How many dancers are in the UK?

[CJ]

Yes, I think it's ambigous,

Ambiguous?!!?!?

You mean they can pay with their left hand AND their right!!!!!??

Cooooollll...

[Dreadful Scathe]

indeed - sometimes the Ceroc card and is all you need to get the chicks

"no i cant demonstrate just now - I sprained my dancers ligament."

[David Bailey]

Yes, I think it's ambigous, 55,000 members, or 55,000 admissions each month? Not quite the same...

So why are you complaining to me? I'm only repeating what ceroc.com says - I didn't have any other figures, so I used those. Do you have any better data?

Does anyone have any data?

I dunno, ask a simple question....

[spindr]

Rough count; on my Jive links/map page seems to have 319 regular weekly Modern Jive venues, 282 of these seem to be unique -- so 37 of them have events regularly on more than one night. Of course, there might be some missing

SpinDr.

[El Salsero Gringo]

So why are you complaining to me? I'm only repeating what ceroc.com says - I didn't have any other figures, so I used those. Do you have any better data?

I'm not complaining to you. I'm not complaining, and it wasn't to you. So there. (Is there a sticky-out tongue smiley that doesn't look like it's about to crap its pants?)

[foxylady]

(Is there a sticky-out tongue smiley that doesn't look like it's about to crap its pants?)

No, but we need one

[bigdjiver]

My guess is about 450 events a week, 40,000 attending per week, and about 150,000 "active" MJ dancers.

[Msfab]

My guess is about 450 events a week, 40,000 attending per week, and about 150,000 "active" MJ dancers.

Do you know how long they are "active" for?

[Dreadful Scathe]

Do you know how long they are "active" for?

they have a half-life of 12 years before they are normal again.

[Lou]

Do you know how long they are "active" for?

Stop poking them, then we might find out....

[David Bailey]

Oh, ***...

If you want something done well, etc.

*David flounces off to hit the Google*

[El Salsero Gringo]

Oh, ***...

If you want something done well, etc.

*David flounces off to hit the Google*

Yes, but if you want:

Someone to tell you why you shouldn't bother
Someone else to tell you why it's a meaningless question, but really you should be wanting something entirely different
Four wise-cracks (including one funny, and one you don't understand)
Someone to micro-analyse what you wrote, subject it to linguistic analysis and hilight every possible ambiguity and contradiction (don't say it..)
Someone to completely misunderstand what you intended to say
Three pieces of sexual inuendo loosely based on what someone thought you might have said (again, one funny, and one you don't understand)
and no answers to your original question,

then you've come to the right place.

[David Bailey]

... hilight ...... inuendo ...

You forgot "Oh, and someone to anally point out spelling mistakes".

[LMC]

< snips nearly comprehensive list, it's just up there ^^^ >

oooh, oooh, please tell me I was one of the funny ones?? please please pick me, pick me

Sorry ESG, but your list isn't quite complete.

You omitted:

• 243 posts arguing over whether someone who thinks f*o*w*rk isn't important is a true dancer
• gratuitous mention of the FSM
• and several thousand smilies

Of course, that's purely subjective opinion

[David Bailey]

OK, having spent an hour or so on Google, Wikipedia and elsewhere, I've got to come to the rather startling conclusion that... no-one really knows. Or if they do, they're not telling anyone about it.

That's a surprise - but I guess there are so many different dance styles and organisations, all competing with each other (even in the same genre), that the job of finding out a comprehensive set of nationwide statistics on this area is very difficult.

At least I've added to the vast number of things I don't know.

I'm now going with the LMC 2021 census idea - unless we can sneak "dancer" as an answer to the "religion" question in 2011, of course.