One of our regional groups dances 1st and 3rd Saturdays. These are standard contra dance evenings with expectations for a mixture of novice and experienced dancers. When there is a 5th Saturday in the month, they have a special advanced contra dance. This has worked pretty well. Occasionally a novice dancer will attend, but the experienced dancers are usually able to bring the rare novice along for the ride.
Sent from my iPad On Aug 25, 2012, at 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Send Organizers mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/organizers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Organizers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Variety (Chrissy Fowler) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:10:36 -0400 > From: Chrissy Fowler <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Organizers] Variety > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > >> Have other groups tried things like this?? Would a >> pattern like "3rd >> Sundays are contras, 1st Sundays anything goes" be too much >> for people >> to remember? [2] Would it hurt our community, because people >> who have >> come to expect one thing from BIDA (contras) would come to >> 1st Sundays >> expecting that and be disappointed? >> >> Jeff Kaufman >> Boston MA >> > > You could think of it like dances at the Greenfield MA Guiding Star Grange. > Each Friday (or Sat) dance has its own flavor, in part because of who's > organizing it. > Some people dance every Saturday night, others may choose. > > Or you could think of it as if BIDA were organizing two different dance > series. > (As you know, NEFFA does this with the Thurs night dance and the Family dance) > Third Sunday BIDA dance is a contra dance. > First Sunday BIDA dance is a wonderful variety. > Both are lots of fun. > You could even market/publicize them separately. > > In any case, you can't be responsible for people who choose not to pay > attention to your clearly expressed publicity information. > (If they are disappointed because of misguided expectations, perhaps they'll > tune in more next time.) > Plus, they might actually be pleasantly surprised by something unexpected. > Chrissy Fowler > Belfast ME > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Organizers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/organizers > > > End of Organizers Digest, Vol 38, Issue 3 > *****************************************
