How to get dancers of other styles into contra?
- Half night one
sort of dance, half night contra
- Tell them you’ll
go to their dance if they come to yours (trade)
- someone else underlined “to
yours” and wrote “loaded!”
- Demos at breaks
- Advertise
(mutual)
- It’s helpful
when callers can mix in a square or English dance
- Hartford
Community Dance has one night a year (I think) where they have
contra, swing, Cajun/zydeco, other dances the same night
- Maybe describe
contra in terms of other dances? — it’s a little like swing
- OR JUST BRING
THEM!
- Lots of contra
bands have distinct styles. So invite a dancer who has not gone to a
contra to a dance that has a style that they would like. For
instance take a swing dancer to a “swingy” contra
- Play some contra
music at the end of the dance. (get them excited about music first –
most of the time, it’s music that makes you want to dance!)