On 4/11/2017 11:56 AM, 'Tepfer, Seth' labst@emory.edu
[trad-dance-callers] wrote:
>
>
> I'm working on a blurb to convince administrators at a local college
> to include barn dancing/community dancing as part of their
> orientation program.
>
> I'm trying to come up with the best name for it.
>
> "Community Dance" doesn't feel like a good fit, it is not open to
> the community, it is for the incoming Freshman and/or their student
> leaders.
>
> "Barn Dance" has me worried about hokey/uncool - setting up students
> to be opposed to it from the beginning.
>
> "Ceilidh," although hard to spell, does have cool Irish panache
> about it. Perhaps "American Ceilidh"?
>
>
> I don't want to use 'Contra dance' because that is simply confusing
> - and it won't be contra.
>
> I don't want to just say "Dance" because then people will think like
> their HS prom.

"Shindig" might work.  It doesn't have the same (and I say this with
great affection) nerdly connotations as "folk dance," but implies a
rowdy good time with some kind of dancing that probably doesn't involve
a DJ.

Kalia


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