[Organizers] Re: Attracting young dancers

2023-11-06 Thread Dana Dwinell-Yardley via Organizers
And I forgot to note that my dance is Montpelier, VT! On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 10:56 AM Dana Dwinell-Yardley wrote: > I'm coming in late to this discussion with a thought from the Form the > Ocean dance weekend in 2019. They held a community discussion at that > weekend structured around the idea

[Organizers] Re: Attracting young dancers

2023-11-06 Thread Dana Dwinell-Yardley via Organizers
I'm coming in late to this discussion with a thought from the Form the Ocean dance weekend in 2019. They held a community discussion at that weekend structured around the idea of starting at "Point D." As in, with big conversations in our communities, we so often churn round and round on points A,

[Organizers] Re: Need ideas/feedback about how to get new dancers to return

2023-03-15 Thread Dana Dwinell-Yardley via Organizers
sk, as we want this to be a safe place, even if the archives > are searchable. > > --jh-- > > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 12:23 PM Dana Dwinell-Yardley via Organizers < > organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > >> One more soap bubble for the soap box! >&

[Organizers] Re: Need ideas/feedback about how to get new dancers to return

2023-03-15 Thread Dana Dwinell-Yardley via Organizers
hought to be insane by those who > couldn't hear the music." - Nietzsche > > “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass ... it's about learning > to dance in the rain!” ~ unknown > > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 11:21 AM Dana Dwinell-Yardley via Organizers < > organizer

[Organizers] Re: Need ideas/feedback about how to get new dancers to return

2023-03-15 Thread Dana Dwinell-Yardley via Organizers
Hi all, I'm going to explore this intersection of gender-free role terms + welcoming new dancers + growing community a little bit. [And by "a little bit" I actually mean a "a long soapbox about important stuff," so hang on for the ride.] I'm a genderqueer / gender nonconforming person, and a

[Organizers] Re: Current use of terms

2023-03-10 Thread Dana Dwinell-Yardley via Organizers
Montpelier, VT, uses Larks and Robins. Our website pretty clearly says "gender-free role terms," but I suppose we could be specific about *which* terms we use! Thanks, Dana On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 11:09 AM Jeff Kaufman via Organizers < organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > I've updated

[Organizers] Re: Is it time to end COVID restrictions at most contra dances? HARD DATA

2023-01-10 Thread Dana Dwinell-Yardley via Organizers
And here's a brief synopsis of the data and study Mac referenced, as written by Katelyn Jetelina (author of the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist): --- Mask mandates in schools work What we know: Masks work on an individual level, but the effectiveness of population-level mandates is less

[Organizers] Re: Is it time to end COVID restrictions at most contra dances?

2023-01-05 Thread Dana Dwinell-Yardley via Organizers
Thank you, everyone, for a thoughtful, kind, and nuanced conversation about COVID, which is not a given when you dive into this subject. I really appreciate it. I have a friendly request to make: I'd love for there to be plenty of space for organizers who have not yet shared their thoughts to

[Organizers] Re: Performer "Testing to Unmask" Policy Timing

2022-12-22 Thread Dana Dwinell-Yardley via Organizers
Montpelier is masks required but vax NOT required. We've had no documented spread. (A single case or two after one dance, but no more.) We let callers choose whether or not to be unmasked, and we know some musicians will need to be unmasked (ie wind players). We don't require testing for unmasked

Re: [Organizers] Transition to ungendered dances

2019-08-09 Thread Dana Dwinell-Yardley via Organizers
Hi Stan and other folks, Montpelier, VT, organizer here. We are in the process of transitioning to larks & ravens terms, and we'll be 100% larks & ravens by January 2020. This was a consensus decision made by the organizing committee in alignment with a LOT of feedback from the community. The