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BIDA Signs

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This post is about our first round of signs. Our current signs are here

At the BIDA contra dance we put up colorful signs:

smile!

Reading these signs, you can see what kind of dance community BIDA wants to be:

ask different people to danceask people sitting out to dancedance so that others feel comfortabledance with awareness of those around youconnect with other dancers by starting dance moves on the musical phrasesign welcoming people to bidadance safely and in controlshare your enthusiasm with the performers!connect with other dancers by gently sharing weightsmile!switch partners regularlytake your time finding a partnertalk to others about what makes good dancinguse gestures and body language to help each other—always with a smilewelcome and encourage newer dancers

What signs should we add? What signs should we remove?

(For example, I think we should consider adding "try dancing both roles". I think we should remove "connect with other dancers by starting dance moves on the musical phrase" because the people who understand what the sign means are already doing it and the people who aren't haven't been dancing long enough to hear the phrasing yet.)

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