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SUMMARY:Talk - "Considering Morris Dance Costumes as English National Dress" - Chloe Middleton-Metcalfe (LIVE on Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Talk – “Considering Morris Dance Costumes as English National Dress” – Chloe Middleton-Metcalfe\nThis talk engages with a recurring popular quandary: Why does England not have a national dress? \nChloe Middleton-Metcalfe by Susan Bell\nDescribed by renowned British folklorist Steve Roud in The English Year as the ‘arch-symbol of official fakelore’ the concept of national dress can be divisive. Despite this\, the idea of an English national costume is not dead and continues to capture some element of the public imagination. If the relatively recent letters section of various national newspaper are anything to go by\, then morris dance costumes are considered to be a possible contender for the title. \nStarting its exploration in the Edwardian folk revival and finishing in the late twentieth century\, this talk will consider the shifting relationships between revival morris costumes and the deliberate projection of Englishness. In summary it will\, with all due seriousness\, explore the arguments for\, and against\, treating morris dance costumes as a form of English national dress. \nThere will be time for Q&A. \nYour host\nChloe Middleton-Metcalfe is in the process of completing her PhD on the subject of English social folk dance at the University of Roehampton. She originally trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in costume making\, and runs the English Folk Costume Archive. She continues to have an active research interest in material culture and dress. \nUseful Links\n– English Folk Costume Archive: https://www.facebook.com/englishfolkcostumes \n– Academic Profile: https://roehampton-online.academia.edu/ChloeMetcalfe \n– EFDSS guide to English folk costume (authored by Middleton-Metcalfe): https://www.efdss.org/learning/resources/beginners-guides/34-english-folk-costume \n– VWML Social Folk Dance Bibliography (authored by Middleton-Metcalfe): https://www.vwml.org/images/VWMLASSETS/PDFs/IntroductoryBibliographyTraditionalSocialFolkDance.pdf \n– The Grand Union Canal Entertainment Company (Middleton-Metcalfe’s performance act):  https://gucecompany.com/ \n– The History and Development of Dark Border Morris (authored by Middleton-Metcalfe): A MF Digital Publication: https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/merchandise/cds-books/ \nTo register\nPlease complete this online form: Register for the Talk – Considering Morris Dance Costume as English National Dress; 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 Chloe’s chosen place – The Morris Federation.  Click ‘Buy Now’ to donate by Paypal (opens in new window – enter “Chloe” in the description\, and close that window when finished).  Or contact us (select Membership & Merchandise) for our BACS details – please use “Chloe” as the reference for your donation. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/event/morris-costumes-as-english-national-dress/
LOCATION:Online over Zoom
CATEGORIES:Morris Federation,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211107T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211107T153000
DTSTAMP:20260428T190919
CREATED:20210615T184537Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop - Whitby Toesday Hornpipe Clog Routine for Beginners & Intermediates - Melanie Barber (LIVE on Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:2 Part Workshop – Whitby Toesday Hornpipe Clog Routine for Beginners & Intermediates – Melanie Barber\nMelanie Barber will teach both the Whitby Toesday Hornpipes\, for Beginners and Intermediates\, comprising ten steps\, which she wrote for the Whitby Folk Week Community Facebook Group in 2016. A basic knowledge of clog techniques such as straight and round shuffles would be useful but not essential. \nTwo 1.5 hour teaching sessions 11:00-12:30 and 14:00-15:30 to build to the performance of a clog stepping routine. \nEquipment Needed\nClogs or hard soles shoes are required\, plus a hard surface to dance on\, e.g. wooden floor\, wooden board. \nYour hosts\nMelanie Barber started clog dancing in 1979\, learning from Sam Sherry and Pat Tracey\, and collecting steps from Bill Gibbons and Bert Bowden\, and has been teaching clog since the early 80’s.  She was a founder Lancashire Walloper\, then a member of Camden Clog\, and now dances with Strictly Clog. \nMike Adamson learnt to play the melodeon in 2006 for Hammersmith Morris\, and started playing for clog and North West Morris in 2007.  Melanie & Mike formed Three’s a Crowd in 2014 having started to do solo bookings. \nTo register\nPlease complete this online form (coming soon): Register for the Workshop – Whitby Toesday Hornpipe Clog Routine; 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. \nThe Zoom link will be the same for the 2 sessions. \nOptional Donations\nIf you enjoy this event\, then it would be wonderful if you could send a donation\, small or large\, to Melanie & Mike’s chosen charities: Christies Cancer Research and their local Sheffield S6 Foodbank.
