61. Bay Area Morris Teams One of the first local directories of morris dance teams and their specialities. http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/morris/ba.html

Bay Area Morris Teams These are most of the Bay Area morris sides Team Locality Gender Style Berkeley Morris Berkeley mixed C,B Mayfield Morris and Sword Palo Alto women C,LS,B,NW Deer Creek Morris Men Palo Alto men C,B Fools' Choice Morris Palo Alto mixed C [on hiatus] White Rat's Morris Seabright Morris and Sword Santa Cruz mixed C,LS Style Key C: Cotswold B: Border LS: Longsword RS: Rapper Sword M: Molly NW: Northwest DR: Dead Ringers typically forms at Halloween and dances Duns Tew in SF This list is incomplete. Many of these teams share members with each other. Additional info and corrections welcome. I have contact information for some of these teams. Some of these teams are affiliated with the Bay Area Country Dance Society (BACDS). BACDS holds numerous events, and their calendar is online. Steve Allen

62. Morris Dancers - EntsWeb Directory Bristol morris Men Bristol UK Bristol s longestestablished men s morris DanceSide, founded in 1951 Chiltern Hundreds morris Dancers Herts UK The Chiltern http://www.entsweb.co.uk/dance/morris/

Dance Morris Dancers Section Index Bassett Street Hounds NY US The Bassett Street Hounds, based in Syracuse, NY, have been performing the morris since 1985. Belfagan Women's Morris Cumbria UK Bristol Morris Men Bristol UK Bristol's longest-established men's Morris Dance Side, founded in 1951 Chiltern Hundreds Morris Dancers Herts UK The Chiltern Hundreds are a mixed Northwest team, based in Watford, Hertfordshire. Check out our website for details of where/when we're dancing, pictures and more information about the team. New members welcome thorughout the year - we practice most Tuesday nights 8-10pm at St Mathew's Church Hall, Bushey. Earlsdon Morris Men Warks UK Most of our dances are traditional, originating from the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire in England Hobos Morris Dorset UK Dorset's only Ladies Border Morris team, bringing style and spark to the Border Tradition Jockey Men's Morris Club Jockey were formed back in 1949 and we are very proud to say that we still have founder members regularly turning out - 50+ years on!!!

63. Ashley's Rise Junior Morris Children's morris dance side meeting and performing in the local area membership information, events, photo gallery. http://members.aol.com/ashleyrisemorris/arpage.html

Ashley's Rise Junior Morris 2003 Awarded the Gordon Crowther Memorial Staff in 2002 Ashley's Rise is a performing Morris side for young people aged 8 to 16 years Ashley's Rise practices Border and Cotswold Morris dancing and is currently performing as a Border side. This year we are fundraising to travel to Riga, Latvia in 2004 to take part in the Europeade Festival. As part of this fundraising we are dancing from Bath to Bristol along the Railway Path on Midsummer's Day, Sat 21st June 2003 as a sponsored relay In 2002 we received a grant for musical instruments from the National Foundation for Youth Music and bought a melodeon and drum click on these links to see what we get up to Become a member Chippenham Folk Festival Meet the members Events ... Scarborough Fayre Morris Festival For further information on Folk Activities in the Bristol Area Tel KIM 0117 940 1566 or visit Bristol Web Ashley's Rise is a member of EFDSS Open Morris Click here for other folk activities in Bristol

64. Mark Morris Dance Group Mark morris dance Group. Mark morris. .Recommended reading Mark morris (1993), Joan Acocella Mark morris http://www.culturevulture.net/Dance/markmorris.htm

home dance destinations film ... archives Mark Morris Dance Group Mark Morris Recommended reading: Mark Morris (1993), Joan Acocella Mark Morris' L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato: A Celebration (2001), Jeffrey Escoffier, Matthew Lore The Hard Nut VHS Falling Down Stairs DVD Over just a few decades, Mark Morris has choreographed over 100 works both for his own company, the Mark Morris Dance Group, and for other major companies such as the San Francisco Ballet and American Ballet Theater. In doing so, he has established himself as the most original, most intelligent, most accessible choreographer working in the world today. Morris' work grows out of a highly refined musicality. His interests range from baroque to rock and his delight in the music he selects for his works visibly flows in the movement of his dancers. Grounded in classical technique, Morris has evolved a style all his own, distinctly of the twentieth century. His dances have a thinking, witty, and ironic character rare on the dance stage. Still, even newbies to the dance audience will have no puzzlement at the unfolding pleasures on the stage. CV agrees with critics who say Morris' masterpiece is L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, ed IlModerato

