07 May

Making the Rounds

Making the rounds on some of the square dance sites…

Square Dancing & Round Dancing – Suite101.com has a couple of new articles and a new poll:

Issues in Square & Round Dancing
What issues do you feel need to be addressed by your club’s/organization’s board?
Too many members are leaving club or activity.
Not enough new members are joining or learning activity.
Dress code needs to be changed.
Need new callers/cuers. Always the same people!
Other. (Add note to discussion group or send e-mail re: issue)

See results of this poll

So far, only 4 voters, though. Also, the responses mix up causes and effects. I think not enough new members are joining the activity because, among other things, the dress code needs to be eliminated.

Terry, the sitemaster, talks about starting a square dance mailing list…why not just refer people who are interested in an email discussion of square dancing over to square-dancing (message body should be: subscribe square-dancing).

Circle Left shows a little activity (there’s one future event listed), although the caller list appears static (and includes some ancient email addresses). I think event and caller listings have been covered better by other sites (notably Vic Ceder’s site…so other square dance sites should provide some other info…Circle Left doesn’t (yet).

SquareDancing.com continues to grow. It has caller listings (not as extensive as Vic’s and much harder to peruse), event listings (ditto), and forums (which have some current discussion of square dance issues).

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