[Squaredancing] Discussion on the National in Charlotte

[Cynde Sadler]

Nice to hear about it for those of us who didn't attend. I toy with the idea 
sometimes...maybe someday. For now I get my jollies from going to Germany to 
dance. There is a the 8th iPAC Convention coming up in Barmstedt...

Cynde
Finland


> Ken et al,
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> thank you for your report about the 56th Nationals.
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> My report:
>
> When I arrived at the airport it was nice to find a table who offered
> transportation information to the 56th.
> Also a good thing was that the airport bus to Uptown was
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> Again the required dress code led to problems and closed a lot of
> dancers out. They required "proper" square dance attire, but forced
> dancers to wear "Traditional" attire or leave.
>
> They should accept the definitions for the three attire styles Callerlab
> have recommended. Better they should use some more liberal like e.g.
> they do recommend dance attire for the dances in the evenings... (and
> nor require neither Proper nor Traditional all day).
>
> The International hospitality room was on ground floor, easy to find
> from the International attendees like me. And it was the only place I
> found where was a water dispenser with purified water. (Almost all water
> dispensers in the halls only contain water from the tap whic doesn't
> taste well).
>
> Vendors area was smaller than ever.
> Dance halls:
> Plus with rounds was attended real well.
> Plus was attendes well, too.
> Mainstream with the live band was overcrowded in the evenings and the
> sound was to noisy for my poor ears.
> There was a small hall for Line dancing, one for clogging
>  and one for Contra.
>
> Mainstream with rounds were pretty well attended.
> A1 was in a smaller room with often 4-6 squares
> A2 was in a larger room for up to 30 squares. A2 room was the 2nd best
> attended hall at the Nationals (except the live band).
> C1-2-3 was in one small room, usually had up to 4 squares.
>
> Round dance halls were most time full of dancers.
>
> Mainstream with live band was too loud.
>
> Seminars an panels were interesting. Sadly the foldable wall which
> separated room -A from room -B doesn't insolate that much from sound
> from the room beside.
>
> Heinz
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