URL:https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/event/whitby-toesday-hornpipe-clog-routine-2021/
LOCATION:Online over Zoom
CATEGORIES:Morris Federation,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211114T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211114T140000
DTSTAMP:20260428T190919
CREATED:20211030T182858Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop - Cotswold Morris - Ducklington Jig 'Nutting Girl' (LIVE on Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Workshop – Cotswold Morris – Ducklington Jig ‘Nutting Girl’ – for Beginners/Progressors\nAndrew Knight and Lin Steel\, with musician Tony Warren\, will teach a Cotswold morris jig (solo dance) for those with some experience of Cotswold morris\, and also suitable for those who attended our beginners Cotswold workshop last year. \nThe dance is ‘Nutting Girl’ in the style of Ducklington\, and as usual it will be as recorded by the collectors.  During the 2 hour workshop they will cover the form and steps of the dance\, and build to the whole jig. \nFor those that like to hear the tunes and /or see the dance entirely first\, there are links in the Resources section below.  We encourage you to listen/view these before you join the workshop.  Full notation is available for download there. \nYour hosts\nDance leaders – Andrew Knight and Lin Steel\, with Musician Tony Warren.  Lin has danced from early childhood and is a professional dance teacher with the RAD\, her Morris history starts with Border and she made the transition to Cotswold on moving to Somerset\, she has danced most genres of Morris.  Andrew is an Osteopath and has danced Morris for 25+ years almost exclusively Cotswold; both have been teachers/fore(wo)men and leaders/squires of several teams and both dance with multiple teams.  Andrew wrote the Warm up information 2nd edition for The Morris Federation. \nAndrew\, Lin and Tony currently perform with the Knights of King Ina morris jig team\, based in Somerset (see more below). \nTo register\nPlease complete this online form: Register for the Workshop – Cotswold – Ducklington Jig; 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 Yeovil Freewheelers Blood Bikes: https://www.yfwbloodbikes.org/ \nResources\n– Video: Andrew Knight and Lin Steel dancing: ‘Nutting Girl’ in the style of Ducklington – Front View and ‘Nutting Girl’ in the style of Ducklington – Back View and ‘Nutting Girl’ in the style of Ducklington – Side View (2016) \n– Video: Warming up and Cooling Down for Morris Dancers on the MF YouTube Channel \n– A folder containing: Dance Notation and music dots for ‘Nutting Girl’ Ducklington Jig in the MF Notation Library \nKnights of King Ina\nSee the KOKI Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheKnightsOfKingIna and the King Ina YouTube Channel \n \nKOKI – back in 2010 faced with the imminent demise (never happened) of a set team\, several people joined to study Jig dancing as a way of improving their dance and to avoid being reliant on large numbers to go to Festivals. That and there are not many Jig teams about – at the time we found 2 active and 2 inactive in the UK and another also just starting out like us. \nAt the outset we decided to avoid the inevitable provenance arguments about how its supposed to go and to revisit the – usually handwritten – first collection notes. Our re-interpretation of these is the same starting point that all the revivalists had (apart from those meeting the old dancers) any subsequent variation from first recorded is to suit the dance to us. \nOver the years from humble beginnings we have performed at many festivals\, won medals\, and given a workshop series twice a year in Somerset covering most of the traditions that have Jig dances in their repertoire. There is a notation series and music for all of these available free from us. We now have regular members from the South Coast to Herefordshire and meet regularly to practice (subject to legal restrictions!)\, members of the team have taught and performed in Europe and Australia and during Lockdown we developed a video set and notation for Ilmington teaching used internationally.
URL:https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/event/cotswold-morris-ducklington-2021/
LOCATION:Online over Zoom
CATEGORIES:Morris Federation,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211114T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211114T183000
DTSTAMP:20260428T190919
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211112T210235Z
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SUMMARY:Talk - "A History of Mumming" - Stephen Rowley (LIVE on Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Talk – “A History of Mumming” – Stephen Rowley\nIn the last 20 years significant advances have been made in understanding the origins of mumming and mummers plays.  The ‘pagan’ fertility ritual of life and death theory has been thoroughly rebutted and shown to be a misguided scholastic invention of the 1880s.  Examination of the evidence reveals a rich and colourful story of traditions with threads extending far beyond the shores of Britain. \nTalk for approx 50 mins then time for Q&A \nYour host\nStephen Rowley founded the Mummers Symposium in 2011 – an annual meeting of mummers\, folklorists and academic researchers from around the world.  He is also a musician and dancer\, founder of the International Mummers Festival\, the International Pipe and Tabor Festival\, and The Taborers Society.  He has performed and taught widely in Europe\, USA\, Russia and Australia.  He has a particular interest in the festival procession dances of the Iberian peninsular and their music. \nTo register\nPlease complete this online form: Register for the Talk – A History of Mumming; 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 Bowel Cancer West via: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/stephen-rowley3
URL:https://www.morrisfed.org.uk/event/talk-a-history-of-mumming/
LOCATION:Online over Zoom
CATEGORIES:Morris Federation,Workshop
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