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Dianna Shipman

Re: attracting new/young folks

Sept. 17, 2001, 1:35 a.m. (Message 27391, in reply to message 27390)

I think it depends on how an event is advertised - if prior experience is
needed that should be made clear at the time tickets or sold or even stated
on the tickets - if you say it's open to everyone then you need to be
prepared to rearrange the program.  If I do a program I often have in mind a
possible alternate easy dance for every harder dance on the program; I find
that brand new people after one or two dances usually are glad to rest a bit
while experienced dancers do a more difficult dance.  And I have remind our
experienced dancers if they want to have anyone to dance with 10 years from
now they need to be patient with new people since natural attrition tends to
reduce numbers :-)
Dianna
Houston, Texas