People book ahead at our local dance. I despise the practice, but I understand where it comes from, and have been prone to it myself (can I have a witness?). It is a problem that is rife at our dance weekends and our local dance. I do not want to get into a religious discussion about whether booking ahead is good or bad. Save that discussion for another time. I would like to hear creative ideas for avoiding/sideswiping/eliminating the booking ahead issue. Here's what is in my [mostly ineffective] toybox: * after a circle mixer (square, etc), have people take that last partner (corner in square, last neighbor, etc) to be their partner for the next contra * ask that everyone dancing ask someone who was sitting out last time to dance * do a scatter mixer * model good behavior [especially after Lisa called me out at SnowBall, 2004!] * wear my 'I don't book ahead" button What other creative ideas are there out in the dance ethos? Thanks seth PS I really really really want to cross-post this to the trad-callers listserv, because I know they'd have ideas there too. But I'm trying to be good and not cross-post. Okay, climbing off martyr soapbox now. :-) ========================================================================= Seth Tepfer: Director of Administrative Computing & Innovative Technology Oxford College of Emory University - 770-784-8487 - labst(a)emory.edu For fast and easy computer help, try... <http://help.emory.edu>http://help.emory.edu Jex Raven Eidson Tepfer - Born 6/5/05 00:52! Say hi at: http://www.jexRaven.com/ ========================================================================= "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought." -Dorothy L. Sayers