A mixer is a kind of participation dance for people who have some skills in social dancing. Mixers allow dancers to meet new partners; the beginners have a chance to dance with more advanced dancers and people may quickly assess dance skills of other persons without fear of being stuck with a poor match for the whole tune. At certain moments new pairs are formed in a random way.
For this contest you will place the name of a dance as the title of your poem. Please choose something different than each of the other dancers as you join in.
Under your poem title of, for example, WALTZ, quickly dash down a list of words, short (one line) thoughts or whatever occurs to you. At least five items. They may have nothing to do with dancing whatsoever.
Each day, for the first five days that the contest is open, you must come back in and add to your lists.
At the same time, you should be reviewing the lists of the other dancers in the hall. If you see a word, concept, quote, or line that you like, you may reserve it by claiming it and adding it to your own author's notes. Please write May I have this dance? in the other dancer's comments along with which item you are reserving.
Remember to update your dance cards every day and check out all the other dancers. You are free to choose as many items as you'd like. You just shouldn't reserve one that someone else has claimed.
On the sixth day, you may write your poem using the info you have collected from other dancers and placed in your author's notes. You will not be using your own lists - but you should save them in your author's notes as well, when you write your poem.
The poems should be written before the contest closes but not before the sixth day. Have fun!
graphic of Geranos, the crane dance, found at http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Dance.htm
For this contest you will place the name of a dance as the title of your poem. Please choose something different than each of the other dancers as you join in.
Under your poem title of, for example, WALTZ, quickly dash down a list of words, short (one line) thoughts or whatever occurs to you. At least five items. They may have nothing to do with dancing whatsoever.
Each day, for the first five days that the contest is open, you must come back in and add to your lists.
At the same time, you should be reviewing the lists of the other dancers in the hall. If you see a word, concept, quote, or line that you like, you may reserve it by claiming it and adding it to your own author's notes. Please write May I have this dance? in the other dancer's comments along with which item you are reserving.
Remember to update your dance cards every day and check out all the other dancers. You are free to choose as many items as you'd like. You just shouldn't reserve one that someone else has claimed.
On the sixth day, you may write your poem using the info you have collected from other dancers and placed in your author's notes. You will not be using your own lists - but you should save them in your author's notes as well, when you write your poem.
The poems should be written before the contest closes but not before the sixth day. Have fun!
graphic of Geranos, the crane dance, found at http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Dance.htm
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on May 25
- Rewards: Gold: 300, Silver: 75, Bronze: 75, Honorable mention: 1 people
- Final notes: Our Squares were Grande, Ladies; they did not fail
but now it's time to hit the Lonesome Trail!
Contest Winners
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Another fun game from your wonderfully creative mind. I MUST dance. Let me see what I can do.
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Great, Pamela, always happy to have you join the lines.
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Wonderfully creative. Sounds extremely fun
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well, promenade in...
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Wish I could, I just don't have the time. 
But it really does sound delightful
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If we're starting a day or so into this, should we have a longer list or still start out with 5?
Looks to be great fun...sure hope my muse cooperates, it's been temperamental lately.
Gonna give it a shot though.
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Yay, nice to see you here, Trista. You got in under the first 24 hours so you will still have a chance to add for five days, I think, but for latecomers, they can play it by ear and put up what they want to... you never know what dance moves will get used at that point. Someone could enter in the last minute if there was a spot open and just choose an item from one of the other's dance cards and write the best poem, but, yeah, it won't be likely that they will get a shot at the second gold for best list.
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Checking in from Mixer #2 -- I think I get it, for the most part. I makes me think of the Paul Jones dance my mom talks about -- WWII vintage.
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Great! You should change your title to Paul Jones then because you may note that Tango is already here. I don't know Paul Jones - must look him up. Welcome to the Dance Hall.
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Do we have the option of saying "no" if someone says "Can I have this dance". My mom (I keep bringing her up but she is a wonderful dancer) always said it was very rude to turn someone down and than dance the same dance with another gentleman!
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I agree with Mom.
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I take it you don't have use the entire list that you have reserved from others? It could be extremely lengthy.
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The idea is that yes, you will use your entire list. Otherwise, you may be reserving items that someone else really wants to use.
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This is absolutely brilliant! I only wish I had seen it sooner. It's a bit late to hop on board now. I hope you host another one of these if it turns out successful!
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It's actually not too late at all! Please come in and take a twirl... You have three days left to post lists and are free to choose from anyone else's dance cards... see what happens.
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What fun. Thanks so much for the bronze. Congratulations to all the dancers! ~Pamela
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Thanks, Pamela!
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