An open embrace

Introducing Tango Sensaciones: A place to explore the sensations of our dance

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Tango Sensaciones
January 21, 2026

A bright and warm happy new year to you all! ✨

Yay - Last week I attended my first tango class and went to my first milonga of 2026. A new energy is visiting my body, and I have the intention of dancing more and getting to see more of you.

I have news I cannot wait to share.

Remember my last post, where I introduced you to the tango dancer Alla Petcheniouk?

Well, for a while, I’ve been daydreaming about collaborating with her and creating something together. We both love tango, and we both attended the same training on somatic therapy, so, in a way, there was a lot of confluence and shared aspirations. One day that might happen, I always thought.

Finally, and unexpectedly, that day arrived with the new year!

We are going to hold a space together and invite tango dancers to a circle we are calling Tango Sensaciones. It is a space to explore and dive into how dancing tango makes us feel and how we want to feel it.

Sensaciones

We were discussing many names, and then, Sensaciones felt delicious. How else can I put it?

When I say it, it comes with flavour and with feeling. We went for it.

In a world increasingly shaped by AI and algorithms, this name feels human — like, returning to our bodies, to each other, to what is immediate and alive.

I’ve decided to use Sensaciones as the new name for this newsletter. The emphasis is clear: Tango Sensaciones is about sharing what we feel when we dance tango — what moves through the body, what awakens, what lingers.

Alongside Alla, I intend to place more attention on the body — on lived experience, gentle practices and exercises, and the reflections that arise from them. We want to open this space with you.

For now, we envision a rhythm of monthly circles — online calls and shared experiences — where we gather to tune into tango through body awareness and connection.

Come and join us. The first circle will take place on January 27th at 6:00 p.m. (UK time).

What to expect: an introduction to what Tango Sensaciones is and how we think it could grow. A chance to meet and know Alla and me better. Time together to reflect and connect with other dancers, all in a gentle and welcoming atmosphere.

For now, who is Alla? Let’s hear it directly from her:

My name is Alla, and I have been dreaming up this place for almost 7 years now, 6.5 to be exact.

I started dancing tango in New York in 2012. Seven years later, in 2019, somatic trauma therapy came into my life and during the first exercise that I did I had a vision of bringing this way of learning bodily awareness and connection into the world of tango. 

Only now, writing this post I realize that it took another 7 year cycle to give birth to this place, Tango Sensaciones, where the dance and the sensations cross paths.

The synergy of the two activities build something deeper, something that wants to be explored with more care, slowness and attention. I don't want to sound too dramatic but maybe you can feel how much this work means to me. Having facilitated workshops in somatic trauma therapy during the day and dancing tango all over the world at night, dreaming to bringing these two worlds together, I have a lot of hope to what this place could grow into.

And, about Jesus:

I founded Dance in Conversation at the beginning of 2020, and for nearly four years I co-hosted monthly online discussions with a global community of dancers. During that time of lockdowns we were having conversations about relationships, boundaries, intuition in tango, and many other topics, often inviting tango maestros and experts from different disciplines.

Then in 2023, I attended a long format training on somatic therapy in Sweden. That changed my life in terms of how I relate to myself and others from what is real in my body. The insights and tools I received there have been a constant source of growing.

Over the last two years, I've re-created the Dance in Conversation newsletter, to document and share my dance journey. It revealed to me a vibrant and evolving landscape — a space where what’s alive in my dance was coming to the surface every month in written form.

I dance tango, and in Devon, UK --where I live-- I have found teachers and a community that nurtures me every week.

As we move through a time of many crises, Tango Sensaciones is our response: we will keep dancing together, keeping our humanity at the forefront.

La invitación está abierta.

Stay attuned
Jesus Acosta