Create the tango you want to see in the world

Are you ready to transform who you are in the service of tango?

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Let’s end the insanity and isolation of tango community building.

  • Burnout from trying to do it all alone

  • Beginners you worked hard to recruit and teach ghosting you

  • Intermediates stagnating, laming out and not showing up

  • Isolation from your fellow organizers, drama

  • So much work to get people to visit your community

  • Financial stress, low numbers, stretched thin, lack dancing inspiration…

Build your magical tango community without the stress

Transform your passion into a grounded practice, and change what’s possible.

  • Build lasting relationships with inspiring peers.

  • Experience mentorship from organizers at different stages in their journey.

  • Leverage proven frameworks for growth instead of reinventing everything.

  • Enjoy a flourishing community of happy dancers.

  • Most importantly, step into agency and become the author of your tango life

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Here is what you gain

as part of a high agency network

  • Confidence to step into your role unapologetically

  • Initiative to develop the partnerships you need to grow

  • Accountability to build the skills you need next

  • Clarity about how to welcome and keep beginners motivated

  • Strategy for keeping intermediates engaged, learning, and helpful

  • Coherence and scalablility with less effort and cost

  • Relief from knowing you're not carrying this alone

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How the guild supports this shift

  • Discover the magic of peer circles

    Once we ensure you’re a fit with this personal and leadership development community, you can join our monthly peer coaching circle that helps connect, unblock, and liberate tango innovators.

  • Participate in learning sprints

    Whenever it fits your schedule, you can join focused, facilitated learning sprints, where you’ll work on developing your team, and taking your programs and marketing to the next level.

  • Multiply the tango in your life

    Building community needs to feed, fuel, and nourish us. By this time next year, if you apply this work, you’ll find the amount of exciting tango in your life multiplying itself as you create new partnership and community opportunities.

We’ve got you.

We understand how it feels to want nothing more than a great local tango community, and to be overwhelmed as you try to get it off the ground.

Awaken Tango is built on 25 years of experience in building developmental communities for tango, applying the best in research and education to tango, and stewarded by Mitra Martin.

  • Being part of the Women’s Guild has given me a space to refine my own values as a community leader. Our collective intelligence creates space for conversations about responsibility, sustainability, boundaries, and long-term vision. Through gentle accountability, I’m working through some projects that will improve my tango school’s offerings and overall vibe. More important has been the feeling of not being alone as a tango organizer. Community conflict and emotional labor are isolating when you’re the one “in charge,” and hearing similar stories from others - and what they’re doing to address their problems - has helped normalize those challenges. Through our conversations, I’ve also become more alert to peaceful and pragmatic approaches to addressing tension in the community, rather than falling back on defensive patterns. I feel more sustained in my role, which creates a better experience for my students and patrons.

    Jewel A.

  • I feel so grateful for the opportunity to participate in the Women’s Tango Guild. The relationships I'm building with other guild members help me feel less alone in the challenges of doing tango community building in my small town. It has been so helpful to hear from each person's viewpoint and experiences. I have been able to show up to several crucial conversations and make decisions from a more grounded and thoughtful place than I would have otherwise. Mitra brings a truly wonderful approach to facilitation and fostering a supportive group environment where I feel seen, heard, and that my contributions are welcome and valued. I am learning so much from all the resources and individual coaching. If you are a woman or gender-expansive person in tango, I encourage you to come join the fun!

    Morgan L.

What you receive

  • Monthly facilitated coaching circle on Zoom: bring challenges, leave with new directions

  • 1:1 matches with a fellow badass leader to stay accountable, energized, connected

  • An organic move-at-the-pace-of-trust online community where we listen deeply and share curated inspirations

  • A toolkit of tested frameworks including a reference curriculum and rubrics, to save you time

  • Guild members can access private 1:1 community development coaching for reduced rates and more flexible scheduling

  • You are the first to know about pop-up events and new special opportunities to meet, network and co-create with other innovators and leaders

  • Plan your year around focused, leadership and personal development learning sprints that will uplift and grow your community and practice

How to get involved

Join a conscious community of practitioners
holding a container with grace and committed to the long game.

Base Guild Membership: Start coming to transformative monthly peer coaching circles, and join our online community. $29/month, or $19/month when billed annually.

This is less than the full cost of traveling to a single tango festival, and what you’ll gain is far more lasting: a curated, facilitated space for real development, and trusted allies to grow something new in your community.

Seasonal Learning Sprints: Each season, we offer a special, focused learning sprint to deepen guild members practice. These are 4-8 weeks and run from $147-$497.

Tango Worldbuilding Pop-Ups: We host intimate pop-up events around the country and offer early invitation, special discounts, and collaboration opportunities for guild members.

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FAQs

  • The guild is for those who are interested in learning and see personal and professional development as an important part of their tango teaching and community leadership journey. The founding cohort of the tango guild is for open-minded, enthusiastic women, broadly defined. If you identify with women’s experiences in tango leadership, you are welcome to apply.

  • We are looking for open-minded, flexible thinkers who embrace innovation, dance both roles, and are committed to learning. Zero drama, complaining, or victimization. We are a collective of amazing, powerful, dynamic, badass, future-focused tango humans. 

  • We welcome 150 founding members in 2026. Membership rates will go up with each new cohort.

  • You will become a community leader and tango facilitator who is more capable of bringing your dreams for your community to life. Your path will be your own, from tiny hacks, to big program redefinitions to underlying system care. One single well-chosen resource or thoughtful conversation could save you months of spinning your wheels. A curated circle of peers who understand your challenges is invaluable. Your mentor will support your success.

  • Most people who are successful invest in mentorship and professional communities, because it works. A whole year guild membership is less than the cost of traveling to a single tango festival, and what you’ll gain is far more lasting: a curated, facilitated space for real development, and trusted allies to grow something new in your community. If you have the resources to travel for tango, consider directing some of your professional development budget to tango guild. 

  • Please only apply to this if you are willing to make the time in your calendar and the space in your heart for new ideas and new people. Expect to spend 3-4 focused hours a month building something that will serve your community for years. 

  • We get it. But that feeling of being stretched thin will never change if you keep doing what you’re doing without zooming out, getting perspective, and developing new strategies and foundations.

  • This isn’t an off-the-shelf solution that will “work” or “not work.” This is an invitation to become part of a community of practice that will uplift your approach to organizing. We value autonomy, experimentation, and respect for local tango.

  • Payment plans for the annual membership can be arranged, and we have a few seats available at a supporting tier. Please contact us.

  • Thank you! Convening community and holding space is work. Creating resources, holding space, and offering a high quality container of support takes real time and energy. We welcome your support. Please set up a time to meet and explore.

  • As the guild grows, we’d love to involve guest speakers, masterclasses, trainings, pop-up events, partnerships and collaborations. Please contact us. 

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Don’t let isolation keep you thinking small

You deserve a supportive community of professionals.

If you’re struggling to build a local tango community, the feelings of burnout and isolation can be overwhelming. Awaken Tango changes that. By applying to our guild, you will not only gain access to exceptional frameworks for building thriving classes, but you’ll also find the camaraderie and inspiration you need to keep your passion alive. Together, we’ll create a lively community where every dancer feels confident and supported, leading to classes that flourish and students who stay engaged.

Let’s do this together

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