Hi, folks,
I'd like to hear about different people's approaches to booking bands and
callers for a dance series. For example:
* Do you ask a bunch of bands and callers at once for their availability dates
and then try to fill in the schedule based on the combined responses, or do you
contact
On Aug 9, 2019, at 9:56 AM, Heitzso via Organizers
wrote:
> I know that this evening, in Atlanta, Seth Tepfer will intentionally call
> role-less dances (no reference to gents/ladies/larks/whatever).
I'd be interested in learning more details about what Seth does and about how
it works in
Mary,
To get more input for reference in case a similar situation comes up in the
future, you might try asking your question on the
list.
--Jim
(Santa Clara, CA)
> On Oct 10, 2023, at 5:49 PM, Mary Collins via Organizers
> wrote:
>
> Thank you for all your input. It seems that it is a
Thanks for all the informative responses so far.
In my query at the top of this thread, I wrote:
> (For example, if a dance series [starts] having a very high percentage of
> dancers paying electronically, then paying performers in cash at the end of
> the evening may become problematic.)
Folks,
This may be like trying to order the tide not to come in, but I'd appreciate it
if those wishing to continue discussion of
(1) Requiring annual memberships for dance attendance
or
(2) Viability of using a dance weekend to subsidize a regular series
would please start threads under new
As local dances begin starting up again in the "post-pandemic" (?) era--or at
least in an era when vaccines, tests, and good masks are readily available--a
topic has come up that had already been mentioned occasionally in the late
2010s but that my local dance organization (BACDS, but I'm not
Rob Matson mentioned marley floor coverings. I don't know about whatever
different versions of marley may exist, but the one instance that I've ever
encountered of something described as a "marley" floor overing seemed, in my
opinion, to give far too much horizontal friction for contra dancing.
