These are ideas that the community at large came up with here at Stone Soup in Eugene, OR and some others that I added. I might just make this an evolving list. Please comment and I will update this post as an evolving article!
- Offer a showcase and/ or performances for students
- Offer social Tango parties (different than milongas)
- Offer a retreat where people stay together in one place and do more than just Tango
- Require for a class than students go to 3 other events
- A teacher takes their students on a field trip to another Tango event together
- Offer taxi dancers that wear something that designates them as such
- Form a welcoming committee where at milongas/ practicas designated people welcome any “strangers” to the event
- Publicly recognize newcomers and thank them for coming
- Publicly offer a master class
- Ask current community members to talk up tango and bring new people to an event
- Have advanced dancers join a beginner class
- After class/ milonga/ practica all go out to a restaurant/ bar and hang out together
- Have a potluck
- Watch Tango movies and talk
- Form an online community through news groups or Facebook or ?
- Switch around DJ’s so their friends come
- Have a Q & A session on a juicy Tango topic
- Have a special milonga just for beginners
- Do Guerilla tango
- Affirm people’s dancing – tell them what is good about their dancing
- Have a monthly recruiting milonga
- Eating between classes and the milonga/ practica