How To Dance At A Concert

Don't Stand Upward And Dance If You're In A Seat At A Gig

I see this every time I'm at a gig. People who bought seated tickets insist on standing upwards and dancing. Don't practise that. It'southward ignorant, inconsiderate and unsafe.

At most gigs where dancing will exist done, yous have a choice betwixt buying standing tickets or seated tickets. If you plan on dancing then you should buy a standing ticket. It'due south quite simple.

Do non buy a seated ticket it yous intend on standing up and dancing when yous should be sitting down.

I've been meaning to write this postal service for a while and so I recently saw this tweet from Jim Corr. He's in a band with his sisters and they played a gig where it seems security staff were asking people to stay in their seats, rather than dance.

There are a diverseness of reasons you shouldn't do this. I've split them into simple ones and somewhat more complex ones below.

For the tape, I'd argue the more complex ones aren't that complex and that any decent, conscientious person will sympathize them easily and likely already be enlightened of them.

The elementary reasons

1. Yous're blocking other people's view of the gig . Other people backside y'all and around you paid for seated tickets so they could stay seated and bask the gig. They don't want to be looking at your arse or back or having to crane their neck effectually you to catch a glimpse of the gig they paid expert coin to encounter.
2. Yous'll cause unnecessary hassle . I've seen arguments ascend from this situation multiple times. Those whose view is being blocked have exception to it and make their frustration known. Those blocking the view tend not to react kindly and stupidity ensues. Sometimes at that place are punches. Sometimes in that location are cross words. Sometimes there is tutting and heart-rolling. AtALL times, it'southward unnecessary.
3. Y'all're wasting the staff's time . Following on from the ii points above, quite oftentimes staff need to intervene and help resolve the state of affairs. Even earlier that, you'll often run across staff persistently have to speak to the aforementioned people to enquire them to stop standing up when they should be seated.
4. Yous're being ignorant and inconsiderate . Come on. You're probably a decent person and peradventure merely haven't considered the effect of your decision. Or maybe you lot're a prick. Either way, you're existence highly inconsiderate to those other people around you. Play nice.

The complex reason are all related to YOUR safety and the safety of anybody at the gig.

The more complex reasons

1. The staff have more than to be doing . Consider point 3 above. While the staff are having to spend time dealing with you lot they may NOT be doing what they SHOULD exist doing - monitoring the crowd, looking for safety problems, being located in their position in the event of an emergency evacuation.
2. You're compromising the venue design . A lot of time and money is spent on designing venues and so they are safe. Seated areas are designed differently to standing areas with the key difference existence that 1 of the key pattern assumptions is that people will be sitting downwardly, relieve when moving to and from their seats. That assumption informs every other pattern and safety imperative from pattern to build.
3. You're putting yourself and everyone around yous at adventure . Consider a gig where y'all're upward dancing instead of sitting downwards. The people in the row behind you do the same, every bit exercise the people behind them. They've picayune pick, if they want to run across the gig, as you lot're blocking their view if they sit down downward. Now, imagine 1 of them isn't every bit great a dancer as you are, has two left feet and had viii pints already. He loses his residue, topples forward, hits the people backside you lot, they striking you, you lot topple frontward. . . yous meet my point? In this situation the seats you lot should be sitting on go a greater adventure than they are if anybody is sitting and yous'll get injure. As will others.

The scientific discipline

I'thousand currently studying an MSc in Crowd Safety & Run a risk Assay and recently we looked at progressive crowd collapses, which is pretty much what I've described in point iii above. In particular, nosotros looked at 'persistent standing' issues where people are standing when they should be sitting downwardly.

I'm working with simulation software that allows me to change multiple variables in order to see how they impact the collapse. I can alter people's heights, centre of balance, the seat depths, heights, gaps between them and a whole lot more. The more than I watch all these little simulated people get injure the more than bellyaching I go.

The bottom line

Sit down down if you've paid for a seat. Don't exist so selfish.

Think about the consequence yous're having on others.

And if that doesn't make y'all sit down downward then, have it from me, by standing up you lot're making things dangerous for yourself and everyone else.

Source: https://www.cuckoo.ie/blog/safety-at-events/standing-at-gig.html

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