pennsicdance: Floor

[L.J. Sparvero]

At 08:46 AM 8/19/2003, Philip Edward Lewis wrote:
>Unfortunately he went off, as he thought we (dance
>community) had left entirely, leaving the tarp we left out to dry, and

Ack, that's not good. Would it help to officially have a person as 
"designated Saturday clean up?" That is to say, someone to be the last one 
to turn out the lights on the way out.

>the paint cans (BTW alternate arrangements for storage were
>veto-ed by the folks...so i ended up with them again).

Thanks again for doing this! Might there be anyone in the barony who'd have 
a basement/shed that we could ask to store them?

>He also said that there were "dance flyers strewn everywhere"
>I assured him it was being taken care of, and then did so.

Were these "loose flyers in the tent" or "flyers posted in the barn and 
elsewhere"? I tried to take care of the latter (at least all the ones I put 
up), and I'm guilty of a few of the former (unless someone else made up a 
Bouffons handout...)

Possibly next year I could bring a pouch marked "leave your extra handouts 
here for all to take".

> >- Barn is a noisy zone at all hours, but the tent has a noise cutoff. This
> >means that if the dancers want to do after hours dance, that they have to
>BTW... unless the dance tent is a quiet zone, we were shutting up an
>hour early.  Quite hours in quiet zone start at 10pm, rest of
>campground, at 1am.

I think there was some ambiguity on this. If we really could go until 1am, 
that would be fantastic (see previous post). Of course, if the dance tent 
was actually considered "quiet camping zone" then that would put a dampener 
on things. Heck, Wolgemut didn't *start* their concert in the adjacent tent 
until 10pm...

> >- Not as many seats / places for stuff as the barn has. This year we had 50
>I would suggest we ask for 100 next year, and at least on more table.

That sounds great.

>Space in the trailer is starting to get tight... (although we were
>able to store some stuff for heralds point) so anything we build would
>have to be break downable.  I'm thinking several sheets of plywood
>which have fold down shelves on hinges. (unless we can make a
>collapsible cubby hold system.) Other ideas?

Would the bandshell be something like that -- sheets on hinges that 
accordian out to form a shell?

>energy to put it up (i have to apologize, i was really mentally
>whooped this year and took it easier than i felt i should have).

Please, as I said before, you've done fantastic service to the dancers for 
many, many years! I hardly consider how much you did this year as "taking 
it easy"! Our knees and feet appreciate you!

>What we need is a set of wooden steps for people to hang out and block
>access to the musicians area... ;)

Along the lines of setting up a "Baroness's bedchambers" for a dance event. 
Recall that the Italian sources describe period post-revels as taking place 
in the nobilities bedchambers, with maybe 20 people at a time dancing. So 
what we really need is to make a mock-up bedchamber for the host of the 
revel, with several of her attendants/dressers ;-)

No, this wasn't inspired by you finding a bed in the dance tent....

>BTW, we have our first event request:
>the Blue Feathers want to host their (open) ball in the tent on
>the last Thursday. They keep getting shunted to a place where they
>can't dance... and I wanted to make sure we know about it early so
>that doesn't happen ever again. (When i started... the BFB was a great
>night held thursday in the barn... then courts started taking forever
>and they got shuffled off to nasty small tents with poles and uneven
>ground, making dancing next to impossible.)

There are two good options -- if they're willing to change the date of 
their party, then there's no reason they can't have the dance tent on a 
night that open dance is in the barn. Or even have the barn and have open 
dancing in the tent. Thursday is likely to be another long court night, and 
whatever open dancing will depend on if the Pennsic ball is on Friday or 
Tuesday next year. Of course, if the focus of the ball will be dancing, 
then there's no reason it can't be scheduled for a night in the tent just 
like the other dance parties. Thoughts anyone?

-Lyev