pennsicdance: Tent and barn (was Re: Floor)

[L.J. Sparvero]

At 10:51 PM 8/19/2003, you wrote:
>So if nightly dancing is going to be moved to the barn, there better be
>some sort of other dance activity in the tent....
>Lowrie.

In an ideal world that would be great, but we just don't have the manpower 
to run dance in two locations at the same time (as this year showed quite 
nociticably). I'd really enjoy having, say a night of open dancing in the 
barn while a more focused party is going on in the tent. But we were very 
hard pressed to have people coordinate evening dancing (thanks again for 
volunteering!), having dance in two locations at once would mean twice as 
many coordinators. Although we have a truly awesome collection of musicians 
and music coordinators, I'm not sure if there are enough for two 
simultaneous bands on the same night.

But to answer your question, certainly having dance of some sort going on 
each evening is a bare minimum. One thing that seemed to work was having an 
early short ball (1.5 hours or so, 6:30-8:00pm or so) in the tent, and then 
normal evening dance at 9pm (in either tent or barn). People then had the 
option of doing both on the same night.

What did people think of that arrangement?

-Lyev