Re: [Callers] Increase in Youth Attendance

2012-10-25 Thread Mary Collins
Bob (and everyone) This is a great observation, I think from a visitor to your dance perspective, your dance has a fairly good number of younger dancers. Our dance for instance has not as much, although we've had an insurgance of "college age" people in the last couple of years. It's been really

Re: [Callers] Increase in Youth Attendance

2012-10-23 Thread Kalia Kliban
One issue that can be a show stopper is that many dance halls simply don't have a place that _can_ be a "kid area". A dance series that's lucky enough to find an affordable hall with a good floor is likely to stop looking right there. They're ahead of the curve. If the hall has a kitchen, th

Re: [Callers] Increase in Youth Attendance

2012-10-22 Thread Andrea Nettleton
I didn't note when this spot aired, but am glad contra has gotten some national attention. Atlanta, where I dance and call, has definitely seen a surge of youth in recent years, not due to the media coverage. I wanted to say a quick word about Jonathan's mention that young parents often leave

Re: [Callers] Increase in Youth Attendance

2012-10-20 Thread David Harding
Can someone point me to last week's spots? I'm having trouble finding anything recent. The included link, and listeners' letters a few days later, were from July 2010. David Millstone posted a note on it at the time and there was some follow-up. http://www.sharedweight.net/pipermail/callers/

Re: [Callers] Increase in Youth Attendance

2012-10-20 Thread Jonathan Sivier
On 10/20/2012 11:16 AM, bob...@aol.com wrote: Has anyone seen an increase in Youth attendance at local dances since the NPR spots aired last week? Here's the link to one of them. The other was with Bob Boilen, a closet contra-ist We've had an increase in attendance by young dancers, colleg

Re: [Callers] Increase in Youth Attendance

2012-10-20 Thread Greg McKenzie
Bobfab wrote: Just curious. We had a dozen local community college students come this > past week... > > Has anyone seen an increase in Youth attendance at local dances > since the NPR spots aired last week? > Here's the link to one of them. The other was with Bob Boilen, a closet > contra-ist > >

[Callers] Increase in Youth Attendance

2012-10-20 Thread bobfab
Hi All, Just curious. We had a dozen local community college students come this past week... Has anyone seen an increase in Youth attendance at local dances since the NPR spots aired last week? Here's the link to one of them. The other was with Bob Boilen, a closet contra-ist http://www.npr.or