I do know one instance of the rotten US economy making it impossible for a good dancer to replace his ancient broken down truck, hence he is not attending any dances at all.. Very sad... -Elizabeth Szekeres Toronto Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 6, 2016, at 10:53 AM, via Organizers <organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > > Send Organizers mailing list submissions to > organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/organizers-sharedweight.net > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > organizers-request(a)lists.sharedweight.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > organizers-owner(a)lists.sharedweight.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Organizers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Lower attendance at dances (Allison Bell via Organizers) > 2. Re: Lower attendance this year? (Chrissy Fowler via Organizers) > 3. Re: Lower attendance this year? (Chris Page via Organizers) > 4. Re: Organizers Digest, Vol 26, Issue 4 > (Emily Addison via Organizers) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 15:35:08 +0000 > From: Allison Bell via Organizers <organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> > To: "organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net" > <organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> > Subject: [Organizers] Lower attendance at dances > Message-ID: > <DM5PR13MB14841609F89FA34C28FE966FB8820(a)DM5PR13MB1484.namprd13.prod.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > My observations in Greenfield are much of what's been said. We also have many new dancers, with the old group either aging out, finding other hobbies, nursing injuries, etc. > > One question: how politicized have dances becomes around issues like what a move is called, what a position is called? On the floor, there is a steady hum of resentment amongst long time dancers about these matters and some of this is also appearing to sour people on wanting to attend. > > Allison > > Sent from my iPhone > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 15:46:55 +0000 > From: Chrissy Fowler via Organizers > <organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> > To: organizers shared weight <organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> > Subject: Re: [Organizers] Lower attendance this year? > Message-ID: > <BN6PR02MB2324AE14BF3257F166AFB6198D820(a)BN6PR02MB2324.namprd02.prod.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Interesting data so far! Are there dances out there that have seen an INCREASE in average attendance in the last year? > > Besides asking for help from the "converted", perhaps we need to increase our reach to the non-dancer community to boost the pool of potential attendees for a given dance. (Meaning, somehow become more visible to the majority of people in our geographic area - the non-dancers - so that we get our message out to those non-dancers who would want to come to our dance if they only knew about it.) > > In Belfast, we've got a major component for outreach to youth (schools, youth programming) but we could do more to raise the visibility of both our series and our organization. > > Any brainstorms for potential efforts to support sustainability? > > Cheers, > Chrissy Fowler > Belfast, ME > > >