Re: [Callers] Recruiting new dancers

<call...@sharedweight.net> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [Callers] Recruiting new dancers Thank you all for these great ideas. I agree that the square dance connection is a turn-off to lots of new dancers considering contras.  I just completed a flyer for an upcomin

Re: [Callers] Recruiting new dancers

Thank you all for these great ideas. I agree that the square dance connection is a turn-off to lots of new dancers considering contras. I just completed a flyer for an upcoming dance here and this discussion has influenced my design. I love putting the musician and band names on the flyer

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My apologies to Spider! I never checked with Julia about authorship of the ideas that were used at Brown U..assumption on my part. Thank you Martha for setting the record straight! Linda Leslie On Sep 27, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Martha Edwards wrote: Just to set a record straight, I believe

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Just to set a record straight, I believe it was Spider Vetter who came up with the "Ants-Pants-Contradance" idea. My kid went to UChicago about the time she started the UChicago dance, and I heard the story back then. It was such a great idea I've been bragging on her ever since, and feel she

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t is why I dance. ~Hans Bos~ ~ From: Greg McKenzie<greken...@gmail.com> To: Caller's discussion list<call...@sharedweight.net> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:41 AM Subject: Re: [Callers] Recruiting new dancers Thank You Richard for this topic. You did a great job of describing th

[Callers] recruiting new dancers

We are a college town - Gainesville FL - and have had very few young people until recently when a committed contra dancer moved here from SC to go to school and came to dance with us. She started a club on campus and now we have dances on campus as well as our regular dances and are having a

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Several local colleges have occasional dances that are free at least for students. They get a lot of first timers who at least then know what it's about if they see a poster for a local dance. As far as I know all these dances are instigated by either students or staff who are already dancers

Re: [Callers] Recruiting new dancers

-Original Message- List-Post: callers@lists.sharedweight.net Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:41:25 am To: "Caller's discussion list" <call...@sharedweight.net> From: "Greg McKenzie" <greken...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Callers] Recruiting new dancers

Re: [Callers] Recruiting new dancers

om life. I can only be joyful and whole, that is why I dance. ~Hans Bos~ ~ From: Greg McKenzie<greken...@gmail.com> To: Caller's discussion list<call...@sharedweight.net> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:41 AM Subject: Re: [Callers] Recruitin

Re: [Callers] Recruiting new dancers

gmail.com> >To: Caller's discussion list <call...@sharedweight.net> >Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:41 AM >Subject: Re: [Callers] Recruiting new dancers > >Thank You Richard for this topic. > >You did a great job of describing the situation.  Word of mouth is key.

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Thank You Richard for this topic. You did a great job of describing the situation. Word of mouth is key. All of the other methods of "getting the word out" are ancillary at best and should be regarded as serving to support the word of mouth effort. Flyers, for example, are there to remind

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Luke, While looking through old email messages, I found your query about new dancers and the thread of responses. I'd never read them until now (think I was away then), so forgive me my considerable delay in responding. I attend and call a number of dances in New Hampshire, and a few in Mass.

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As Dave's fellow board member at BIDA, I thought it would be good to note that this is a relatively new policy for us. After just three months, though, we have gone from 2-6 new people at the introductory workshop on average to 20 people at our April dance. I think that people are more likely

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On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:16:17 -0400, Delia Clark wrote: > With the mixture of new dancers, lingering families, high school > age folks, we haven't been able to provide the kind of scene dance > gypsies seem to prefer, but we have had some very kind and generous > experienced dancers frequent our

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Donev <luke.do...@gmail.com> > To: "Caller's discussion list" <call...@sharedweight.net> > Subject: [Callers] Recruiting new dancers > Message-ID: > <o2p243d1eda1004291047if0260372ue7df1db3acba2...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset

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wow, alot of good stuff here. We in Buffalo have been struggling with much the same thing as everywhere else it seems. We have been having records number of dancers (for our area). Last week was 72 dancers! Unfortunately they are mostly middle aged women. Our difficulty is attracting high school

[Callers] Recruiting new dancers

from Luke Donev: > The post on walk-throughs for new dancers got me thinking about > recruiting new dancers. (...) > I feel like the venues for dances are usually such that folks don't > randomly wander in. If folks show up for a first time, they've decided > to come (or were brought). Our

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Thanks for all the input on walk-throughs -- lots to think about! I know that this is slightly off-topic, but I wanted to share a different angle on recruiting new dancers -- the slow way! We started a monthly dance a few years ago. As our principal goal as an organizing group was to

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I, too, would love to hear evaluations of success from organizers, especially, who have tried this idea and others. (Thanks Dave!) -JP Gender Free Another group that gives second-dance-free coupons to newcomers is the Jamaica Plain Gender Free dance. Even as an experienced dancer, this made

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Luke: I'm most involved with BACDS in the San Francisco Bay Area, which sponsors a bunch of different dance series (English dances in Berkeley on alternate Wednesdays and fourth Saturdays, San Francisco on second Saturdays, Palo Alto on 1st/3d/5th Fridays, Mountain View on 1st/3d/5th Wednesdays;

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Luke and everybody, Several communities have ways of doing this. Some let first-timers in for free, and yes, there are dances that give coupons for the second dance free (Glenside, PA does that, and so does one of the Glen Echo dances, I think). One thing that has worked for our dances is

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Many men fear the D-word ("dancing? err") Women who want to invite men should say "Hey, want to come to a PARTY with me?" Lindsay Morris CEO, TSMworks Tel. 1-859-539-9900 lind...@tsmworks.com On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Luke Donev wrote: >

[Callers] Recruiting new dancers

The post on walk-throughs for new dancers got me thinking about recruiting new dancers. This straddles dance caller and dance organizer, but I'd like to hear people's responses. I'm curious about people's experiences recruiting new dancers. I've seen several dances that do a lower cost for first