[Organizers] Lower attendance this year?

[Jeff Kaufman via Organizers]

I just looked over the attendance records for our dance (BIDA, in Cambridge MA):

http://www.jefftk.com/bida-attendance-2016-12-4x.png

While last winter we had extremely high attendance that has since
backed off some, our general trend seems to be pretty positive.

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Marie-Michèle Fournier via Organizers
<organizers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> That is incredibly interesting to me. I know I go less to the Québécois folk
> dance because their price has increased again (from 17$ to 18$ !) and I'd
> been wondering if a sliding scale would help convince dancers with smaller
> budgets to come contra dancing.
> Side note: that Québécois folk dance scene also seems to have lower
> attendance this year, although I've been there only once this fall so it's
> hard to tell for sure.
>
> Any one frequents other types of dances (blues, swing, salsa, tango, etc)
> and can tell us if they have lower attendance too?
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Donald Perley <donperley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Market flexibility is a factor here. When we went from $8 to sliding
>> scale (pay what you can, 5 to 10), our average per dancer went down,
>> but enough more attendance that the total gate went up and we were
>> able to raise the minimum for our bands.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Perry Shafran via Organizers
>> <organizers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Affordability of dances is another reason (as rents and costs of talent
>> > has
>> > gone up), and perhaps saturation of dances in any one region.
>> >
>> > Perry
>> >
>> >
>> > ________________________________
>> > From: Marie-Michèle Fournier via Organizers
>> > <organizers at lists.sharedweight.net>
>> > To: Shared Weight Organizers <Organizers at sharedweight.net>
>> > Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 8:17 AM
>> > Subject: [Organizers] Lower attendance this year?
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >     Both Montreal and Ottawa have seen lower attendance this fall and we
>> > got
>> > word that it's similar in Brooklyn. Are any other local dances seeing
>> > this
>> > too? Any idea what might be causing this? Since it happens to both
>> > Canadian
>> > and American cities I doubt it's the political climate.
>> > Thanks,
>> > Marie
>> > ContraMontreal
>> >
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