Help attendees get to know each other
Members who join your event can explore fellow attendees’ tango profiles. Names, home cities and dance roles help them put a face to a name and recognise people when they meet.
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For tango event organizers
Bring dancers together around your tango event
Give your festival, marathon or milonga a community space where dancers can discover fellow attendees, find partners and arrange shared rides and accommodation.
Share your program and updates in the same place, helping dancers prepare before arrival and stay informed during the event.
- Free to create
- Keep your own ticketing and registration
- Less coordination for you
Give dancers a reason to connect before they arrive
A tango event brings people together on the dance floor. El Compas helps those connections start earlier, with tango profiles, partner requests and practical travel plans linked to your event.
Make finding a tango partner easier
Give dancers a place to post partner requests for your event. Organizers can see who is looking and help make introductions, while dancers discuss their plans directly.
Help dancers organise the journey
Travelling alone or trying to manage the cost of a festival weekend? Attendees can look for or offer rides and accommodation, or find someone to share a room. These practical connections can make attending easier to plan.
For organizers
More connection for dancers. Less coordination for you.
El Compas gives dancers a place to sort out the practical side themselves, so your inbox is not where every request ends up.
Let dancers arrange their plans together
Partners, room sharing and rides, without every introduction going through you. Dancers find roommates, rides and partners themselves, and you can still see who is looking and help where it matters.
Help travelling dancers discover your event
Clear event information, connected to the wider dancer network, lets dancers who are planning a visit to your city find your event.
Keep your registration process
Add El Compas as the community space around your event. Keep your website, your ticketing and your registration exactly as they are.
Keep your tango event information together
Share a program dancers can consult
Add your workshops, milongas and other activities so attendees can check what is happening and when. During the event, dancers can open the schedule on their phones.
Publish event updates
Share announcements and practical information in your event space. Give dancers one place to consult the latest details.
Give your community a place to gather
Let dancers ask questions and coordinate plans around the event. Keep the conversation connected to the people, program and activities they are coming for.
Stay connected after the event
Members who joined can recognise the people they met and find each other again once the event is over.
Create your tango event on El Compas, it’s free
You can get started yourself. Create an account, submit your organizer request and set up your event after approval.
Join El Compas
Create your free tango profile in the app.
Submit your organizer request
Open Events, select Create and follow the steps to request organizer access.
Set up your event and invite dancers
Once approved, add your event details and program. Share your invitation link or QR code so dancers can join.
Questions about getting started? The organizer FAQ has the answers.
For milonga organizers
Running a regular milonga?
Create your milonga as a tango event on El Compas. Dancers join with their tango profile, and members who joined can explore the attendee list.
Help newcomers recognise fellow dancers, give regulars a way to put names to familiar faces, and make your event visible to dancers visiting your city.
Welcome newcomers and travelling dancers
Arriving at an unfamiliar milonga can feel easier when dancers can recognise some of the people attending.
Help regulars remember familiar faces
Tango profiles give joined members context about fellow attendees, including names and home cities.
Let visitors discover your milonga
Create an event with clear location and date information so travelling dancers can discover it when planning their visit.
Create it as an event, then share one invitation link or QR code.
Manage anywhere
Manage your event from desktop or mobile
Prepare your event at your desk and access your organizer tools when you’re at the venue.
Prepare and manage on desktop
- Edit event details and practical information.
- Organise your program.
- Manage participants and invitations.
- Publish announcements and updates.
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Sample Tango Marathon
OverviewEvent DetailsParticipantsCo-OrganizersProgramAnnouncementsInvitationsSettings
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120Attendees
3Organizers
4Pending invite requests
9Pending email invites
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Stay connected at the event
- Check the attendee list.
- Manage invitations.
- Consult the role balance.
- Publish updates from your phone.
←Sample Tango Marathon
OverviewProgramSettings
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A fuller event-management experience, built for desktop
120Attendees
48Connections
9Pending invites
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Invitation requests4 waiting ›
Event role balanceAttendee-declared
Quick actions
Publish an updateInvite attendees
Illustration with sample data, not a real event.
Partnerships
Partner with El Compas
Want to introduce El Compas to your event community? Discuss a partnership that can include help setting up your event space, support introducing the app to your dancers, website visibility and Instagram promotion.
We’ll agree together on the collaboration and what each side contributes.
Questions from tango organizers
Is creating an event on El Compas free?
Yes. Creating an event and using the current organizer tools is free.
Can I keep my own website, ticketing and registration?
Yes. El Compas adds a community space around your event. Your website, ticketing and registration process stay exactly as they are.
Do I have to coordinate partners, rides and rooms myself?
No. Dancers can find partners, rides and roommates themselves in the app. You can still see who is looking for a partner and help make introductions.
Do I need to contact El Compas before getting started?
No. Join the app and submit your organizer request. Once approved, you can set up your event and invite dancers.
How do dancers join my event?
Share your event invitation link or QR code. Dancers join through El Compas with their tango profile.
Who can see the attendee profiles?
The attendee list is available to members who joined the event. Personal attendee information is not displayed on this public website.
Can I create a milonga on El Compas?
Yes. Create your milonga as an event, add its details and invite dancers through a link or QR code.
Does El Compas handle ticket sales or event registration?
Use El Compas for your event community, program and coordination. Joining the event space does not replace your ticket purchase or registration process.
Start building connections before the first tanda
Create your event, invite your dancers and give them a place to prepare for the experience together.
Create your tango event