I'm not sure a techno dance would be a good fit for building attendance at your monthly series. The music and atmosphere are so different from what you usually feature that I don't think the enthusiasm would transfer well.
If you do want to explain it to people, videos are pretty helpful. Here's one I took Saturday night at BIDA's Spark in the Dark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOf52FQRQoQ On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Rickey Holt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi fellow organizes, > > > > I have a question for you about developing a multi-generational dance > series. I book for a series that the late Marianne Taylor ran for 22 years. > It is not a predominately 'hot-shot' dance or a regional dance gypsy magnet, > but we would like to attract more young dancers (read 12 - 42). I am > proposing that we run a techno-dance for one of our monthly dances. I need > to describe it to our current dancers and convince them to give it a try if > it is going to be a success, although I have yet to attend one myself. Many > organizers have the hope of building a multi-generational dance community > and we have that same hope at the dance I am describing, but I wonder if > that is reasonable. If organizing events that will appeal to younger dancers > is going to drive away older dancers we will not be creating a tolerant, > multi-generational, community. > > Your thoughts on describing techno to dancers who have never seen it (in a > way that might intrigue them) and on the problem of developing a > multi-generational dance community. > > Thanks, > > Rickey Holt, > > Fremont, NH > > > > _______________________________________________ > Organizers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/organizers
