Directory of Morris Resources

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Morris is a traditional dance form from England. It is a ritual or performance dance rather than a social dance. There are various different types of Morris Dancing originating from different areas of the country. Although most styles are now performed by sides all over the country and around the world.

Subcategories

• Border
• Carnival
• Cotswold
• Molly
• North West
• Step Clog
• Sword

Resources in This Category

• Abram Morris Dancers

  http://www.abram-morris-dancers.org.uk/contents.htm
  History of the Abram Morris Dance, and the modern revival side who perform the dance annually.

• Hastings Jack in the Green Festival

  http://www.hastingsjack.co.uk/
  Occurs every May over the Early May Bank Holiday weekend. Features Folk Music, Ceilidhs, Morris Dancers, Giants, and the Jack in the Green.

• Leicestershire Morris Dancers

  http://www.thehat.free-online.co.uk/folk/morris/leicsmorris.htm
  A listing of all sides in Leicestershire and Rutland including contact details and a photo of each team.

• Morris Dancing & May-day Games

  http://chrisbrady.itgo.com/morris/morris.htm
  Scanned pages from Walford's Antiquarian, 1886.

• New England Folk Festival Association

  http://www.neffa.org/Top/Folk_Dancing/Morris/Teams/index.shtml
  List of sides in New England, USA.

• Old Mettle

  http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/mettle.htm
  Entertaining and informative article on this nineteenth century morris dancer and fool.

• Open Morris

  http://www.open-morris.org/
  One of the three umbrella organisations for morris sides.

• Origin of the Morris

  http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/Red_Herring/origins/
  Spoof morris origin theories. Each time you go to this page you get a different explanation/theory as to the origins of morris dancing.

• Rattlejag Morris

  http://www.rattlejagmorris.org.uk/
  History, contact details, photographs and event list of this mixed side from Retford, Nottinghamshire.

• Recently Traditional Fictional Morris

  http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/AntiMorris/
  Contact details, photographs and event list of this side from Boston, Massachusetts. Description of the 'Anti-Morris' based upon writings of Terry Pratchett.

• Roy Dommett's morris notes

  http://www.opread.force9.co.uk/RoyDommet/
  Notes on the numerous boolets, lectures and articles produced by Roy over the years on cotswold and border morris dancing.

• San Francisco Bay Area Morris teams

  http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/morris/ba.html
  One of the first local directories of Morris Dance teams and their specialities.

• The Britannia Coco-nut Dancers

  http://www.coconutters.co.uk/
  Contact details, history and photographs of this unique traditional men's side from Bacup, Lancashire.

• The Fabulous Fezheads

  http://www.fezheads.net/
  Contact details, photographs and amusing member biographies of this groups of 'Sand-Dancers from tropical Kent'. Site also contains details of their annual Fig and Date Fayre.

• The Flag & Bone Gang

  http://website.lineone.net/~teddodsworth/fandb/flagbone.htm
  Description of this very modern side who have created a new style based on the so-called 'Forgotten Morris' From Yorkshire.

• The Morris Dancer's WebRing

  http://www.webring.org/webring?ring=morris
  Navigate around a ring of member sites all on the subject of morris dancing. From here webmasters can also submit their sites for membership.

• The Morris Ring

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

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