Two Dances Going On At Once

[Spitfire]

Went to a dance in Tempe, Az last night. In addition to their regular Friday ballroom dance there was also WCS going on in their practice area. I'm guessing that having two dances going on at the same place at the same time is done in other areas, but it's the first time I've seen it at any of the ballroom venues here or up there. I think this is great if a studio has a practice area of ideal size to do so.

 

[Dancelf]

Back in the day, the Monthly dance at Paulette's featured a westie main room, with one side room for Lindy, and another for wild card - usually salsa or hustle. I think it's pretty reasonable, if you have enough critical mass for multiple rooms and enough sound proofing.

(The wildcard room was usually very thin on dancers; my guess because you couldn't be sure from month to month which dance would be there. Or perhaps it was always an after thought -- we've got an extra studio, and an extra sound system, so why not?)

 

[Spitfire]

Off hand the only other place I know of that has two dances going on at once is the Century Ballroom in Seattle on Tuesdays which has Argentine Tango going in the main ballroom and WCS in their East Hall.

 

[toothlesstiger]

When it was there, the Starlight Ballroom in Silicon Valley would normally have regular ballroom on the main dance floor and Salsa or Hustle in the back room.

 

[Steve Pastor]

I think all of you posters know that having "two dances" going on at the same place at the same time, but on the same floor, is very common where people dance in country western places.

 

[Spitfire]

I think all of you posters know that having "two dances" going on at the same place at the same time, but on the same floor, is very common where people dance in country western places.

Some doing 2 step, others doing swing, others line dancing. Make that Three. :mrgreen:

 

[toothlesstiger]

I should also mention that another studio I go to now periodically has AT practicas in another at the same time as their weekly social dances.

 

[Dancelf]

I think all of you posters know that having "two dances" going on at the same place at the same time

We've all had dances like that.

 

[LindyKeya]

I think it's pretty common. At one point, in Salt Lake, the Murray Arts Center had two or three rooms of different dances going on (ballroom in the large/main ballroom, ECS in the smaller ballroom, and sometimes WCS in the practice room off the main ballroom). (Which space had the most dancers sometimes depended on the music. Band in the main ballroom sucks? Tons of people would head over to other ballroom for swing.)The Tropicana also had two different dances at any given time (before they closed) with Swing(Lindy) in one room, and general Latin/Salsa/whatever in the other.

 

[Terpsichorean Clod]

When it was there, the Starlight Ballroom in Silicon Valley would normally have regular ballroom on the main dance floor and Salsa or Hustle in the back room.

They still do that (though it's called Cheryl Burke Dance now). The ballroom floor is about 4,100 sq. ft. and the "club" floor is about 3,500 sq. ft.

 

[Peaches]

Where I used to dance they would have AT milongas going on in the front studio, and in the back studio (down a short hallway) there was salsa/latin going on.

 

[tsb]

makes sense to me when you've got two dances with very few shared dancers - not smart business to have two simultaneous events that attract the same people from the same geographical area.

 

[toothlesstiger]

Actually, at aforementioned Starlight Ballroom, people would actually switch pretty freely between the two dances in the same location.

 

[tsb]

Actually, at aforementioned Starlight Ballroom, people would actually switch pretty freely between the two dances in the same location.

perhaps this illustrates part of why they're no longer in business - unless you can prove that a significant percentage of people would only show up if *both* dances were held simultaneously - or that exposure to the second dance had a direct correlation to more people taking instruction for the second dance at the studio in question, it's just not the optimal use of space from a revenue standpoint.

 

[toothlesstiger]

As I understand it, they moved because the building owners wanted to convert the property to condoes, and wouldn't renew the lease. They always had both rooms pretty much packed in my memory.