We were beset by *two different* dance groups, actually. In the morning, while we were setting up, a group of about a dozen came in with a boombox full of disco and R&B, and they did tae-bo and pilates in the middle of a group of vendors setting up their tables. Odd, but not disruptive. And hey, free floor show, and I got to do the YMCA while setting up the gift-wrap table. :)
It was around 4:30 that the 60 or so people for the dance party started congregating in the same area, insisting that they'd paid for the space and that we had to move out. When we moved some tables but didn't leave the mall, they decided to surround the area, glare at us, block traffic, and threaten to knock over tables and break things. Some of our vendors started to pack up to move further out of their way, but then mall security, and the mall manager confimed that we did indeed have the right to the space, and that the hip-hop raver brute squad would just have to use one of the other dozen empty areas in the mall.
Also, it turned out that they had neither paid for the space nor told the mall that it would be a teenage dance party -- they'd gotten the space *donated* for "a six-year old's birthday party".
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Date: 2006-12-04 09:39 pm (UTC)It was around 4:30 that the 60 or so people for the dance party started congregating in the same area, insisting that they'd paid for the space and that we had to move out. When we moved some tables but didn't leave the mall, they decided to surround the area, glare at us, block traffic, and threaten to knock over tables and break things. Some of our vendors started to pack up to move further out of their way, but then mall security, and the mall manager confimed that we did indeed have the right to the space, and that the hip-hop raver brute squad would just have to use one of the other dozen empty areas in the mall.
Also, it turned out that they had neither paid for the space nor told the mall that it would be a teenage dance party -- they'd gotten the space *donated* for "a six-year old's birthday party".