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    Re: How important is a venue's 'layout'?

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidY View Post
    Then you nonchalantly walk past the person who's just evaded you, and take a sip of the drink you were heading for all the time.
    I can't believe you said that, cos that's exactly what I did when I went last time but I forgot this time!
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    Re: How important is a venue's 'layout'?

    Which part of the Forum is used for Jive? Curious (having gone there last Friday - i'm thinking it'll have been a different crowd!) - the upstairs bar and linked 2nd room seemed ok - and the main ground floor section seemed a decent 1-2,000 capacity for large events too (no doubting a monthly could fill it!).

    Seating round edge - circular floor presumably has higher floor:seating ratio, a cross/rectangle has a better ratio, with more seatage still accessible to the dance floor.

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    Re: How important is a venue's 'layout'?

    Quote Originally Posted by t0mt0m View Post
    seemed a decent 1-2,000 capacity for large events too (no doubting a monthly could fill it!).
    1-2,000?
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    Re: How important is a venue's 'layout'?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    1-2,000?
    Non-jive events! Might be cross purposes here though. This may easily have included upstairs numbers too.

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    Re: How important is a venue's 'layout'?

    Quote Originally Posted by t0mt0m View Post
    Which part of the Forum is used for Jive? Curious (having gone there last Friday - i'm thinking it'll have been a different crowd!) - the upstairs bar and linked 2nd room seemed ok - and the main ground floor section seemed a decent 1-2,000 capacity for large events too (no doubting a monthly could fill it!).
    Well, interestingly, the ijig Easter Sunday event at the Forum will have 2 rooms (1 Blues/Tango) - so I'm wondering where the 2nd room will be........... sounds good with a 1am finish. Wonder how the layout is going to work!

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    Re: How important is a venue's 'layout'?

    Quote Originally Posted by JiveLad View Post
    Well, interestingly, the ijig Easter Sunday event at the Forum will have 2 rooms (1 Blues/Tango) - so I'm wondering where the 2nd room will be........... sounds good with a 1am finish. Wonder how the layout is going to work!
    Very interesting!

    I'd love to know what the B&T room layout is like?

    Plus, one could do Berko, which finishes at 10:30 and head on over and have another 2 hours of Blues and Tango.
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    Re: How important is a venue's 'layout'?

    Quote Originally Posted by JiveLad View Post
    Well, interestingly, the ijig Easter Sunday event at the Forum will have 2 rooms (1 Blues/Tango) - so I'm wondering where the 2nd room will be........... sounds good with a 1am finish. Wonder how the layout is going to work!
    The smaller dancefloor upstairs, behind the bar?

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    Re: How important is a venue's 'layout'?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    I'd love to know what the B&T room layout is like?

    Plus, one could do Berko, which finishes at 10:30 and head on over and have another 2 hours of Blues and Tango.
    That’s exactly what I intend to do! Best of both worlds and for me it’s in the right direction for going home this time


    Quote Originally Posted by t0mt0m View Post
    The smaller dancefloor upstairs, behind the bar?
    I doubt it as that is open to the main sound system. I think there must be another suitable room in the building

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    Re: How important is a venue's 'layout'?

    The SU downstairs?

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    Re: How important is a venue's 'layout'?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    I've realised, that for me, one of the most important elements of an good evening, it the venue's layout.

    A venue can have the best dancers, great music, lighting and a good floor but if the layout is wrong, then then IMO the atmosphere will always be compromised!

    But speaking to several people, it would appear this more important to women, than men?

    Is that the case?

    A venue I went to recently of which i've been to many times before (but not for a while), - I straight away noticed big change in atmosphere. As soon as I walked in it seemed so much more friendly, relaxed and sociable during both the class & freestyle. I had no idea why,.... - I thought it was just me feeling different in myself.

    Chatting to the venue manager the next day she said "I made a very small change to the venue and it has seemed to have made a big difference, - did you notice that the atmosphere last night was different? ". I told her the change was huge and asked her what this small change was!?

    All she did was change the seating. By removing a few chairs, everyone is now all plonked in together.

    I found it difficult to believe at first that changing a few seats around would make such a difference, but the proof was in the pudding. Thinking more about it, it makes so much sense... - & I think it goes *some* way to explain why some venues have more of a warm feeling than others.

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    Re: How important is a venue's 'layout'?

    Quote Originally Posted by Phil_dB View Post
    All she did was change the seating. By removing a few chairs, everyone is now all plonked in together.

    I found it difficult to believe at first that changing a few seats around would make such a difference, but the proof was in the pudding. Thinking more about it, it makes so much sense... - & I think it goes *some* way to explain why some venues have more of a warm feeling than others.


    Seating's vital. I notice it most in AT venues, because of the different ask/accept/reject culture there. If you can't mingle and easily catch the eye of someone, you're pretty much stuffed in terms of dancing with new partners.

    So the best venues in terms of atmosphere are the ones which allow mingling - often by having all the seating put together on one side of the room, with a mixture of seats and tables.

    Of course, it's a chicken-and-egg situation - organisers who try to improve the atmosphere with seating typically do other things as well, and they also tend to attract a friendlier crowd also.

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    Re: How important is a venue's 'layout'?

    Just been to one Ceroc 'event' - £10 to dance in a packed gymnasium (with the worst floorcraft I've ever come across in 10 plus years anywhere) - okay the venue was clean and presentable oo, and there were chips for the masses, but there was no DJ ( aplaylist in abscence doesnt count)- imho the best way to knock the atmosphere,even when the DJ's there he dances a great deal leaving noone on the stage, I think someone is beginning to have a laugh,sorry its a bit of thread. People seemed happy to accept and enjoy it, but it's really not for me anymore, not with salsa, tango, modern jive elsewhere,.. Good Luck to Ceroc

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    Re: How important is a venue's 'layout'?

    Quote Originally Posted by Graham W View Post
    Just been to one Ceroc 'event'............, I think someone is beginning to have a laugh
    So you have not been banned from Ceroc after all

    Graham, You must understand, we don't go to Switch to dance, we only go for the chip butties

    I have to admit, last night, the floor craft was not brilliant. I had my best dance when everyone else was queuing for the chips and floor was quite

    I quite liked Tom's play list, but I agree, it's not the same as when his Dad is live on the Decks

    Back on subject. I think the layout a Greenway works well, a whole room for dancing with a bit of space to stand, sit and meet and a another big room, connected directly to the dance floor, for socialising. Unfortunately most of Bristol's proper Ballrooms have been demolished to make way for Supermarkets or carpeted over for heath and safety reasons. At least, unlike Elmgrove, the floor does not have any holes in it and the sound system is first class

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