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- The Virtual Dance Room provides entertaining, educational, informative, joyous and fun-filled events of dancing, socializing and joining together while we're forced to maintain safe social distances
- While there is no charge to participate and subscribe, please consider making a generous donation to support VDR sustainability
- Your donations have helped the Virtual Dance Room in the following areas:
- Offer Weekly VDR Virtual Friday sessions featuring dance learning opportunities, performances, parties, group discussions, presentations, seminars, dance repertoire workshops
- Produce a One-day Virtual Door County Folk Fest (DCFF) on July 10, 2020
- Collaborating with the Argonne International Folk Dancers of (Illinois) and the L.I.F.E. Balkan Dancers (California)
- Inviting Master Teachers Steve Kotansky (New York), Tom Bozigian and Sheree King (California) to deliver dance workshops
- Engaging presenters Marvin Mohele (MIssouri) and John Robinson (Maryland) to conduct presentations and discussion groups
- Providing opportunities for regional group leaders to deliver dance workshops
- Host Saturday/Sunday Virtual Global Dance After-Parties (beginning in August 2020), recruiting global guest dance leaders and dancers from:
- North America (United States, Canada, Mexico)
- South America (Argentina, Brazil)
- Europe (Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, Czech Republic)
- Asia (Japan, Taiwan)
- Australia
- Provide training and technical assistance to the Online San Antonio (Texas) Folk Festival in August 2020
- Provide planning, training, technical and artistic support for the Texa-Kolo Festival (Texas, California) in November 2020
- Provide planning and technical support for the World Spring Camp (Massachusetts, Illinois) for March 2021
- Produce "All Live Music Dance Events" for the VDR in November, 2020, January 2021 and February 2021
- Plan and organize for a Door County Folk Festival (DCFF) activity for July 2021
- Negotiate with the Color Club, LLC Community Center and Studio (former Chicago Latvian Association Community Center) for studio space
- Move VDR operations to EDC's Dance Studio space at the Color Club Community Center
- Upgrade the VDRs Wireless and Wired Internet connections and network hardware to stabilize Zoom performance and reliability
- Upgrade the VDR computer equipment to provide for more stable Zoom sessions
- Upgrade to more Robust Zoom Large Group Meeting License to accommodate up to 500 participants
- Build the VDR website (www.virtualdanceroom.net) that provides participants with access to
- weekly dance playlists
- cumulative subscriber lists
- dance information cue cards
- links to other virtual dance activities
- technical support documentation for participants
- humorous aspects of the Pandemic
- Other relevant virtual dance information
- Upgrade the VDR Website to an SSL Certificate that protects sensitive organization and user information
- Utilizing and upgrading the Constant Contact Online Mailing Service to achieve a better than 50% open rate by:
- Designing and distributing a professional quality newsletter
- Maintaining and growing an effective mailing list
- Administering the MeetingQuality Environmental Health Check Survey that measures how well VDR participants (and other groups' participants) are dealing with social distancing imposed by the global pandemic
- Applying to the US Internal Revenue Service for status as a Section 501(c)(3) tax exempt nonprofit organization
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Virtual Dance Room - Purpose, Scope, Objectives (PSOs) [Top]
- Purpose
- to provide ways to keep global dance communities connected, active, communicating and vibrant while we are maintaining a safe social distance; and
- to relieve the stress of having to give up an important activity; and
- to ease the strain of being somewhat isolated
- Scope
- limited to forms of ethnic folk dance, contra/square dance, line dance, swing dance, round dance, for recreation and performance; and
- dance-related satire/comedy, health/wellness/sanity aspects of dance
- Objectives
- having fun
- socializing with others locally, regionally, globally
- dancing while exercising the body and the mind
- learning more about dances, teachers, musicians, singers, ethnicities
- sharing personal stories, videos, photos, etc. about an activity we love
- celebrating the diversity of a more global audience beyond the boundaries of our local/regional groups by doing dances we have in common
- offering opportunities to learn/share from a broader spectrum of dances beyond the limits of our local/regional repertoires
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