A theory . . . some "woo woo" ramblings on organizing practicas and milongas . . . What makes a milonga successful? Or a practica? Any individual factor can be bad enough to break it - if the floor is truly awful, many people won't risk injury to dance on it. It will be tough to reach "critical mass" attendance. If there is no parking, again, reaching critical mass will be tough. It can be done, but it will be that much harder. It's easy (for me anyway) to rattle off the qualities I like to see in a milonga/practica space - but there is one factor that's much harder to quantify. With this one factor, I will dance on a bad floor, happily pay a parking fee, go to another city to dance etc. What's the factor? Is the space loved? Not loved just by the owner of the space (though that is incredibly important) - but does the organizer feel strongly about the space itself? Not its floor, or parking, or lighting or sound system ind...
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