Korner Dancers

Do you love Gorean Dance but sometimes find it hard to find 2 hours for a contest or expo?  Welcome to a new format: "Korner dancing".  

Our goal is to add (not replace) existing event formats with something fun that will also exercise our impromptu dance chops.  It can be done near a role-play context so you can please more free from your home.

We focus on low stress fun.  You don't need to buy a lot of animations, write a lot of posts, splice a lot of music, or plot a lot of movers.  It's fault tolerant in case extra dancers show up, or some crash (or never make it).  A good sessions should take 45 minutes.

Two of my Korner dancers practice their instruments.

Here is how to do it.

Roles:  

• One MC (Master of Ceremonies).  They will need to know how to use dance huds.
• and from 4 to 7 dancers.

 Items needed: 

1. An animation HUD for the MC that can invite others.  (Recommended, SpotOn Smooth Dancer)
2. Animations for the dancers in the Hud. (Recommended, stuff from Henmations - get the Copy version of the animation to keep your life simple)  Put them in your HUD so you can animate your dancers.
3. A musical instrument for most dancers (incase too many show up and you need to give them something to do as they wait - or if you wish to treat the musicians as a first class function).  Pick something that has an animation but allows you to play with sounds Off.  (Recommended: Haiku: or Mikki Miles)

• Optionally a group mover (Recommended, SpotOn Group Formation System) 
• Optional - an outfit for your team (For Koardan's Korner dancers and Mirage dancers, we use the Alaaya black chalwar by Mirage Treasure Company & Kastle Rock

Though we love our DJs and music, actual sound will be handled informally to keep things simple.  For fancy preplaned stuff you can organize a traditional exposition event or competition.  The Korner format is simply a more structured impromptu tavern dance designed to minimize work and maximize entertainment for the audience (and dancers).  Yes to silence, imagine the music in your mind.  Yes to music from scripted objects.  Yes to pasting a soundcloud or youtube link.  No to fiddling with a stream and dealing with it's delay  (steams are possible but discouraged for this format).

Steps

1. Pick an MC to lead the session.
   
2. Invite dancers to attend.  Hope for four dancers.  Extra people will be musicians.  If you have less than four you can bring an alt or rezz fewer movers.  But in keeping with 'Corners' theme, always four there are (ideally). That's part of what makes it a Korner format session.
   
3. The MC will rezz your controller for your group mover if desired and rezz 4 movers (or not using that, order the dancers to stand where you wish). 
   
   If you have more than four dancer, put the extra in a row to the side to be musicians.
   
4. The MC will invite them to dance using your hud.  Make them dance per the animations of the MC's choice.
   
5. The MC will prompt each of the dancers in turn to post an emote (short paragraph) on the fly describing how people can see them react to something in the environment (Impromptu Dance Faction).  Impromptu!  Use your senses - no thought emotes allowed.  If the audience can't perceive it imply it with things they CAN perceive. 
   
   Good example: The dancer reached for the ceiling with slender arms, her hands twisting like osts in the noon sun.  Her gaze falls from her hands down to the foreign Jarl passed out at the far table as the smell of his spilled mead fills the room.
   
   Bad example:  The dancer wonders who this Jarl is, where he comes from.  Her heart yearns out to him without him even knowing as she pleases the crowd with her motions.
   
   (Recommended: My Snow's Impromptu tavern dance workshop series to learn more)
   
6. If a girl crashes drag a musician in to dance.  If a dancer comes late give them a flute and put them work pleasing the crowed with their musical tones.
   
7. After a post or 3 by each girl conclude the event, and send people to the alcoves, kennels, or kitchens as desired (Back to roleplay!)  Do not let it drag on for more than 40 Ehn.

Wardrobe Note: Koardan's Mirage dancers will wear the Alaaya black chalwar with belt, wrist and arm bracelets and chest jewelry, but not the toe jewelry, circlet, or veil, unless otherwise specified.  It is rigged mesh and comes with different sizes.  Link to Marketplace: Alaaya black chalwar by Mirage Treasure Company & Kastle Rock.

Uniform for Koardan's Mirage and Korner dancers.

Variants

• 'Unity'  Variant: Have everyone dress the same
• 'Regions' Variant: Have them dress to each represent a different region of Gor  (Gorean Dance Oasis and others teach more about regions).  Max of 4 per session.
• 'Book Dance' - Have each of the four dancers prepare a different type of book dance.
• 'Factions' - Have each of the four dancers perform something from this list.  Dance Faction, Story Faction, Verse Faction, Creative Faction.   

Note these skills will add to your GDO Banner and learning.  But more importantly, you will please the free, and practice your skills.

See you in the Taverns.
~ Koardan Head of Slaver case at Teehra, and co-founder of Gorean Dance Oasis ~

((Fine Print: Korner Dancing is CC BY - M. Koardan, ndp.  Use it, tweak it, enjoy it, but reference me as the author of the Korner format when listing credits.))