dance event

[cellio]

I met jarethsgirl tonight. She's in her first year in the SCA and is interested in running a dance event, so I agreed to be her mentor. (New autocrats require a mentor here

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[dmnsqrl]

(New autocrats require a mentor here.)

Very. Wise. Idea. :)

[cellio]

I agree. There's a lot of accumulated wisdom about running events, and new people should get a guide (and not just a manual, not that we have a manual either).

We ran into a corner case some years back: a newcomer to the barony who said he had autocratted events elsewhere. Some of us suggested that he should have a mentor anyway because each group does things differently; the then-seneschal poo-pooed the idea as insulting to this obviously-experienced person. Guess what? The event had major problems. (A more-perceptive outsider would have asked for a mentor anyway. I know the idea was made known to him. Oh well.)

[lyev]

So the venue is going to be something like Dancer's Revolt? I wish both of you the best. Yay dancing! :-)

[jarethsgirl]

actually, Lyev, I was going to ask if you may be interested in assisting with the dance instruction ^_^...

[lyev]

Sure thing! Just I've got annual commitments with Terpsichore (April 8), but otherwise I'd be honored to help you.

[jarethsgirl]

great! We'll discuss on Thursday at dance practice then :)

btw I added you as well :)

[chite]

Harvest Festival was my very first event, and it basically got me into the SCA. Awesome.

[cellio]

Cool! I didn't know that.

I wish that KofC hall was still available. It was fun to watch figure dances from the balcony that went all the way around.

[indigodove]

That was really a lovely hall. It had a nice "pretend-period" feel to it.

[indigodove]

I would probably come to that...provided I can /find/ my old garb :-)

If I boned up (and this actually fits my schedule), I could offer my famous "if you can walk, you can dance" tutorial for absolute dance newcomers :-)

[cellio]

I'm sure we could find something for you to wear. :-)

[jarethsgirl]

I know Arabella is "passing on" the Gold Key to *someone* (no one's stepped up yet, to my knowledge), and I helped inventory that stuff...I'm sure there's *something* you can borrow, hmm? ^_^

[jducoeur]

This is a very reasonable event for a new autocrat to do; in fact, my first event as autocrat was Harvest Festival.

Heh. This seems a universally good way to start. One of my friends is autocratting her first event in December -- which is *also* an all-dance event along very similar lines.

(Personally, I didn't actually autocrat one of these until relatively late. But the second event that I kitchened was one, and I half-autocratted that...)