Laura Grinbank was born in Buenos Aires on February 23, 1949.
She has got a BA in Psychology. She is a graduate from Buenos Aires University.
He worked as a psychologist for many years, both with private patients and at state institutions.

The language of the soul became a body language.
Dancing was at first a hobby, but then took over me with the force of a vortex that was beyond my will power.
Osvaldo Zotto was my first tutor, and I am grateful to him as much as I am to everyone else.
Many people were around me at the time, and from all of them I learned to love our culture more and more everyday.
However...

I met several milonga dancers or milongueros, each of them with a unique and personal flair. Every single encounter was a challenge, an adventure. It was just like daydreaming...
It was then that the essence and the significance of our popular dance was revealed to me.
It was then that the passion for dancing and expressing our ways, our essence was born, creeping up from within.
Dancing the tango nurtured my interest in its lyrics and poetry...its philosophy...its history. A record which speaks also of our own history, that of the people who were born in Buenos Aires, those mesmerized by the spell of the tango...

A popular dance, a folk dance.
The folklore of Buenos Aires...The folklore of my city.
The city where I was born, where I have lived ever since. The place where I have laughed and also shed so many tears...!
Because tango is Buenos Aires. Tango is my city, our city...
'Love your town and you shall love the world'

Intoxicated by the language of the body in motion and its infinite ways of expression.
By the game which unfolds every time we dance the tango, when we alternatively come close and then drift away from each other.
By the mirage of completeness and harmony...
I get hooked and become blind by the pleasure emanating from a fulfilling encounter -a good 'tangazo'- a warm hug and the synchronized groove...
Intoxicated by the music, the lyrics, the mystique...

Dancing the tango was no longer a hobby, an entertainment, becoming instead a new way of life.
I live to dance. I live dancing.
The dance becomes essential, starting to take on a distinctive value in itself.
In doing so, it becomes a ceremony... A sacred... religious... almost mystic ceremony...

Tango as a way of life.
My life, which from then on revolved around tango, for tango, in tango.
1990- La Imprenta, in the borough of Las Cañitas. It was there that I first tutored, never to stop ever since...
I have taught lessons in several private and public venues. Clubs. Gyms. Schools. Milongas.
Both in Argentina and abroad.
In a number of countries.
THE UNITED STATES, SWITZERLAND, BRITAIN, SWEDEN, DENMARK, ITALY.

La Imprenta, the Golf Club, Paquebot, Los Andes, La Tranquera, Italia Unita, Caribean...tango was danced for the first time in many of those venues, thus inaugurating a new and steady tango trend there, conquering fervent devotees as well, enthusiastic fans of our most paramount folk dance.

The endeavor is not yet over once the disciple has been initiated into the dance, becoming himself a dancer in his own right. Buenos Aires is full of milongas and newcomers should dare visit them totally free of constraints. Part of my task is to show them around the places, getting them to know each of those venues and the variegated dancing styles, giving them the chance to meet their peers, fostering links between them, making them stay and introducing them into that new and marvellous big family, the international tango community.

Regarding style:

In its long history, tango dancing took on different styles. Today, two distinctive styles can be recognized: tango show and dancefloor tango or ballroom tango.

The way of dancing typical of tango show is considerably different from ballroom tango, as much as the purpose of the respective dance styles. Whereas the former seeks to fascinate the viewer, the latter instead just seeks to make dancers at the ballroom feel the pleasure of dancing in itself.

Laura is a milonguera and ballroom tango teacher -she is not into tango show- and seeks to convey a sense of tango as it was danced in the ballrooms located in downtown Buenos Aires during the golden years of tango dance, between 1935 and 1955 roughly.

Her style is a steady and close hold. A few clear-cut dance steps. An overemphasized groove. Not many movements through the dancefloor and a lot of body contact between the partners, who will seek a way to become one single body. Elegance and groove prevail over flamboyant steps which are hard to do.