strathspey@strathspey.org:45474

Alexandre Rafalovitch

Making RSCDS number look better (was Murder in Canada - Off Topic)

June 8, 2006, 11:04 p.m. (Message 45474)

> Can we find a way to pphrase the numbers so that people
> think we're counting the dance events, but  we're  actually  counting
> the  individual dances done at each event?  Even better, can we count
> the dancers on the floor for each individual dance,  and  report  the
> total  such  a  way that readers think we're counting the SCD events?
> I'd bet that a good PR person could manage this ...

Well, this is sort of on topic.

We could report number of times a dance was danced. That would of
course be a separate count for each set. So, say 9 sets per event, 20
events per year including (say) The Robertson Rant and we have:
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The Robertson Rant was danced 180 times last year. That's nearly every
second day, even if you go easy on Xmas/New Year. And that's just one
dance. And just in USA/Germany/CountryX. When you consider more than
10 thousand dances in the current RSCDS collection and worldwide
membership, this makes for a lot of demand on slipstop.
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This extract can be used (without attribution) for any RSCDS promoting
purpose. :-)

Regards,
   Alex.