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INFO FOR NON-MORRIS DANCERS
- What's it all about?
- Where and When?
- What am I seeing?
- Do you need to know more?
- Want to have a go?
- SIDES ATTENDING NOTTINGHAM REVELS 2009
What's it all about?
This Day of Dance is a celebration of
all forms of our Traditional Dance in
the fine City of Nottingham. The
groups (sides) are all members of
The Morris Federation, Open Morris, or
The Morris Ring.
The three organisations come
together as a massed group annually
in a host town. Nottingham Revels
2009 is organised by two local sides:
Lady Bay Revellers and Whip the Cat
Rapper, with assistance from
Nottingham City Council.
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Where and When?
The event will be opened by the
Sheriff of Nottingham at 10.10 am in
the Old Market Square on Saturday
28th March 2009.
There will then be
Morris Dancing at 14 locations around
the City and Rapper Sword dancing in
various pubs.
Over 50 sides are attending. At 3.30 all the sides will
join together in the Old Market Square
for a massed dance.
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What am I seeing?
Cotswold Morris: with sticks and
hankies, originating from the Cotswold
region.
This is what most people think
of when they hear the word 'morris'.
Border Morris: based on the traditional
dances of the English /Welsh
Borders.
Traditionally dancers would
try to disguise themselves by
blackening their faces with charcoal
or ash so that they could not be
recognised and accused of begging.
Some Border sides now decorate their
faces with elaborate patterns.
North West: usually processional
dances, danced in clogs, created in
the North West Mill towns.
Rapper Sword: small group dances
using flexible swords from the mining
communities in the North East of
England.
Longsword: from the North of
England, danced with rigid swords.
Molly: dancing originating from farm
labourers Plough Monday
celebrations in the Fens.
Clog Step: intricate step routines from
across the British Isles.
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Do you need to know more?
Ask the teams and they'll fill you in...
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Want to have a go?
Contact Lady Bay Revellers or Whip the Cat and
they will put you in touch with a local
side.
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SIDES ATTENDING NOTTINGHAM REVELS 2009
- Bare Bones - Loughborough
- Pecsaetan - Sheffield
- Anstey Royal Chalfont - Anstey
- Minster Strays - York
- Windsor - Windsor
- Persephone - Bradford
- Mortimer's - Local
- Maids of Clifton - Local
- Glorishears of Brummagen - Birmingham
- Nancy Butterfly - Bromsgrove
- Sergeant Musgrave's - Local
- Bakanalia - Leicester
- Three Shires Clog - Harthill
- Kesteven - Sleaford
- Ripley Green Garters - Ripley
- Sompting Village Morris Men - West Sussex
- Medusa - Knaresborough
- Bourne Borderers - Bourne
- Greenwood Clog - Local
- Foresters Morris Men - Local
- Coventry Morris Men - Coventry
- Dolphin Morris Men - Local
- Anstey Morris Men - Local
- Jockey Morris Men - Birmingham
- Ripley Morris Men - Ripley
- Winster Morris Men - Derbyshire
- Leicester Morris Men - Leicester
- Standon Morris Men - Hertfordshire
- Lord Conyers Morris Men - Rotherham
- Adlington Morris Men - Cheshire
- Bedcote Morris - Stourbridge
- Bunnies from Hell - UK
- Crosskey Clog - Peterborough
- Earl of Stamford's Morris - Warrington
- Mucky Mountains Morris - St Helens
- Rhubarb Tarts - Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Coast - Scarborough
- Rattlejags - Retford
- Alford - Lincolnshire
- Fenstanton - Cambridgeshire
- Milltown Cloggies - Rochdale
- Thieving Magpie - Huddersfield
- Boggarts Breakfast - Sheffield
- Sullivans Sword - Local
- Wharfedale Wayzegoose - Otley
- Ditchling - East Sussex
- Harthill - Yorkshire
- Ashleys Rise - Bristol
- Young Miscellany - Hertfordshire
- Crestwood - Dudley
- Ely & Littleport Riot - Cambridgeshire
- Lady Bay Revellers - Local
- Halam School - Local
Rapper Teams:
- Whip the Cat - Local
- Ryknild - Lichfield
- Warwick University - Warwick
- Chelmo Champs - Suffolk
- Sallyport - Newcastle upon Tyne
- Triskele - Sheffield
- Mountfield Rapper - Loughborough
- Maltby Phoenix Sword Dancers - South Yorkshire
