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How to get dancers of other styles into contra?

• Half night one sort of dance, half night contra
• Tell them you'll go to their dance if they come to yours (trade)
• someone else underlined "to yours" and wrote "loaded!"
• Demos at breaks
• Advertise (mutual)
• It's helpful when callers can mix in a square or English dance
• Hartford Community Dance has one night a year (I think) where they have contra, swing, Cajun/zydeco, other dances the same night
• Maybe describe contra in terms of other dances? -- it's a little like swing
• OR JUST BRING THEM!
• Lots of contra bands have distinct styles. So invite a dancer who has not gone to a contra to a dance that has a style that they would like. For instance take a swing dancer to a "swingy" contra
• Play some contra music at the end of the dance. (get them excited about music first - most of the time, it's music that makes you want to dance!)

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