[Organizers] Re: Your input in the focus for Dance Flurry organizer discussion?

2021-01-12 Thread Heitzso via Organizers
A UGA business school presentation about a month ago forecast being able to resume full social activities by mid-summer 2021 and a concurrent economic recovery for GA. They predicated a good bit of their forecast on a 1.5T COVID relief bill which didn’t happen. In that same time frame of a few

[Organizers] Re: [External] Your input in the focus for Dance Flurry organizer discussion?

2021-01-12 Thread Greenleaf via Organizers
I agree with Chrissy. The ’what ifs and when’ of resuming dancing are just speculation at this point. If you really want to talk about preparing for re-entry, I encourage you to brainstorm ideas of how all dancers in your community can feel included even if some aren’t ready to come back to

[Organizers] Re: [External] Your input in the focus for Dance Flurry organizer discussion?

2021-01-12 Thread John Sweeney via Organizers
I don't believe that involving health professionals would be constructive at this time. They are unlikely to be able to form a united consensus, or be sure of safety or timescales, at this stage of events. The future is too uncertain. There are new strains appearing; we don't yet know the real

[Organizers] Re: [External] Your input in the focus for Dance Flurry organizer discussion?

2021-01-12 Thread Tepfer, Seth via Organizers
What Chrissy Said! Without trying to open this discussion, I suspect it will still be a long while before we will be dancing in person, so having that discussion is setting up people to think they could be doing it soon. Instead talking about all the different ways we can connect-socials, food

[Organizers] Re: [External] Your input in the focus for Dance Flurry organizer discussion?

2021-01-12 Thread Chrissy Fowler via Organizers
An alternative could be sharing what groups are doing now, or have been doing during this time, to engage and inspire their dancers/musicians/leaders as well as members of your broader community. I’m on a Maine Arts Commission conference today, for arts orgs of all types, and there’s lots

[Organizers] Re: [External] Your input in the focus for Dance Flurry organizer discussion?

2021-01-12 Thread Tepfer, Seth via Organizers
Would it be helpful to have public health professionals on the zoom who could help? Coming up with metrics to define a safe level to reopen could be a discussion point of how. Of course the discussion of vaccinated or not will be heated. Framing that discussion in a way to ensure a positive,

[Organizers] Your input in the focus for Dance Flurry organizer discussion?

2021-01-12 Thread Emily Addison via Organizers
Hi fellow organizers, I hope folks are doing fairly well. These are certainly interesting times. Given that some of you attend the annual organizer discussion at the Dance Flurry, I wanted to check in about the focus of this year's session. I've drafted a description for the session (see