Always nice when things go right

[jducoeur]

The call for "Everyone Come To Dance Practice Night" went quite nicely -- I'd guess that we got about 30 people there over the course of the evening. That was actually a bit crowded (the room only has space for about 24 dancing at a time), but such problems we should have. It's unlikely to remain that crowded, but I hope folks had fun and continue to come back -- I thought it was a real blast...

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[jducoeur]

Actually, it drew a surprising number of new people (demonstrating that the broadcast approach does have its own strengths), as well as large numbers who haven't made it to dance practice in an age. On the new front, we got a small contingent from Southbanke (yay!), as well as at least one lady who had encountered the SCA at my Worldcon dance demo the other year and had been meaning to check it out. On the old friends one, we got folks from Jasmina (who hasn't been there in a fair while) to Larissa (who hasn't been there in a couple of decades). And we also got some folks who have been in the SCA for a while but never tried dance practice, like a small group from Lochleven.

Overall, quite a bit of fun. The interesting question is how many of those folks become regulars or semi-regulars. The underlying objective here is to get the regular weekly dance practice back up to what I think of as "full strength" (20 or so). But it was successful enough that I'll clearly need to do it from time to time just for its own sake. (Preferably with a slightly bigger room...)

[calygrey.livejournal.com]

We were freed from Goddesses a little early so I came. I hadn't been for a decade and a half anyway. You are a wonderful teacher and I enjoyed myself greatly for the three dances I'd arrived in time to do! I'll certainly come when Goddesses is over -or if we are released early again!!