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: -------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------- This extract can be used (without attribution) for any RSCDS promoting purpose. :-) Regards, Alex.
June 9, 2006, 10:25 a.m. (Message 45475, in reply to message 45474)
And if you put 'at least 180 times' (to account for walk throughs :>)) it sounds even better or you could Calculate the number of Branches and groups, multiply with 52 (weekly classes - 52 makes up for some branches having more than 1 class, but not for a full year and the groups we don't know about) - add 1 function per number of branch/group pr year and you should have an impressive number of gatherings world-wide - if you then want to take an approximate number of dances done in an evening and multiply that with your previous total, you have an even better figure to talk about. Or you could shorten that to: You can dance every day of the week all year round throughout the world. Pia