65. Mark Morris Dance Group - Update Add to the lush and superbly performed music, with its textual base, the equalpartnership of the visual experience of the dance and morris’ own themes http://www.culturevulture.net/Dance/markmorrisupdate.htm

home dance destinations film ... archives Mark Morris Dance Group Love Song Waltzes, New Love Song Waltzes, Dixit Dominus Performance in Berkeley, CA March 19, 1999 Singing for Pleasure - The Westminster Choir Sings Brahms (includes Liebeslieder Waltzes (18), Op. 52: no 12, Schlosser auf ) The Telarc Collection Volume 9 (includes Liebeslieder Waltzes (18), Op. 52: no 12, Schlosser auf ) Handel: Dixit Dominus, Laudate Pueri Dominum Etc Music and Dance Behind the Scenes STARCK® ADULT ULTRASONEX TOOTHBRUSH "It’s like a truffle," I enthused to The Beautiful Companion at intermission of the Mark Morris Dance Group performance in Zellerbach Hall, "You bite into the truffle and you get the flavor and texture of the rich chocolate exterior, then the burst of the different, contrasting flavor and texture of the filling. The two sets of flavors and texture play off of one another, adding complexity and pleasure to each other." Liebesliederwalzer Dixit Dominus , the premiere engagement of this dance. Morris’ choreography seems to grow organically out of his musical choices and is always impeccably tuned to both the broad sweep and the detailed phrasings and tones of the accompanying compositions. "Accompanying" is an almost dangerous word here, because both of these pieces of music are exquisite settings of text to voice with instrumental accompaniment, in themselves works of complexity and great beauty. In the Brahms, four voices, in a variety of solos and combinations, are accompanied by four hands at the piano. The Handel, too, has four voices plus a chorus and orchestra.

66. Victory Morris Kited out in red waistcoats, black trousers and tricon hats this male side dance in the Cotswold style. Details include dance list, pictures and programme. http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/healb/vmorris.html

VICTORY MORRIS Select from the following: details current dance list most recent programme affiliations ... mainly for Victory members Victory Morris is: based in Portsmouth , Hampshire (see Hantsweb ), UK keen to appear at international folk festivals abroad anxious to recruit new dancers and new musicians Latest news Group website for Victory SING - virtually every Thursday after the dancing (see programme for details) Practice - Irish Club (8.00 - Sept to May) This page is maintained by Brian Heal. Brian.Heal@port.ac.uk.

67. Morris In Minnesota only 2 dancers in town (kind of like the old argument that there are only 2 Cotswold(thats in England, remember) morris dances The Hankie dance, and The http://www.hamline.edu/~thodapp/morris/morris.html

Welcome to a description of Morris dancing in Minnesota Morris dancing is a generic name for a number of types of traditional English dance forms. Although it is primarily used to describe Cotswold style dances, Morris also includes sword dances (primarily from the northern regions of England) and Border dances (from the Welsh-English border). Each of these dance forms have been and continue to be of a ritual rather than social nature, and have existed in one form or another for five centuries or more. Today they are danced by teams throughout the world, although primarily in England and the US. Minnesota is home to a number of ritual performance teams including 4 Cotswold teams (or 'sides' as they are called). They include MTM : Minnesota Traditional Morris (a men's side), the Bells of the North (a women's side), Ramsey's Braggarts (a men's side), and Uptown-on-Calhoun (a mixed [which is not to say confused] gender side). Several ritual sword-dance teams also exist. They are Vorpal Sword (an English Rapper-sword side), Short Sword (also Rapper), the

68. Webfeet : English Ceilidh, English Country, Barn Dance, French And Breton Dance Covers English ceilidh, folk, barn, Cajun, French/Breton and morris dance. Lists of events, bands and venues in the UK, with links to other sites, and a FAQ. http://www.webfeet.org/

Webfeet : Dancing on the Web Webfeet is English Ceilidh Folk Dance Barn Dance Cajun ... Events listings Webfeet moving... Or, has moved... The 'proper' address for webfeet is now http://www.webfeet.org/ . The address which has worked over the last 7 or 8 years, http://www.ftech.co.uk/~webfeet/ , will most likely continue to work for the interim but Ftech are not giving a long term commitment. If you link to webfeet, change your links to use http://www.webfeet.org/ URLs. News: A personal view of the history of English County music, Walter Bulwer to the Bismarcks. Two new sites, Derwenna with a Welsh touch to ceilidh and John Brown's site Ceilidh Calling Welcome to All Hands Around with their own site, a casualty when 'RootSource' disappeared. Might have been around for a while but No Masters have a site including details of Token Women Folk Roots have put their English Ceilidh article up on the web. have moved... the site is stompceilidh. And more... PoppyRecords hosting the Dancehouse Ceilidhs information.... Continuing the flood, Reel Dance have details of the

