[Squaredancing] Re: [sd-callers] National Convention trip report

[Loren Castro]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again:  Square dance leaders need 
to decide soon whether they want costumes or dancers.

lfc
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Anniebplus at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 6/28/2005 10:22:31 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, 
> cmbaker at tiac.net writes:
>
>     I did encounter one person who is better known than I who
>     was told that she couldn't dance squares dressed as she was (not in
>     square dance clothes), but dressed up (she had been working a vendor
>     booth).  
>
> This was one of the things the Tony Oxendine brought up at a recent 
> seminar.  He feels that we are chasing away new dancers by requiring 
> them to look a certain way.  We have lost 80% of dancers in the past 
> 20 years.  We have to do anything and everything we can to attract new 
> dancers and closing the door in their face because they aren't dressed 
> properly is not the way to do it.
>  
>
> Anne Barker
> Phoenix, AZ
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