Jeff Kaufman wrote: > > So lots of people come for a while, then stop. Some of the people > who stay around are just people who really like dancing. Many > others, though, are ones who have broadened into other community > roles: calling, playing, organizing, running sound. > > Maybe some musicians lose interest in dancing, like other people who > lose interest in dancing, but instead of disappearing they remain > somewhat connected, playing for dances? >
I decided to make a graph of this for me: http://sccs.swarthmore.edu/~cbr/files/2006_2011.png It's not perfect [1], but it does show that I've been performing more and dancing less over time. It also doesn't include organizing, which is harder for me to measure, but has gone up a lot. Jeff [1] Performing means calling, playing, or sitting in. From 2008-06-03 to 2008-09-09 I was working at pinewoods, where I did a lot of dancing and not very much performing, but I wasn't recording activities. I hurt my knee in march 2011, and while it is mostly better I've been dancing less. During the school years 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 I was going to swarthmore folkdance class regularly, so it's not on the schedule. I played for one class a week and danced for one class a week (at which I usually called one dance). Those months could be bumped up by 3 in each (on average). Data is from my past [2]. I started keeping that log about three months after getting into dancing, winter break 2005-2006, though I had danced occasionally earlier. [2] http://sccs.swarthmore.edu/~cbr/past.html
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