Re: [Tower Ravens] EGM Agenda - publicity

I'm afraid I have other plans for Monday night now, but I've put my answers below. Could someone bring my petticoat to the crawl on Thursday? On 21 March 2014 22:44, Rachel Sheridan <rachel.sheridan(a)cantab.net> wrote: Team did well, but what was sacrificed was the inclusion of people who weren't on the team on Monday evenings. I personally have felt excluded and frustrated at the fact I did not have a single practise session with the DERT set as number 1. The fact that very few non-team members attended for the month leading up to DERT despite (I presume) being charged for practise suggests they may have felt that there was little for them to contribute. It was agreed that there would be only 5 people dancing at DERT, but I feel that it turned into only 5 people dancing for the entire month leading up to DERT with the others just left practising/teaching on their own, and often sitting not dancing at all. Needs to be kept as a dance we can wheel out for a crawl, whilst we learn a new one. If we try altering it bit by bit, we wind up excluding people who haven't been able to make every practise and get up to speed with the current changes. Now we have a large side - that will take up more and more time. I think it's best to draw a line under this dance, give it a proper name, and learn a new one alongside it. We need a new dance. We've tweaked one dance for the last 2 years and have only danced that one dance - apart from our single attempt at Tenterden last year. I feel like we really should try and have 2 stock dances. We need to invest time in this now, before everyone goes away over the summer like last year. If we do - we need to think about how learning two different sets of stylings will affect the standard of dancing as a whole. I think that learning another non-traditional dance - where the current stylings across both dances can be uniform - would be better. Given a choice of where to put effort - I feel we should learn a new dance - but we do need two people to learn number one who can be tumbled on, as at present we have none. Focus on day/weekend ones for this year, as we don't have the variety of dances for a longer festival at present. Getting the right range of numbers to a week-long one who can dance two dances might be a little ambitious. We have pretty much exhausted the possibilities in the Bank area, a change of hall would mean a change in location. I have had no luck finding more netting. I have one still-not-made petticoat. We have an imbalance of numbers in the side. Despite having a large number of members - we're still struggling to get a set together for this week's crawl for example. This is particularly apparent at number 1. A re-distribution of resources is required - or you wind up with some weeks that there are so many of a certain number that they just don't get a chance to dance, but you have nobody at a different number. Both situations are pretty miserable for the people involved. _______________________________________________ Tower Raven's mailing list team(a)towerravens.org.uk