Judith Proctor's Journal

 Side A and Side B cannot go in the same dance spot as they fell out earlier this year and aren't talking to one another.
Sides C, D, E, F, G need power as they dance to recorded music.  Sides H-P have string bands and need a PA system including several mikes and other bits and bobs and also need wooden boards or a stage to dance upon.  Side Q cannot dance on tarmac (wooden clogs without rubbers).  Sides R-U are children and I'd prefer to keep them out of the pubs if possible.  Side V is a Welsh dance side I met in interesting circumstances and need to have a spot with Anonymous.  Side W is a hoop dancer and needs sound, but she's bringing her own boom box.  Sides X-Y are choirs and need a space where their voices will bounce off surrounding walls to amplify it a bit - one of them also needs a power point for a backing track.  Side Z is a Ukulele band who don't use PA and needs a place where they won't be drowned out.  Sides AA - DD have people who have offered to do workshops, so cannot be programmed against the workshop.  Sides EE- ZZ have no special requirements, but one should try to have visual variety by not putting Cotswold with Cotswold, or North West with North West, etc.  Also, no side should have two consecutive dance spots.

Each side has different arrival and departure times.  Programme 3-4 dance spots per day for each side, bearing in mind that morris sides work in pairs, but Appalachian dancers (and Slovakian dancers) and choirs and street dance groups can do a full half hour spot on their own (but don't do processions).

Ensure that all 3 main dance spots are filled for as much of the day as possible, then try and provide dancers to all the pubs that have asked for performers (always more than you are actually able to supply) and provide children's dance groups for Willow Walk.

When you have done all this, proof read to find the errors that the spread sheet checker can't spot, rinse and repeat.

Remember that J needs somewhere to change costume in mid-act, that DD use a solo musician and had better not be close to the street dance group as the sound will be drowned, and last, but not least, remember that you have to add in a maypole session on Sunday afternoon on the Minster Green...

Replace torn out hair with wig!