The dance last night (June 7, 2008) was a wonderful success. For a first dance of its kind, mixing (quel horreurs!) contra and English, with limited advance warning that it was even happening, an attendance of 33 people was Great News.
I watched the floor particularly during the English dances we did, to see how many dancers could comfortably fit on the Monday Club floor. It looked to me as if about 5 sets of four were just about right, and that 6 was still okay, but a tad crowded. We know that we could not fit 3 lines and still do the sweeping moves of English, so that means that the maximum number of people who could comfortably dance English there at one time is 48.
As it happens, the number of people needed to break even financially is 47.
And so the dilemma: fewer people, and the business plan doesn't work. More people, and the dance gets crowded.
We could do mostly contras, which pack together more comfortably, and suggest that each person sit out just one of the English dances. If there were 64 people, and four English dances, that would mean that, on average, 16 people would be sitting out each English dance, leaving just 48 to dance.
Well, let's just hope we can have this problem one day...
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