15 Mar
2023
15 Mar
'23
7:49 a.m.
Lots of good suggestions from a lot of people.
I think I can boil down success keeping new dancers to:
1. Listen to youth, put then on your committee, and implement their
suggestions.
2. Have a written values statement, which all of your other policies follow.
3. Make it clear you want to hear from dancers with compliments or
complaints. And actually deal with complaints. Over and over, the biggest
reason I hear people not returning (other than just not liking the dance
form) is unhandled and ignored complaints.
In dance,
Julian Blechner
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 8:10 AM Chrissy Fowler via Organizers <
organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
*“Getting back to the subject of repeat visitors,
perhaps the biggest
difference of all is a caller who brings the fun and the inclusiveness, the
type who can laugh with you when something goes goofy. (… . ) I'm
tremendously grateful to everyone organizing contra dances, and to all the
people trying to make their dance a little bit better each week.*
*Lex Spoon”*
Hear, hear!
(And I think it’s also the organizers who can bring that fun and
inclusiveness and set the tone for embracing the goofiness.) Let’s face it,
even though some folks forget and take it all a bit too seriously, these
dances we love are *incredibly* weird. Beautifully so, but definitely on
the silly side of joy.
I’m also grateful for all you folks sharing ideas and experiences openly
and nonjudgmentally. What a gift!
Chrissy Fowler
Belfast Maine
*Where we are digging out from the latest nor’easter (ah the joys of
finally getting winter weather in March)*
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