16 Dec
2024
16 Dec
'24
9:11 a.m.
Love this topic!
Put a few photos of hall decor that I've collected over the years. :)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aBClWJFkjR7tOUTVn2_fuB6SYt_V2Pd-?us…
Full transparency - I've downloaded many of these from FB.
Emily
On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 1:42 AM Robert Matson via Organizers <
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Hi Alex, All,
For our situation, a stark space the size of a basketball court, we too
have been happy with the results from using fairy lights/Christmas tree
lights. They've met our requirements: make a stark space look fun and
cozy; inexpensive; low labor requirements: an unskilled, one-person task
that’s easy to delegate*; fast set-up, take down and tidy storage*.
*My key discovery, which enabled this to work, was to use a cord storage
reel: to reel up the light strings at evening’s end without damaging the
wires, to neatly store, and to neatly reel out the light strings the next
time. With the reels, it became a fast 100-second job to lay down each
100’ string of lights and takes only about double that to reel them back up.
https://www.amazon.com/Bayco-KW-110-100-Capacity-Reel/dp/B07CQQX1T2
The same reels dramatically shorten the time needed to lay down/pick up
XLR audio cables and extension cords without damaging the wires. They’d
also be useful for storing and reeling out those nice white gossamer fabric
bands posted earlier in this thread.
Our decorative scheme is to lay them along the four edges of the room, in
the crease where the wall meets the floor (in the CDNY case I imagine this
as being behind the feet of the folding chairs along the edges). We’re
partial to multi-colored and non-blinking fairy lights. Coats, water
bottles, bags, etc. tucked under the chairs may block some of the lights
but the overall effect remains in tact, in my opinion. We dim the ceiling
lights in the hall.
I hope this helps you.
Rob Matson
Organizer, Musician, minor caller
Conway, AR
On Sat, Dec 14, 2024, 10:02 PM Alexandra Deis-Lauby via Organizers <
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Thanks all!
We do not own the hall and any decorations we put up we’d need to take
down that evening. We dance in it every week, (not just for special
events) and we’d like to do this for our regular dances.
Does any dance have something like that chiffon material that they have
rigged a system to hang up and take down every dance?
I remember the Portland Maine dance used to hang tapestries every time.
Alexandra Deis-lauby
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On Dec 14, 2024, at 7:55 PM, Kimbi Hagen <kimbi.hagen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Our dance has been talking about purchasing white chiffon material to
hang in pleated swags across the gym, to do double duty as a sound baffle
and mute the standard surface-of-the-sun gym lighting. We also want to
thread light weight fairy lights in and amongst the chiffon. Because
pretty.
We got the idea from our reframed Trolley Barn dance venue, who found
them left up one time after the Trolley Barn was used for a wedding.
Like this picture from the internet.
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Sent from my "Smart" Phone
(so please excuse bizarre and nonsensical Auto-corrects). Also, English
is my first language. So all spelling and grammar mistakes were made with
the ability to not do that.
On Dec 14, 2024, at 7:07 PM, Don Peabody via Organizers <
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Alex—
Yes.
I don’t remember her name, but—good grief! thirty years ago?—one of our
Otter Creek Contra Dance committee members proposed decorating the
exceedingly drab and dreary Middlebury Municipal Gymnasium with quilts.
A committee member designed dis-assemblable display frames, and quilts by
dancers and other local artisans were displayed. They were transformative
of that space, filling it with beauty to complement the music and dance
movements.
I know photos were taken because we sponsored a visit by George Marshall
and Wild Asparagus (Becky Tracy's family home was just up the road, in
Bristol) and the second U.S. dance appearance by the Brunet Brothers (the
first of which we ran in Bristol with Pete Sutherland doing a rare calling
gig.) But where would they be now, over a quarter of a century later?
Love to you all—
Don
On Dec 14, 2024, at 3:39 AM, Alexandra Deis-Lauby via Organizers <
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Hi all!
Has anyone had success making an unattractive hall pretty?
We’d love to hear ideas from your dance, or if you just like
brainstorming, here are photos of our hall at CDNY (NYC).
Thanks!
Alex
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