What time do the dances start? Are people leaving because it's too late for them on a Monday night? Could you start earlier?
At our calling parties, where space is limited, the ideal number of people is 10 - there is always eighty per cent of the people dancing, and there are never more than two people not dancing. With eight people, it goes back and forth between 50% and 100%, so on average, just 75%. With six people, it's 67%. With twelve, it's 83% on average, but every other time, there are four people not dancing. And so forth. So, ten. It's been a dream to go through the triplet repertoire and find the good ones. If you do it, let us know what you find! M E On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Meg Dedolph <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have a question about dance length - not the length of time you run a > particular dance, but the length of an evening of dancing. In Chicago, we > recently went from a three-hour Monday night dance to a two-and-a-half hour > Monday night dance. Some dancers like ending earlier, some really hate it > and others don't seem to care. > >From a caller's perspective, will you generally keep calling contras when > there are three or four couples left? I know one can always call squares or > triplets, or ask the band to play waltzes, but I'm specifically curious > about contras. Do people think there's a minimum number of dancers necessary > for a contra line? I've danced in four-couple contra lines, and I don't > think it's a whole lot of fun. And I've been the caller at 10:45 p.m. trying > to call a square dance, which I'm not good at yet, and I don't think that's > a lot of fun either. > Thanks for any input you all have.... > Meg > > > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > -- For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle And the merry love to dance. ~ William Butler Yeats