69. Morris Dance Index. morris dance. This is clogs. The Cotswold morris dance is performedwith bells, handkerchiefs, sticks and hand clapping. In other http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/m/morris_dance.html

Back to Home Page or Contents Page or Past and present beliefs or Index Morris dance T his is a lively reel or jiglike dance of Britain that might possibly be a relic of an old pagan May Eve ceremony, still performed in some countries at Beltane (see Sabbats ) and midsummer festivals. The Morris dance is thought to have been named after moeisca , a Moorish dance or play which is solely performed by men, and is believed to bring good luck. Morris dancing dates back to the 15th century, and some theories place its origin in Britain in the 14th century. The dance is descended from an old Moorish dance, the fandango of Spain. Also, is might be associated with a secret Moroccan cult, the Dhulqarneni, or "The Two-Horned Ones," who danced in a circle to raise magic power and worshipped the moon. It is believed to have been introduced into Britain from Spain by John of Gaunt, son of Edward III (1312-1377), who spent considerable time in that country. According to anthropologist Margaret A. Murray, an old Morris dance tune, "Green Garters," was the traditional music for the processional dance to the Maypole on May morning. The May games and dances, which were the pagan festivals and fertility rites, were important to villages, especially in the 16th century, and were tolerated by the Church during the 17th century, but the Puritans abolished them. Morris dancing was restored during the Restoration.

70. Bristol Hobby Horse Club Have fun doing folk activities, including singing, morris, sword, clog, mummers plays, crafts, music and social dance. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~phkrh/HHC/

Bristol Hobby Horse Club Singing, playing and folk dancing for children Page Move These pages have now officially moved to http://www.folkaroundbristol.co.uk/hhc.htm . Please update any links you may have. If you are not automatically forwarded to the new address, please click on the link. Please send any comments or corrections for this page to Keith R. Hallam (k.r.hallam@bristol.ac.uk) Click here for my home page. This page was last updated on 28th. November 2000.

71. Bibrit Partial Bibliography morris dance. 011466 Lester, Geoff. Handsworth TraditionalSword dancers. Ritual dance. morris dance. English Country dance. http://www.lloydshaw.org/bibmorris.htm

Partial Bibliography: Morris Dance Lester, Geoff. Handsworth Traditional Sword Dancers. 2nd edition, 1979. Sheffield, England: Handsworth Traditional Sword Dance, 1978. Note: Sword Dance. Ritual Dance. Dance History. A history of the Handsworth Traditional Sword Dancers, Sheffield, England. Sharp, Cecil J. Sword Dances of Northern England, Part I. 2nd edition. London: Novello and Company, Ltd., 1951. Note: Sword Dance. Dance History. Dance Instruction. Sharp, Cecil J. Sword Dances of Northern England, Part II. 2nd edition. London: Novello and Company, Ltd., 1951. Note: Sword Dance. Dance History. Dance Instruction. Sharp, Cecil J. Sword Dances of Northern England, Part III. 2nd edition. London: Novello and Company, Ltd., 1951. Note: Sword Dance. Dance History. Dance Instruction. Stone, Trevor. Rattle Up, My Boys. Sale, Cheshire, England: Trevor Stone, 1980. Note: Sword Dance. The story of longsword dancing, a Yorkshire tradition. Bradshaw, Helen. Dance of Merrie England. Chicago, Illinois: Colortext Publications, 1934. Note: Sword Dance. Dance History. Ritual Dance. Morris Dance. English Country Dance. Chapru, Ooleta. A Festival of the English May. Dodgeville, Wisconsin: Folklore Village, 1977. Note: Sword Dance. Dance History. Ritual Dance. Morris Dance. Festival.

72. BBC - Beyond The Broadcast - Making History Factsheet from a BBC Radio broadcast by Alun Howkins on the origins of morris dance. http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/beyond/factsheets/makhist/makhist5_prog9d.shtml

Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index TUESDAY 8th June 2004 Text only BBC Homepage BBC Learning Beyond the Broadcast Home Catalogue A-Z Factsheets A-Z Cashwise ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! Choose a category FACTSHEETS (free online) Radio 4 factsheets A-Z Information: other formats CATALOGUE (to buy) A-Z of all titles Animals, Nature, Gardening Art, Design, Antiques Film, Photography, Music Healthy Living History Languages Literature and Religion Science, Technology For information about obtaining this factsheet in other formats, click here Making History main page General history links Family and local history books ... Subject index Making History Professor Alun Howkins, professor of social history at Sussex University, discussed the origins of Morris dancing. He said that, as with many folk customs, the origins are hidden in the mists of time and coloured by later perceptions, which may or may not have been correct. According to Professor Howkins, when people recorded these customs in the 1890s, they were obsessed with seeking out ancient beginnings. In the seventeenth century there had been suggestions of a connection with Moorish dancing and it was adopted as a convenient theory. It fitted in, for example, because some dancers blacked up their faces and attached bells to their legs, which was believed to be something to do with North Africa. Similarly, there is no evidence that Morris dancing has any connection with pagan festivals.

73. English Folk Dance Music Project The English morris dance is probably derived from the Spanish or Flemish Morisco. Thecommon people call it a morris dance. Th. Blount, Glossographia. http://www.englishfolkdance.org/cotshist.shtml

Site Map www.englishfolkdance.org Welcome to the official website of The English Folk Dance Project An ongoing project instigated in 2001 to capture the music and atmosphere of English folk dancing at the start of the 21st century. Cotswold Morris: What is it? Series of recordings Order the discs History Folklore Mailing List A BRIEF HISTORY OF MORRIS Some of the documented facts about the Morris dance By Steve Douglas Origin One question that is often asked of a Morris dancer is "What are the origins of Morris dancing?" If you ask this question of half-a-dozen different people you will likely get six different answers. I used to think that no-one really knew. In one sense that is true, in another it is not. The problem comes down to what you actually mean by the question. If what you mean is "How did the dance come to be in England?" the answer is fairly clear-cut. The English Morris dance is probably derived from the Spanish or Flemish Morisco. Dictionary-writers began to assert this fact in the 17th century: Morisque: f. A Morris (or Moorish) daunce; also, the mizzen sayle of a Ship.

74. Bristol Morris Men's Home Page Long established men's morris dance side, founded in 1951 galleries, links and contact details. http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~lipw/morris/bmmhome.htm

This is the Bristol Morris Men's Home Page Who are we? We are Bristol's longest-established men's Morris Dance Side, founded in 1951. We perform Cotswold Morris Dances, (some more traditional than others!), to music provided by melodeon, concertina, fiddle or pipe and tabor. Our current active membership is around two dozen (including more than half-a-dozen youngsters, mainly children of adult members, who are our second generation!). We also have a cantankerous horse, called (funnily enough) Horse , who now has his own Web Page and e-mail address for fanmail! We are always delighted to welcome prospective new members, either dancers or musicians. No previous experience is necessary, but the best time for newcomers to investigate us, or start dancing is around October. This is because our practice season runs largely from the end of September to mid April. We dance throughout the year, but our busiest season for dancing out is between May and July. The official start of our dancing year is on May Day - May 1st - when we dance at sunrise, to the traditional audience of one passer-by and his (or her) dog Where can you find us?

75. The Atlantic | May 2003 | A Morris Dance | Salter The Atlantic Monthly May 2003 A morris dance by Mary Jo Salter .. TheAtlantic Monthly; May 2003; A morris dance; Volume 291, No. 4; 98. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/salter/morris.htm

Home Current Issue Back Issues The Archive ... Subscriber Help Browse >> Fiction Food Foreign Affairs Language ... More on poetry from The Atlantic Monthly. A Morris Dance by Mary Jo Salter Across the Common, on a lovely May day in New England, I see and hear the Middle Ages drawing near, a parade of Morris dancers. One plucks a lute. One twirls a cape. Up close, a lifted pinafore exposes cellulite, and more. O why aren't they in better shape, the middle-aged Morris dancers? Already it's not hard to guess the Wednesday-night meetings at the gym. They ought to practice more, or less, the middle-aged Morris dancers. Short-winded troubadours and pages, what really makes me so morose is how they can't admit their ages, the middle-aged Morris dancers. Watching them gamboling and tripping on Maypole ribbons like leashed dogs, then landing, thunderously, on clogs, I have to say I feel like skipping the middle-aged Morris dancers. Yet bunions and receding gums a member of their generation. Maybe they'd let me play the drums

76. The Morris Ring The national association of men's morris and Sword dance clubs. Details of membership, events and links to morris sides. http://www.themorrisring.org/

