PeterL
24th-January-2003, 11:15 AM
I've had a few discussions recently about different dance venues and competing organisations to ceroc.
I have come across some people with the attitude that Ceroc can be very Big Brother and try to discourage any competition and also come across the attitude of, "now you can ceroc you are ready to " -insert relevant dance here-
Here are my thoughts on the subject.
Ceroc like any business strives to be the best at what it does.
Provide an accessible dance that is open to a large audience.
Other organisation such as swing, Lindy Hop, salsa etc strive to be the best at what they do.
teach a specific dance style.
I believe that ceroc and other organisations are actually complementary.
Ceroc attracts a large number of people to dance and teaches them very well, some of these people, as people do, want to branch out and try other forms of dance. Hence other organisations benefit from Ceroc.
Ceroc on the other hand benefits from other organisations in a slightly different way. A lot of the best dancers have done another style of dance as well and incorporate this into ceroc, these people are the best advertisement for ceroc. You will notice that one of the best ways to get people to try ceroc is to show them (i.e. a Busk) and once you are already going to ceroc these are the poeple that you aspire to dance like, and so you go more often. People do not abandon ceroc for another dance style as ceroc supplys far more people to dance with, but they may go and learn different styles and bring it back into there ceroc (this is a good thing).
I hope that the above made some sort of sense but to round it off I would like to say that as long as all these groups don't compete for dancers (i.e. hold partys in the same area on the same night) not only do they live in harmony but they actually help each others business.
And Frank should be commended for allowing the social events area of this site to advertise competing organisation events.
I personally only ceroc but am pleased that these other organisations supply events to go to, if ceroc is on that is where I go, but when not I can go to a swing party (and ceroc the night away), this just gives me more choice.
I would be pleased to hear anyone elses thoughts on the subject.
I have come across some people with the attitude that Ceroc can be very Big Brother and try to discourage any competition and also come across the attitude of, "now you can ceroc you are ready to " -insert relevant dance here-
Here are my thoughts on the subject.
Ceroc like any business strives to be the best at what it does.
Provide an accessible dance that is open to a large audience.
Other organisation such as swing, Lindy Hop, salsa etc strive to be the best at what they do.
teach a specific dance style.
I believe that ceroc and other organisations are actually complementary.
Ceroc attracts a large number of people to dance and teaches them very well, some of these people, as people do, want to branch out and try other forms of dance. Hence other organisations benefit from Ceroc.
Ceroc on the other hand benefits from other organisations in a slightly different way. A lot of the best dancers have done another style of dance as well and incorporate this into ceroc, these people are the best advertisement for ceroc. You will notice that one of the best ways to get people to try ceroc is to show them (i.e. a Busk) and once you are already going to ceroc these are the poeple that you aspire to dance like, and so you go more often. People do not abandon ceroc for another dance style as ceroc supplys far more people to dance with, but they may go and learn different styles and bring it back into there ceroc (this is a good thing).
I hope that the above made some sort of sense but to round it off I would like to say that as long as all these groups don't compete for dancers (i.e. hold partys in the same area on the same night) not only do they live in harmony but they actually help each others business.
And Frank should be commended for allowing the social events area of this site to advertise competing organisation events.
I personally only ceroc but am pleased that these other organisations supply events to go to, if ceroc is on that is where I go, but when not I can go to a swing party (and ceroc the night away), this just gives me more choice.
I would be pleased to hear anyone elses thoughts on the subject.