You said that you have "few" young dancers, but you didn't say you have "no"
young dancers. This can be simple as approaching them at the dance and asking
them as a representative of the dance. I am certain they would be happy to tell
you.
You should be pretty much engaging with your new
The other thing I'd like to investigate is the cause for the reduced
attendance of younger dancers. Is it true that requiring masks is reducing the
proportion of younger dancers to the dance?
In my recent experiences of organizing dances for the past decade or so, and
also participating in
If you are wearing a well-fitting N95 mask, it should be providing a good seal
on exhalation and inhalation. That is why masking works to prevent spread and
protect others. And while one-way masking is good protection, science has
shown us that universal masking is even better.
Also, it
I have to question if now, this current moment, is the time to be asking this.
If you look at the current state of covid today, more than half our country has
medium covid community level, which is a level that combines transmission and
hospitalization. That tells me that covid is spreading
I have been using the same criteria as Meg - do they live in the area? Do
they have many mutual friends as me? One challenge is that maybe they tried
the dance for the first time and now want to join the group to get more info -
then they wouldn't have any mutual friends, and I believe
To answer the question about dance timing, we have a weekday dance which used
to be 8 to 11, but since it is a Wednesday dance we noticed that numbers near
the end of the night were getting pretty anemic. Lots of people left at the
break and even more during the course of the 2nd half so that
