Hello everyone,
We've been meeting for the past few years on zoom once a month. Sharing
information, comparing community notes, tossing questions out to other
organizers, etc. Mostly ECD however all organizers of community dances are
welcome.
Darlene
*Next meet-up: January 9th! (TODAY)*
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*Organizers Meet-up*
A space to chat with other organizers about current topics.
Every month 2nd Mondays
1:30pm pacific / 4:30pm eastern
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Darlene Hamilton
*Caller, Dancer, Founder of*
*The Historical Tea & Dance Society*
*Historical Balls, Tea Dances, and Historical Dance classes*
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to**www.historicalteaanddance.org
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We're considering a topic which has been raised to us a few times from
prospective participants. To this date, we have maintained a straight vax +
boost requirement for our series.
I'm interested in examples of group COVID policies providing for
participation of individuals who do not otherwise meet published
vaccination requirements but have acquired potential immunity due to recent
infection. Effectively, having acquired immunity through infection
substituting as a form of vaccination.
In particular: what are the qualifications and/or proof requirements and
the duration of the allowance for vaccination substitution you use, if any?
Substitution for any/all vax requirements or simply as a booster equivalent
in some form?
Thanks in advance for your help and links to any written policies. I'd
greatly prefer if we can keep this thread focused on this particular topic
and appreciate all civility. Should you wish to raise a tangential issue,
please revise the subject line to fork the thread.
For those of you with a COVID policy regarding testing (particularly re:
performers "testing in" to be on stage unmasked) - please consider your
lead time and possibilities for contingency action. We'll be changing the
policy of our dance due to our experience tonight.
Our caller (me!) tested upon arrival at the hall. Entered masked, helped
get set up going and then discovered a positive result. Thirty minutes to
the first dance, folks already en route. Best efforts made, the dance was
able to happen without me but just barely.
We will be requiring this optional testing now to happen within a specified
period which will provide for sufficient time to react appropriately before
the event set up commences.
Hello friends,
On a recent CDSS call, I suggested a webchat or other resource sharing about accepting electronic payments at the door for dances. I think it was Joanna that noted there was a recent e-mail chain on this subject which I missed. Could someone please repost that thread and/or e-mail it to me? Many thanks.
Craig
Craig Meltzner
1916 Diamond Court
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
(707) 544-7036 home
(707) 318-4989 cell
Does anyone have experience contra dancing on a Luxury Vinyl Plank floor?
We’re looking at a hall that would be suitable otherwise. I’ve danced there once (Irish Sets, not contra) and it dances well, better than tile, not quite as good as wood, but I wonder about the floor’s durability standing up to repeated swings in the same contra lines.
Steve Pike
Milwaukee, formerly Madison WI
Does anyone have experience contra dancing on a Luxury Vinyl Plank floor?
We’re looking at a hall that would be suitable otherwise. I’ve danced there once (Irish Sets, not contra) and it dances well, better than tile, not quite as good as wood, but I wonder about the floor’s durability standing up to repeated swings in the same contra lines.
Steve Pike
Milwaukee, formerly Madison WI
Hi all,
We at the Monadnock Folklore Society are figuring out our restart and therefore also our COVID policies.
As research, I made a Google Doc with a bunch of different policies from various groups, that I thought were well-worded at the various different levels of restrictions.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vABialmqd_01rS9LU9FIQRbLcf2qitMQ3oH4oji…
Sharing here in case it helps others.
Once we figure ours out, I’ll add it to the list.
If you think your group has a well-worded COVID policy that provides a different nuance from these others, please send me the info and I’ll add it.
Best,
Lisa
Lisa Sieverts
603-762-0235
lisa(a)lisasieverts.com
Hi Seth and Doug + All :)
Seth and Doug - Thanks so much for sharing some ideas and tips on house
concert organizing! I had to set that project aside for a few weeks but
I've dug into some planning today and your advice and links are really
helpful.
All - I'm wondering about house concerts being an additional way that we
can support dance musicians + bring together our communities during this
time when some people feel able to dance while others can't. For a long
time, our contra community (in Ottawa ON) would book a little tour for
dance musicians, with them playing in Montreal the day after, and sometimes
doing an afternoon workshop. I know lots of dance musicians are ready to
play but there aren't as many dance gigs (at least yet) than before the
pandemic. Having the option of house concerts seems like a really great
option.
Anyway - I don't want to take up too much bandwidth on this list as it's
about dance organizing but Seth and Doug... thank you! I'll follow up as
I'm sorting out details. :)
Hope you're all doing really well. I got in my first in-person dancing
this past weekend since the start of the pandemic. It was the Adirondack
Dance Weekend. What an incredibly well organized event it was... .... so
many lovely details making the whole weekend very magical.
:) Emily
Writing from Ottawa ON
