If I'm reading this correctly, I'd like to note that "zesty" versus
"community" is not determined by geography, i.e. rural versus urban, but
rather one of the culture that's been
available/created/nourished/stumbled-upon.
In my region you have Harvest Moon that runs both the River Falls dance
Glad Heitzo reintroduced this thread, as I'd dropped the ball on responding to
Alex. Responses below.
And about that focus group, it was lovely. We ended up with fewer respondents
than we anticipated, but what got shared was quite juicy, and it spawned a
project to further document our
This is an old thread, but recently had
interest from an active retirement community to teach contra,
which we started last week.
The active retirement community is a gated community with lots of
resources, e.g. indoor and outdoor pools, ballroom, maybe a
h programs for
>> 2018, all incorporating young people to some degree. The one I'm most
>> excited about is a panel discussion, which we'll record for posterity, of
>> young people in their teens and 20s explaining more about why they choose to
>> make contra dancing par
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> *From:* Mary Collins <native...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 19, 2017 4:48 PM
> *To:* Chrissy Fowler
> *Subject:* Re: [Organizers] Lower attendance this year?
>
> Chrissy,
>
> How exactly are you reaching those young peopl
!
Cheers,
Chrissy
From: Mary Collins <native...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 4:48 PM
To: Chrissy Fowler
Subject: Re: [Organizers] Lower attendance this year?
Chrissy,
How exactly are you reaching those young people?
Mary -Buffalo NY
On Dec 6
A year later, after an unusually low-turnout dance, I updated the
graph I made before and BIDA is also seeing a decrease recently:
https://www.jefftk.com/bida-attendance-2017-12-2x.png
It wasn't clear to me at the time, but it looks like it goes back to early 2016.
Jeff
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at
