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SUMMARY:Last session of 6 Week Programme - Return to Dancing Fitness - Rhys Boorman (LIVE on Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:6 Week Programme – Return to Dancing Fitness – Rhys Boorman\nRhys Boorman is running a ‘return to dancing fitness’ programme starting with a ‘live’ session on Sunday 21st March\, and another ‘live’ session 6 weeks later on Sunday 2nd May. \nIn between the two ‘live’ sessions\, Rhys and the Morris Federation will be sending you weekly workout sessions to focus on improving your fitness in preparation for (finally!) returning to dance practice and/or dancing out. \nThe eagle-eyed amongst you will have worked out that this is actually 7 sessions. \nThe ‘live’ sessions will be approximately an hour and will include: \n– 5 minutes – Warm Up\n– 5 minutes – Mobility/Stretching\n– 5 minutes – Basic Morris Stepping\n– 15 minutes – Core workout to aid balance while dancing\n– 15 minutes – Plyometric Workout – to add some power and spring into your step\n– 10 minutes – Cool Down\n– 5 minutes – Q&A \nThe previous sessions are on the YouTube Playlist: Return to Dancing Fitness Playlist \n– Week 1 was a ‘live’ session’ including Warm Up and Cool Down. \n– For Weeks 2 to 5 please do: Warm Up / ‘Easy’ or ‘Hard’ option for that week / Cool Down. \nYour host\nRhys Boorman is a PE Teacher\, and while in lockdown has kept up his fitness by completing weekly core and plyometrics sessions similar to the ones which he will be leading in the workshop.  He has had plenty of practice at leading unruly groups due to his job as a PE Teacher! \nHe also likes to regularly run half marathons for fun\, and is currently in the middle of marathon training. \nRhys dances with multiple teams including: Mad Jacks Morris\, Sussex Junction Morris\, Clausentum Morris\, Harlequin Morris & Berkshire Bedlam. \nTo register\nPlease complete this online form: Register for the 6 Week Programme – Return to Dancing Fitness – Rhys Boorman; you will receive a confirmation email immediately (check your spam/junk/promotions folder!).  We will send you a Zoom link a couple of days before the event.  ** IMPORTANT: Please don’t Register again if you have already registered for the event on 21st March and have been receiving weekly emails from us.  Open to all – you don’t have to be a member of a team in The Morris Federation. \nOptional Donations\nIf you enjoy this event\, then it would be wonderful if you could send a donation\, small or large\, to Mind\, supporting people experiencing mental health problems:  https://www.mind.org.uk/donate/
URL:https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/event/programme-return-to-dancing-fitness-2/
LOCATION:Online over Zoom
CATEGORIES:Morris Federation,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Talk - "Who were the sword dancers\, and why did they do it?" - Andrew Kennedy (LIVE on Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Recording of event\nThis talk took place using the Zoom video service on 2 May 2021. A recording of the talk is available on YouTube: “Who were the sword dancers and why did they do it?” – Talk by Andrew Kennedy. \n \nTalk – “Who were the sword dancers\, and why did they do it?” – Andrew Kennedy\nRecords of sword dancing can be found dating as far back as the fourteenth century\, and enough books and articles have been written about it to form a small library.  Much of what has been written focuses upon the action\, the events. \nThis talk takes a look at the people who danced\, focusing on Britain and northern Europe from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century\, and in particular at certain rare cases where we can investigate individual named dancers and find out a surprising amount about them. \nIf you’d like to read more about this and other aspects of sword dancing that have interested Andrew\, please look at his website About Sword Dancing at www.sworddance.info \nFeatured image: Nürnberg Schwerttanz der Messerer 1600 \nYour host\nHaving been an enthusiastic country dancer as a child\, Andrew Kennedy fell into Morris dancing while at university before finding his way to rapper.  