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How to encourage intergenerational dancing? How to successfully communicate re: intergenerationality to younger dancers?

• Encouragement from the caller between dances
• Floor leaders who lead by example
• Telling friends about good older/younger dancers
• Dance with everyone! Others will follow the example, hopefully
• Ask someone to dance
• Bring your parents (or kids!) to a dance and dance with them.
• Encourage young dancers to dance with older dancers by pointing out that maybe they could learn something form their wise elders.
• Discourage older men from being overly flirtatious with younger women (3 people seconded this idea with checkmarks)
• on the other hand, it can be disappointing to dance with someone overly reserved because they're worried about how they'll be perceived - focus should be on paying attention to your partner; we're not all the same!
• Callers should try to avoid letting there be "young" and "older" sets. People don't even know how good a lot of the older dancers are, because they never even rotate through them. (Could try a goal of an "average age" per set and move people).
• When you do ECD, playing up the flirtation is kind of fun, as long as both parties KNOW it's only for the duration of that particular dance
• Encourage older people to dance with more energy!
• This is offensive

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