Software for Argentine tango schools
Classes that need as many leaders as followers, a milonga every week, and couples who take privates together. DanceFlow was made for ballroom studios first, and partner dancing is what it knows best.
Leader and follower balance Milongas with a door Couples and privates Visiting teachers PracticasWhat a tango school runs on, and where it lives in DanceFlow
Each row is something a tango school does every week, beside the part of DanceFlow that does it today.
What you run In DanceFlow- Classes balanced by role
- Leader and follower caps on each class, each side with its own waitlist, and a minimum to run that cancels a thin class in good time and tells everyone on it.
- The weekly milonga
- A party with a door: member, student, guest and couple prices, the room limit and walk-ins, repeated every week on the studio's own clock.
- Practicas
- A practica is a weekly class with its own register, drop-in price and packages.
- Couples
- A couple keeps both people's own profiles; a lesson for two counts for both, and one package can serve the pair.
- Visiting teachers and festival weekends
- Two teachers on one lesson for a visiting couple, workshops on your public schedule, and a weekend as a camp with its own timetable, packages and private lesson slots.
- Privates
- Private lessons booked into each teacher's own availability, packages with lessons left, and notes that carry forward to the next lesson.
A week at a tango school
Classes, the practica, privates and the milonga, in one place.
- Monday
Beginners course
The new course fills by role. When followers outnumber leaders, the extra followers wait on their own list and are offered a place as leaders enrol.
- Wednesday
Practica
Regulars use their pack, newcomers pay the drop-in price, and the register keeps both.
- Thursday
Privates
A couple preparing a performance takes two privates from the one package they share, and the teacher's note from last time is open before they walk in.
- Saturday
Milonga
The door lets members in free when their plan includes it, charges couples the couple price, and says Full at the room limit.
- Sunday
The visiting teachers
A weekend of workshops runs as a camp: its timetable, its passes, and private lesson slots dancers book themselves, some of them from other schools.
Made for ballroom first, and why that helps a tango school
Ballroom is partner dancing, and DanceFlow was built around the partnership: who leads, who follows, who dances with whom and who pays for whom. A tango school gets all of that without workarounds.
- Couples, dance partners and the packages they share are records of their own.
- Leaders and followers are a setting on every class, not a note in the margin.
- A milonga, a practica and a festival weekend are three things DanceFlow already runs.
The parts that matter most to a tango school
Each one opens the page that goes deeper.
For studio owners The schedule, the money and the people, for whoever runs the school. Students and families Dancers book, enrol and see what is left on their package. For teachers Each teacher's week and lesson mode, with last time's note. Independent teachers For the tango teacher who works alone or teaches at several schools. Every feature Every feature in one list, with what is still to come.What it does not do yet
What DanceFlow does not do for a tango school today, said plainly.
- Not there yet: Partner rotation in class is not recorded. The register knows who came and which role they dance, not who danced with whom.
- Not there yet: There is no tanda and cortina planner. The rounds a party can plan are built for ballroom practice rounds, not for a tango DJ's night.
- Not there yet: The style filter on the public schedule uses DanceFlow's ballroom style list, where Argentine tango falls under Social and Nightclub.
- Not there yet: Paying online needs your own Stripe account. Without it, the door takes the money at the studio and records it.
Common questions
Can DanceFlow keep leaders and followers even in a class?
Yes. Switch on Leader and follower balance in Settings › Lessons, then set the caps on each class. When one side is full, the next dancer on that side waits on its own list while the other side keeps booking.
How do we run the milonga door?
Open the milonga on the schedule and press Open the door. Admit a student or add a walk-in, switch to Couple to let two in at the couple price, and the door counts who is in against what the room holds. A membership plan can include it.
Can a couple share one package?
Yes. A lesson for the two of them takes one credit from the pair's package, or one from each when the lesson type says each pays, and one partner can pay for the other's own lessons too.
Can visiting teachers run a weekend with us?
Yes. A workshop weekend runs as a camp with its own timetable, coaches, packages and private lesson slots, and dancers from other schools can join from its public link.
Is DanceFlow only for ballroom studios?
It was made for ballroom first. The classes, milongas, couples and privates a tango school runs on are part of the same product and the same plan, and what is not built yet is on this page. See pricing.
Read more on /learn
Argentine Tango Argentine tango from the Río de la Plata: its history, the embrace, milonga and vals, typical tempo, basic steps and how it differs from ballroom tango.Other kinds of studio on DanceFlow
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DanceFlow is in early access, and we are working closely with the first studios and organizers using it.