TangoCMS – Content Management for Dance and Cultural Organizations

A tango school, a salsa studio, a folk dance group, a small theatre or a festival team all face the same question sooner or later: how do we keep our website current without a web developer, and how does it work together with newsletters, social media and event listings? This site collects plain-language notes on exactly that – content management for dance and cultural organizations.

Start here

• Content management systems, then and now – from the open-source PHP systems of the 2000s, including the original TangoCMS, to WordPress and today’s options.
• Choosing a CMS for a dance school or cultural organization – what the site needs to do, the three common routes, and the questions to ask before deciding.
• The website as a hub – how the website, newsletter, social media, event directories and local press fit together.
• AI tools for dance and cultural organizations – where AI helps with texts and event information, and where it does harm.

Where the name comes from

This domain once hosted TangoCMS, an independent open-source PHP content management system developed by volunteers from 2007 until the project ended in 2013. Despite the name, that software had nothing to do with Argentine tango, and this site is not its continuation. We keep a small, factual archive about it, because many old links still point here: The original TangoCMS project, with its release history and security advisories.

Today the name is read literally: tango – standing for dance and culture – plus content.

Why these topics

The people behind this site build event directories and work with AI tools for structuring event information. Many dance and cultural organizations struggle with the same things: dates scattered across channels, websites nobody dares to update, and very little time. The notes here are written for them. There is no software to buy on this site.

Questions or corrections: [email protected]. More about the site: About.