Getting Men to Dance
I have just been looking at the pictures in past posts and have noticed that men feature almost as much as the ladies. The involvment in taking part in say Reggaeton class and line ups is equal if not more than the ladies in terms of percentage of men present. I all comes down to encouraging a little pushing and most of all giving the night the right atmosphere.
At our class at Acle last week we had too many men this has happened about 10% of the time.
At Sutton it has happened three times so far this year.
We all know that the man has a tough time of starting to dance as it’s lead by him the lady looks to him for the timing and he has to structure the dance and think of the moves. On top of this he has to learn to move. A lot to ask any beginner. On top of this he has to come through the British ethos that dancing is for girls, sic.
We find that when they do get to one of our classes they are as just as likely to stay as the girls. It’s just we are not getting the numbers of men thought the door in the first place.
One thing we have been doing is offering half price one to one classes for the men to help them get started.
£ 10/hr for both of us, Sharon to dance with and me to try to pick up on what is going right and what is going wrong. This is seems to be working. The cost if they come as a couple or normally one to one is £ 20/hr.
We also unashamedly targeting males with flyer’s.
Men at Sharon's Reggaeton Class