23 Jun
2011
23 Jun
'11
8:48 a.m.
Jeff Kaufman wrote:
So lots of people come for a while, then stop. Some of the people
who stay around are just people who really like dancing. Many
others, though, are ones who have broadened into other community
roles: calling, playing, organizing, running sound.
Maybe some musicians lose interest in dancing, like other people who
lose interest in dancing, but instead of disappearing they remain
somewhat connected, playing for dances?
I decided to make a graph of this for me:
http://sccs.swarthmore.edu/~cbr/files/2006_2011.png
It's not perfect [1], but it does show that I've been performing more
and dancing less over time. It also doesn't include organizing, which
is harder for me to measure, but has gone up a lot.
Jeff
[1] Performing means calling, playing, or sitting in. From
2008-06-03 to 2008-09-09 I was working at pinewoods, where I did
a lot of dancing and not very much performing, but I wasn't
recording activities. I hurt my knee in march 2011, and while it
is mostly better I've been dancing less. During the school years
2006-2007 and 2007-2008 I was going to swarthmore folkdance class
regularly, so it's not on the schedule. I played for one class a
week and danced for one class a week (at which I usually called
one dance). Those months could be bumped up by 3 in each (on
average). Data is from my past [2]. I started keeping that log
about three months after getting into dancing, winter break
2005-2006, though I had danced occasionally earlier.
[2] http://sccs.swarthmore.edu/~cbr/past.html
