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Re: attracting new/young folks

Sept. 17, 2001, 6:31 p.m. (Message 27395, in reply to message 27390)

New Scotland (Edinburgh Uni) tend to have that problem, and last year
was worse than usual in that we kept getting large groups of beginers
all the way through the year.  A group of us got together and put
together a list of dances which were then graded for their difficulty
and also for how often they had been done.  This gave us a list of
dances that were not known to the majority of our members, but were
within the realms of dancability for new dancers.  I think it did
work, as we were able to keep more of our beginers than usual, and
most of the "old faithful brigade" kept coming too.

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