Great idea!

Format of the DJ Display Book

We all know the feeling… we are dancing, the music is playing, and our curiosity grows – what is this music we're dancing to? What is the orchestra? Who is the singer? We could go ask the DJ, and sometimes we do… but perhaps the floor is too crowded, or we don't want to break the mood, or we forget and the next tanda begins and the moment is lost… It's easy to satisfy our curiosity, to feed that desire for knowledge, with just a glance…

Features of the DJ Display Book

23 Golden Age orchestras displayed alone
69 Golden Age orchestra-with-singer combinations
9 Modern Tango bands
13 General pages
Dry-erasable back cover for writing custom tanda names
What tanda is coming up next?! We all know this moment… the tanda is wrapping up, the cortina has started, some people are already accepting the cabeceo of partners… but we wish to wait until we hear the music that's playing before we
carefully choose our partner. We usually wait for the music to begin, but sometimes we wish to know a little earlier… what's coming up? What's next? We could ask the DJ, or we wait, or take our chances. Instead, with a glance, we can easily see what the next tanda will be: Tango, vals or milonga, and the orchestra as well…

Format of the Next Tanda supplement

The Next Tanda supplement is four double-sided laminated 8.5"x14" cards. Each side displays a possibility for the next tanda: including Tango, vals, milonga, and more. It is paired with a half-height mini book, 4.25"x14", wire bound, 28 pages. The layout is in the same style as the DJ Display Book, and is a smaller compliment, to easily distinguish the next tanda from the current tanda with a glance towards the DJ table.

Features of the Next Tanda supplement

Sold only in a Package with the DJ Display Book, and includes:
4 double-sided Next Tanda cards
4 General pages in mini-book, along with:
23 Golden Age orchestras displayed by last name
Dry-erasable back cover for writing custom next tanda names
Comes in a strong clear poly envelope to store cards and book

http://www.tangotandas.com/

Salanc, habanera, candombe, milonga!

"Carreras and Perez chanted the refrain in spirited Afro-cuban fashion. The moment was charged with salanc, the Catalan word for "swing." Shoulders strted swaying. A man drummed the tabletop. A youth smacked his thighs. The music had once again demonstrated the power of habanera to jump oceans, to jump cultures, and to call, with its beat, distant peoples together.

Catalonia is a time machine. It takes us back to Buenos Aires in the second half of the neineteenth century, when habanera attracted sharp dancers to the floor. Many were Afro-Argentine. They improvised. Some of their steps came from candombe. They called the new blend the milonga." 

R.F. Thompson, "Tango The Art History of Love", p. 120

Retired from the milonga

There was a time when there were many excellent dancers in the milongas. The milongueros were going to dance regularly in the afternoon and evening and at night. The foreign population was in the minority at most milongas.
The balance has been shifting over the past several years. The economic situation and the realities of aging have changed the demographics from an Argentine majority to a foreign one in many milongas. Many older porteños aren’t able to dance as often as they would like to for two main reasons: the expense of going to a milonga and declining health. The entradas have increased to a point that many are unable to afford to dance more than once a week. The milongueros are disappearing from the milongas because they are aging and dealing with health problems. Many women say they are tired and no longer interested in dancing after so many years. That’s unfortunate, but it is the reality of social dancing in Buenos Aires.
I was on my way to a tango talk at Esquina Osvaldo Pugliese one Saturday afternoon when I decided to stop and see Hector Delgado, a milonguero who works as cashier at an ice cream shop at the corner of Boedo and Independencia. The years seem to have caught up with him. He has lost interest in going to the milongas after some sixty years. Hector at 79 continues to work four hours a day at Leoyak where he has been employed for more than forty years. He said that he won’t retire from his part-time job, because, as he puts it, “what would I do at home all day? I get to talk with people in the neighborhood.” Retirement from work isn’t an issue; but retirement from the milonga means another milonguero has left the milongas. I know that in his heart he is still married to the milonga.

http://jantango.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/retired-from-the-milonga/