Help New name for song/dance workshop

Subject: Help New name for song/dance workshop
From: Joybell
Date: 06 Dec 04 - 08:38 PM

I was involved in producing a "Play-Party" workshop, video and booklet designed for use by leaders and carers of elderly people and people with special needs. An organization promoting fitness employed me for this after I hit on the idea and used it with a local elderly group.
(Play-Party is ideal because it's self-regulated as to timing and easily adapted if necessary. Also elderly people already know the songs and are not shy about singing. My original group is now going around teaching the dances in schools among other places.)

I renamed the program "Singing-Dances" because in Australia the term "Play-Party" isn't known, although the games/dances and the songs are.

Our problem has been in selling the idea to the leaders. Once we get a leg in, people are keen. Mainly the title didn't work. Australians think they can't sing for a start. Also there was already a program called "Sitting-Dances" which is too similar sounding and very, very popular. (This one is movements done to a CD of someone singing - all it requires is someone to put the CD in the slot. No problems selling it!).   

So!! Any ideas for a change of title for "Singing-Dances" It can have a sub-title too. Key words that are popular are "Gentle" "Movement" "Rhythmic" and I'd really like to keep "songs". I'd very much appreciate your ideas for a new title. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: Help New name for song/dance workshop
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 02:07 AM

Back in the 1960s, BBC Schools Radio had a programme called "Music and Movement". It was pretty ghastly to be honest, but the name, or some variation on it, might possibly serve if not too many of your groups grew up in the UK...

Subject: RE: Help New name for song/dance workshop
From: Snuffy
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 08:35 AM

A Right Song & Dance

Subject: RE: Help New name for song/dance workshop
From: KateG
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 12:43 PM

Dancing Songs

Subject: RE: Help New name for song/dance workshop
From: Joybell
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 05:36 PM

Thanks Malcolm, They won't know about the UK program. The leaders are mostly too young and they're the ones we have to target.

Snuffy, I really like that one.
and
Kate That's simple and catchy and tells it all.

We could add a subtitle to any one of those. I knew my Mudcat friends would come up with good ideas.
True-Love suggested, "Sex After Sixty." subtitled, "Keep fit for it" being as how that would catch the eye, but I don't know?.

Thank you Malcolm, Snuffy and Kate. Cheers Joy

Subject: RE: Sex after Sixty
From: Joybell
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 05:41 PM

There that's better. Jumps out at you doesn't it. Sorry for the cheap trick. ;-)

Subject: Queen of the LARGE-PRINT songbook
From: Joybell
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 06:27 PM

Well! "A Right Song and Dance" it is. Thank you Snuffy.
KateG. They almost went for your idea with the added word "Gentle", but Snuffy's it is.

Funny development. I made them a CD of the songs. Reluctantly!! because I know it will be used for the dancing, defeating the whole purpose of self regulation. Younger Australians are just not happy about singing and the leaders are mostly young. Anyway the whole package wasn't going to work without a CD. Now everyone's delighted with a CD of three voices singing unaccompanied and in unison. Simple songs over and over. The CD is going to be issued seperatly as well - AS A SING-A-LONG. I've always said that if I ended up in a nursing home with the large-print song book in my hands, I wanted to self-destruct. Now I'm the Queen of the large-print song book! AHHHH! I'm glad everyone's happy though. And thank you again Snuffy. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: Help New name for song/dance workshop
From: open mike
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 06:59 PM

chair dancing?

Subject: RE: Help New name for song/dance workshop
From: Joybell
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 06:10 PM

open mike, That would have been a better name for the other program this group markets. It got called "sitting dances" which was too close, in name, to the one I offered. This other program is really just simple waving and arm movements, so it's a long way from dancing. I actually did have a few "chair dancers" in one workshop. People in wheel-chairs. It's one of the good things about Play-Party - that it's so adaptable. Cheers, Joy