LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's morris dancers, renowned for bells on knees, coloured rags and flower-bedecked hats, are launching a recruitment drive to convince young people that their stick-slapping ...
Watch the trailer for Morris: A Life With Bells On Outsiders always consider morris dancing to have some controversial elements. The lavish outfits and general flamboyant appearance of the dances ...
When the thousands assemble for May Morning in Oxford on Wednesday, there will, as ever, be singing from the top of Magdalen Tower and morris dancing in the streets below, writes Tim Healey. One team ...
Abingdon’s historic Market Square burst into rhythm and colour over weekend as Morris dancers took to the cobbles for a ...
It began here 26 years ago. Christopher Sblendorio stood in a hallway at the Rudolph Steiner School, where he teaches, playing the accordion. He started up an old English folk tune, the kind built ...
All the women had bobbed hair and wore long white skirts and the men were, to all intents and purposes, in cricket whites. There was a tangible sense of gay abandon as if at any moment Gatsby might ...