28 Oct
2011
28 Oct
'11
10:56 a.m.
It has also occurred to me, that in trying to grow a dance group in the
direction of younger dancers, the people you might want to engage to dance
with you are faculty members at your local colleges and universities. They
can be the ones who last longer than two or three years, the ones who can
suggest dancing to freshmen, the ones who can organize a campus dance, the
ones who can teach a class for credit which involves social dancing.
Furthermore, IMHO, the only way you get younger people to dance a lot is to
have younger people in charge. And if you're talking about college kids,
befriending a teacher who is good at encouraging his or her students to get
involved might be a good way to ensure continuity.
And I hope you all do this, and then I hope all of the young dancers you
train move to my town!
M
E
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:51 AM, JD Erskine <sailargh(a)victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
On 26/Oct/11 19:10, David Millstone wrote:
--
As you set out for Ithaka, pray that your journey be long, full of
adventure, full of discovery...
May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, with what joy,
you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time.
~Constantine Cavafy, "Ithaka" 1911
Dear Mary,
I'll just add that I don't think the poster is what will bring students
to an unfamiliar activity off campus. Ultimately, it's people who bring
other people to a dance, friends bringing friends.
When some dance organizers have surveyed newcomers to find out what
brought them to the dance, the overwhelming reason was, "A friend
brought me."
One of the points made somewhere-- sorry, can't find the source-- is
that when trying to attract young people in particular, you do best to
think in terms of groups rather than individuals. Broad generalization:
they'll go if others are going. So, the effort needs to be to get a group.
snip
David Millstone
Lebanon, NH
Likely in the excellent essay, Dancing on College Campuses
by Jenny Beer and Joanna Reiner. Good folks. Available here:
http://www.cdss.org/tl_files/**cdss/newsletter_archives/news/**campus.pdf&l…
and here:
http://**germantowncountrydancers.org/**campus.html<http://germantowncountrydancers.org/campus.html>
A number of poster ideas at the foot of:
http://www.cdss.org/publicity-**on-campus.html<http://www.cdss.org/publi…
Cheers, JD
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