Morris dancing
read in the papers that there is a fear that Morris
Dancing will die out because younger people aren't interested in it.
This would be a pity: it's been a traditional part of country life for many
years. I was actually involved with folk dancing for a time when I was about 18:
I played the violin in a small folk dance band in the open air round
Stratford-on-Avon and at a few dance halls. We actually broadcast once - one
item in a pre-recorded programme of folk music: I did manage to hear the
transmission. It sounded pretty rough, to be
honest.Some of the band members were also in the Morris Dance troupe, so I saw it done quite a lot - dances with handkerchiefs, sticks, and 'swords' (flat metal with wooden handles) which would end up interlocked in the star shape which was the badge of the Folk Dance Society. This photo shows a troupe - probably the same one, though I don't know whether any of my friends were still in it by then - some eight years later, in August 1968 outside Anne Hathaway's Cottage at Shottery, near Stratford. Click here to see the full-sized photo. Posted: Sat - January 10, 2009 at 09:55 AM by Roger Wilmut |
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