Hi fellow organizes,
I have a question for you about developing a multi-generational dance
series. I book for a series that the late Marianne Taylor ran for 22 years.
It is not a predominately 'hot-shot' dance or a regional dance gypsy magnet,
but we would like to attract more young dancers (read 12 - 42). I am
proposing that we run a techno-dance for one of our monthly dances. I need
to describe it to our current dancers and convince them to give it a try if
it is going to be a success, although I have yet to attend one myself. Many
organizers have the hope of building a multi-generational dance community
and we have that same hope at the dance I am describing, but I wonder if
that is reasonable. If organizing events that will appeal to younger dancers
is going to drive away older dancers we will not be creating a tolerant,
multi-generational, community.
Your thoughts on describing techno to dancers who have never seen it (in a
way that might intrigue them) and on the problem of developing a
multi-generational dance community.
Thanks,
Rickey Holt,
Fremont, NH