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
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
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
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/
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
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
>
>
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