This blog is one of an occasional commentary on dance events I attend. I'm not affiliated in any way to the dance organisers, I've been to all of the Southport weekenders since Ceroc took over the venue from Jive Addiction in August 2008, including Jive Addiction's last event. As I've commented before, it is interesting to see how patterns of behaviour have changed. More people arrive later in the day nowadays - partially because roads seems to be more congested and also because I think more people only leave after work rather than taking the day off. Similarly more people, it seems, leave on Sunday afternoon and early Sunday evening. I think the age of the participants is changing upwards and the expectation of the customers is changing too. Summer SP is normally pretty well gender balanced but this year that seemed to go awry and I was very aware that some of the best female dancers in the country were sitting out through lack of partners. It woul...