Reading, Arisia
Jan. 4th, 2006 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mnemeReading Cordwainer Smith's The Space Lords. Pretty good; the people who said I needed to read Smith were right. One peeve -- why are the stories in reverse publication order (with the exception of "Mother Hitton's Little Kittons; the worst of the lot)?
Two: Arisia seems to have decided, for the second year in a row, that historical dancers don't deserve prime space, time, or billing. That instead the right thing to do is to schedule modern dance in the ballroom for both evenings. Are they on crack? Arisia's historical dance events have drawn very nice crowds, year after year, rain or shine, and Arisia has nothing to gain from pissing off the people who want to do dancing at Arisia that -isn't- modern club dance, especially when that's a very large demographic, one cutting across age groups.
Do they?
Two: Arisia seems to have decided, for the second year in a row, that historical dancers don't deserve prime space, time, or billing. That instead the right thing to do is to schedule modern dance in the ballroom for both evenings. Are they on crack? Arisia's historical dance events have drawn very nice crowds, year after year, rain or shine, and Arisia has nothing to gain from pissing off the people who want to do dancing at Arisia that -isn't- modern club dance, especially when that's a very large demographic, one cutting across age groups.
Do they?
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Date: 2006-01-04 05:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-04 05:14 pm (UTC)If you hold a well-attended historical event and a crowded modern event, you get people from both demographics. They both like you, and they'll stick around to do other things.
If you hold two modern dance events, the people who like modern events will like you a lot...and spend all their evenings in the dances. The people who like historical dance events will get annoyed, and quite possibly not show up.
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Date: 2006-01-04 07:19 pm (UTC)I wouldn't take this as a slight to historic dance; I'd take it as a sign that the staff just wasn't organized enough to make it happen. Still lousy, but less personal.
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Date: 2006-01-04 07:31 pm (UTC)I'm especially annoyed, mind, because this isn't the first year I've been deprived of my Arisia ball -- last year, what there was of a ball was very early on Friday, before we arrived. :(
demographics
Date: 2006-01-04 08:30 pm (UTC)if enough minors complain about the lack of historical dance, they might bring it back.
since I knew I was not really attending this year (except for party visits), I didn't keep up with the 11 month old plan to reduce the amount of competing [programming] (including not "programming division" events), which may have affected the ballroom too.
gaming was decently attended too, but I hear it's been entirely revamped, taken out of stanbro, and shoved into an antisocial corner.
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Date: 2006-01-04 08:32 pm (UTC)I entirely agree. One of the things I love about sci-fi cons has been there ability to satisfy the numerous desires of its diverse demographic.
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Date: 2006-01-05 09:28 am (UTC)