When he grew up he became a longsword dancer\, going on to play for dancing and then to write a bit about it. \nHe edited the sword dancing newsletter Rattle Up\, My Boys for a while and organised the overseas teams for the 2004 and 2008 International Sword Spectacular festivals. \nHe has danced/played with teams including Clydeside Rapper\, Carlisle Sword and Morris Dancers\, Sallyport Sword Dancers\, East Saxon Swords\, White Star Sword Dancers\, Thrales Rapper\, Southport Swords\, and the North British Sword Dancers. \nTo register\nPlease complete this online form: Register for the Talk – Who were the sword dancers\, and why did they do it? – Andrew Kennedy; you will receive a confirmation email immediately (check your spam/junk/promotions folder!).  We will send you a Zoom link a couple of days before the event.  Open to all – you don’t have to be a member of a team in The Morris Federation. \nOptional Donations\nIf you enjoy this talk and would like to make a contribution then please support the sword dancing newsletter Rattle Up\, My Boys or\, better still\, subscribe – a very reasonable £8 for one year (4 issues).  Email: rattleupmyboys@gmail.com
URL:https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/event/who-were-the-sword-dancers-andrew-kennedy/
LOCATION:Online over Zoom
CATEGORIES:Morris Federation,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Talk - 'Morris Dancers and Rose Queens' Volume 1: 1888-1900 'Once over Lightly' - Johnny Haslett (LIVE on Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Talk – ‘Morris Dancers and Rose Queens’ Volume 1: 1888-1900 ‘Once over Lightly’ – Johnny Haslett\nJohnny Haslett takes us on a tour of his book Morris Dancers and Rose Queens (Volume 1) – an anthology of reported Carnivals and Galas in West Lancashire between 1888 and 1900\, together with the accompanying morris dancing activity. \nThis is a definitive work about the sociology of Lancashire at the end of the nineteenth century. \nCarnivals and Galas that took place in West Lancashire\, as the nineteenth century drew to its close\, have been meticulously researched together with details of all the accompanying Morris dancing activity. Selected newspaper reportage from the time\, giving a unique perspective on the lives of the ordinary people\, is used to paint an amazing picture of the communities of the region as a whole. \nHere we have Morris dancing teams that travelled distances to perform in towns beyond the county limits\, teams that couldn’t afford to move about and stayed near home. Morris dancers who were influenced  by the dancing of other teams or who started up in a town or village following a visit from dancers of another town. Benefactors who invested in their local team. Its all here. \nA unique and valuable source of reference\, this book brings together a wealth of fascinating information for the serious researcher and casual reader alike. \nJohnny Haslett has published 3 volumes of Morris  Dancers and Rose Queens; Volume 4 will be out soon. \nYour host\nJohnny Haslett has been involved in North West Morris dancing for many more years than he now cares to remember. Living in Leyland\, in central Lancashire\, not only was it virtually inevitable that he should spend much of his working life at Leyland Motors\, but it was an almost equally natural sequence of events that led to him becoming a member of the Leyland Morris Men. \nSwept along by the enthusiastic tide of new teams in the late seventies\, he later joined the revived Preston Royal Morris Dancers and subsequently became their leader. \nTo register\nPlease complete this online form: Register for the Talk – Morris Dancers and Rose Queens Volume 1 1888-1900 – Johnny Haslett; you will receive a confirmation email immediately (check your spam/junk/promotions folder!).  We will send you a Zoom link a couple of days before the event.  Open to all – you don’t have to be a member of a team in The Morris Federation. \nOptional Donations\nIf you enjoy this event\, then it would be wonderful if you could send a donation\, small or large\, to Johnny’s chosen place – The Morris Federation.  Click ‘Buy Now’ to donate by Paypal (opens in new window – enter “Johnny Haslett” in the description\, and close that window when finished).  Or contact us (select Membership & Merchandise) for our BACS details – please use “Johnny Haslett” as the reference for your donation. All funds raised from this talk will be ‘ring-fenced’ to support suitable North-West Morris related projects. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/event/morris-dancers-and-rose-queens-volume-1/
LOCATION:Online over Zoom
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