I don't want to steal Will's spotlight, so I'll keep this short, re:
Downtown Amherst Contra Dance:
- we did have people in early 30s, but point still stands; he directly
chose to recruit young organizers
- it's hard to keep college-age organizers more than 2 or 3 years, because
they usually
Marie-Michèle, Hietzo,
Marie-Michèle wrote:
> I haven't yet found a dance with a strong younger core where
male-presenting people almost all dance one role and female-presenting
people almost all dance the other, no matter what role names they use.
Hietzo, do the rural Georgia dances with strong
Is Will Loving in the house? Or anyone from the Amherst, MA, Wednesday
night contra? He was the ONLY person on the board over 30 in the years
after he founded it, and it was largely a college/post-college crowd, the
few times I was privileged to attend. He told me that was his formula.
Maybe he
Thanks Dana, for this reframing of the conversation! Shakes things up a bit in
my mind. Love it.
In Belfast ME, where our demographics have skewed toward a majority of dancers
in teens-early 30s, we recruited board members in that age range because they
already were the majority. (See
I took over as main organiser in Montreal when I was in my late 30s and the
people who decided to join the organizing committee after that were all my
age or younger except one. Gradually after that, our age average became
younger and younger, however part of that is unfortunately because we lost
