18 Oct
2017
18 Oct
'17
10:38 p.m.
Like Don Quixote, I will continue to remind folks that community dancing is a GREAT dance
for people of ALL ages.
Not everyone likes to contra dance. Let children enjoy the dances they love, and let them
decide whether contra or community dancing is their next dance experience, if they stay
with dancing at all.
Paul Rosenberg
Albany, NY
www.homespun.biz
On Oct 18, 2017, at 10:04 PM, Jeff Raymond
<jeffraym(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Howdy folks,
The age the of family dance attendees may depend more on how you manage promotion, the
age of the Contradancers starting families or the promoter and callers style.
As for kids at Topsham I'd say 7-12, because my daughter is ten and I try to rope in
as many of her friends as possible but even when none come with us there's a few close
to her age, but they'd be the oldest and are all ready to dance the adult dance,
depending the contra callers chops.
There are a few younger, none older.
In Maine we are so blessed with Waldorf School families and home schoolers. I'm going
to say that Topsham and Belfast are in two of the more intellectually umm... stimulated,
(in so far as the arts are concerned) areas of Maine.
Chrissy may of speak for her own dance of course but Belfast area is way WAY cooler then
Brunswick Topsham area with way more back to the earth energy (our "hippie"
crowd may be aging out) and folks in that life do love a contra.
Point: Reach out to farmers. When I was in charge I often let farm Apprentices and
interns in for cheap.
Be well, Jeff