77. Mark Morris Dance Company At Jacob's Pillow In Becket, Massachusetts. review of Mark morris dance Company performance opening 2001 seasonat Jacob s Pillow in Becket, Massachusetts. http://www.newberkshire.com/archive/dance/morris.html

home archive advertisers berkshirelinks ... contact us "...the greatest performance of the summer." Mark Morris has returned to The Pillow in the 2001 season, putting on the greatest performance of the summer. He brings with him a varied collection of dances that show his range and genius. July 27, 2001 performance reviewed by Connell McGrath Morris choreographs his work by beginning with a piece of music, and creatiung movement from what he hears. Typically, his dances are tightly in-sync with the music, which they express with sublime fluency. The evening began with the very funny and lively Canonic 3/4 Studies (1982) to piano waltzes by various composers played in situ by Donald Berman. The dancers wore black tights and white t-shirts and did a variety of spoofs on the classical ballet genre. Although the piece was amusing and full of not-so-subtle distortions of ballet, it was neither vindictive, nor nasty. 'Irreverent' was the word that kept coming to mind, but there was depth and enough abstraction to allow each watcher to imagine his or her own meaning. This is an early work for Morris - he created his Group in 1980 at the age of 24 - but it has an insight and maturity of vision, and is still fresh today. Studies was a reaction to Morris’s early ballet career which he left because, among other reasons, he grew tired of pretending to be in love with ballarinas.

78. Cotswold Morris Dance Detailed Notes Full description of numerous dances by Andrew from Lagabag morris. Also cheat sheet for 66 dances. http://duramecho.com/Dance/CotswoldNotes/index.html

Cotswold Morris Dance Detailed Notes Version 76 (Formats: individual pages per dance all on one page to print or the source code What is it? It is a set of detailed instructions for a number of Cotswold Morris dances (a type of traditional English performance folk dancing) that I wrote when trying to learn them or as reference. I have put them on the WWW lest it is of use or of interest to anyone else. I make no guarantees as to the accuracy (these were all written down from life not from canonical reference books). The notes are very long winded. My much shorter Cotswold Morris Dancing Cheat Sheet , which just contains summaries, might be of more use. Choose a View The notes are available both as individual pages, one per dance, or all on one page: View as individual pages per dance View as one huge page containing all the dances (177 Kb). Download for Printing Lest you want to print out a paper copy (about 30 sides of A4 in double column smallish font), here it is. To save paper, print on both sides Download as a Zip-compressed PDF file (313 Kb).

79. Mark Morris Dance Group At Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Review of Mark morris dance Group at Jacob s Pillow dance Festival, July 17, 2003,Becket, Massachusetts. related links Jacob s Pillow. Mark morris dance Group. http://www.newberkshire.com/reviews/03/jp-mm.html

@import url("/css/3may.css"); This site was designed to be viewed in a browser that supports web standards but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device. related links: Jacob's Pillow Mark Morris Dance Group e-mail a link to this page: home archive berkshirelinks advertisers ... contact us from the lewd to the sacred July 2, 2003 performance reviewed by Connell McGrath Mark Morris Dance Group returned for the fourth consecutive season with a great set of performances for sold-out audiences at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Morris' Group transitions from crotch-grabbing lewdness to a dance that most closely resembles the rituals of Egyptian priests. The work they are presenting this year spans 21 years of choreography, beginning with a 1982 piece called New Love Song Waltzes and ending with his latest piece, Serenade , which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the spring of 2003. New Love Song Waltzes opens this season's show. It is set to Brahms' piece by the same name, performed this year to live music by four singers and two pianists. It revolves around the familiar early Morris theme of the mechanics of love stripped of its sentimentality. We don't see the suffering of loss, abandonment, and betrayal, nor do we see the ecstasy and passion of new love.

80. Morris A performance group for a style of Old English dance. http://www.bloomington.in.us/~morris/

Bloomington Quarry Morris Morris Dancing Year 2002 Photos Year 2000 Photos 1996 Photos Spring Morris 2004 May 1st Dawn (0545) Monroe County Courthouse; 8:30 at the Farmer's Market, followed by other locations throughout the day. May 8th Shipshewana May Festival at Greenfield Herb Garden beginning at 11 a.m. May 15th Day of Dance in Bloomington beginning at the Farmer's Market at 10:30 a.m. May 29-30 Midwest Morris Ale , Boulder Colorado All performances are free, although donations are accepted. Morris dancing is a traditional village festival dance from England. The dances Bloomington and Ann Arbor Morris perform are from the Cotswold area of England, as well as some Midwest American dances. Bloomington Quarry has performed at dawn on Mayday at the Courthouse over 25 years, the Shipshewwanah May festival and ethnic and renaissance festivals in Terre Haute, Indianapolis and South Bend. More information on morris dancing is available from the combined website of the british morris organizations, at http://www.morrisdancing.org/

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