance in her 30’s and studied Salsa and Mambo intensively with Cha cha, Bolero, Cumbia, Bachata interspersed. She continues to dance these, but Salsa is her second dance home and has influenced her Tango style. Early on a student of Tai Chi and still studying Yoga, her method of movement in the Tango utilizes these dynamic forms through concepts of stretch and release, and weight and counterweight. Her dancing utilizes exchanges of place, and has been described as both sinuous and tensile in quality.

AnaLinda has taught classes on social issues for more than 20 years and dance for 4 years, initially as an assistant to Sharna Fabiano of the Boston Tango School. For the last 3 years she has led her own group and private classes. She is a member of the faculty at the Brookline Community Center for the Arts, and at the Dance Complex. She has traveled extensively to pursue Tango passion throughout North America, and to Buenos Aires several times. She has performed extensively in the region.
Additionally, I

• assisted at the Boston Tango School from 1999 - 2002, and have been taught for the last 2 years.
• teaches as invited guest instructor for the Tango Society of Boston at the Wednesday Night Tango Break and at special events such as Tango by Moonlight and the Mardigras 2003 of Hayden and Handel Society.
• faculty of BCCA and teaches at the Dance Complex in Cambridge
• has taught independently-run classes for 2 years.
• teaches on a rotating basis at the Cambridge Tango Central pre-Milonga Class