121. Royal Oak Morris Homepage Royal Oak morris, Eydon, Daventry, Northamptonshire, UK, Homepage for We findthat our dancing is appreciated and we have been asked to dance all over http://www.eydon.org.uk/morris/

Royal Oak Morris Origins of Morris Dancing The origins of Morris Dancing in England are, as they say, 'lost in the mists of time'. There are some who claim that they are related to the Moorish dances done by the Arabs of medieval Spain, as there are similar types of dances elsewhere in Europe and some Morris dancers black up their faces! Others claim that Morris Dancing is a last vestige of the pre-Christian rites to ensure the end of winter and the spring renewal, pointing to the use of bells and clashing sticks to wake up the Earth and the tradition of dancing out at the winter and spring solstices. Whatever the truth, Morris dancing has been around a long time in England where the first written evidence for it is in an inventory of 1488 which includes a silver cup engraved 'Cum moreys dance' - perhaps an early prize! Even older, the reindeer horns used by the Abbots Bromley Horn Dancers of Staffordshire, one of the few sides with an unbroken tradition of dancing, have been carbon dated to before the Norman Conquest. That's not to say they have been kept in Abbots Bromley Church with the rest of the dance equipment all that time, but it makes you think! Morris Dancing in Eydon The Current Eydon Side The current Morris side knew nothing of this when they formed in the spring of 1985 to dance at the village fete in June. It was a real village (pub) side, being recruited in the bar of the Royal Oak, hence the side's choice of name, Royal Oak Morris. We have been a mixed side (i.e. with both men and women dancing together) right from the start, as the then landlady of the Royal Oak, Nina Turner, declared that if she wasn't in the side, none of us would get served! Originally started as something of a joke, we found it so much fun that we have kept going ever since. In place of our original two dances, we now have about 25 to 30 dances, mainly of the Cotswold Morris type, in our repertoire at any one time.

122. Mystical-WWW - Morris Dancing The morris dance is known to have been part of ceremonial occasions, The morrisdance is characteristically a formal dance in symbolism whilst also http://www.mystical-www.co.uk/morris.htm

Mystical World Wide Web An Introduction to Morris Dancing BACK 2 Mystical-WWW Subject Grid Back 2 Easter Eggs Morris Dancing has suffered from many misconceptions regarding the ritualistic and social origins of the various forms of dance on who might have been involved, why a certain dance was performed at a particular time of year and for what purpose...all leaving the inquirer somewhat perplexed. For those of you who are travelling to England in search of folk dance traditions or for those who would like to begin to find out more about a local group this brief introduction is given to wet your taste buds. If you would like to know more, Mystical WWW would be happy to answer any of your questions with the assistance of a dance researcher on the team. It is now widely accepted by academics that Morris Dances, like Country Dances, were, for many generations, part of English country social gatherings whilst also an early release for artistic expression. Many books have been written on the subject with perhaps the most prolific and respected writer being Cecil J. Sharp

123. GO BRITANNIA! Earth Mysteries: Morris Dancing Otherwise, Strutt suggests that the morrisdance originated from the Fool sdance (traceable to the 14th century), in which the dancers dressed in the http://www.britannia.com/wonder/modance.html

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124. Wales Millennium Centre - Mark Morris Dance Group SPECIAL OFFER Mark morris dance Group, James Thierree and Circuz Oz Book Once considered the bad boy of the modern dance world Mark morris is now an http://www.wmc.org.uk/index.cfm?fuseAction=SM.nav&UUID=F1F1ADDF-D794-EEC6-9338BD

125. Mark Morris At BAM By Laura Jacobs Mark morris’s arrival on the New York dance scene was spectacularly timed. To me, L’Allegro is another morris dance that looks like it was made at http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/21/jun03/jacobs.htm

Mark Morris at BAM by Laura Jacobs M The New Yorker Liebeslieder Walzer , Morris choreographed a dance to some of the same music and called it New Love Song Waltzes O Rangasayee , he even wore a diaper. Liebeslieder Walzer La Ronde Gloria to Vivaldi, a dance where spiritual prostration and sexual frustration knot up ecstatically. It could also look camp, which was no problem because Morris was pretty campy himself, his humor sort of Loony Tunes (batting his eyes at the audience, Morris is as faux femme as Bugs Bunny in drag). And it could look like nothing at all, as in a dance called Behemoth , a big, heavy, empty Merce Cunningham knock-off that just stands there with a leg dangling in the air. I Counterswarm ) or a religious congregation ( The Word The Office Mark Morris AIDS BAM gets Threepenny Review Foursome Ballet Review Ballet Review Ulysses The Four Temperaments , Pasternak, Pushkin, The Sleeping Beauty S I became disenchanted with Mark Morris in the 1990s. I tired of a gender neutrality that yet left women with the short end of the stick, mainly because the dances showed so little interest in la femme (these girls are kind of like Anybodys in West Side Story Dido and Aeneas . Fascinating too, because

126. Green Mountain Morris It is a living dance tradition with roots that go back to ancient The GreenMountain morris and Maple Leaf morris are based in Norwich, Vermont, USA. http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/~cgl/youthmorris/

G REEN M OUNTAIN M ORRIS D ANCERS A young men's team performing Morris dances from the Cotswold region of England M APLE L EAF M ORRIS D ANCERS A young women's team performing Morris and Sword dances from England Morris dancing is an energetic stick clashing, bell ringing, handkerchief flashing dance form, ideal for the energy of teenage youth. It is a living dance tradition with roots that go back to ancient England; the lively movements are said not only to please audiences, but as a springtime ritual dance, to awaken the earth. The Green Mountain Morris and Maple Leaf Morris are based in Norwich, Vermont, USA Maple Leaf Morris Marlboro Ale 2004 Videos by Tony Barrand: Beware Oh Take Care Flamborough Sword , and Bus Stop (requires RealOne Player Green Mountain Morris New Choreography: Upton in the Round (commissioned for Revels North 2004, loosely based on Chingsford/Upton stick dance) Saturday Night Billy (commissioned for Revels North 2003) Deck the Hall (commissioned for Revels North 2002) movie (5MB Quicktime) Just Another Saturday Night Glorishears Finale Movie Clips and Photos: Marlboro Ale 2004 Videos by Tony Barrand: Deck the Hall , and Black Joke (6) (requires RealOne Player Our youngest musician (32k photo) Deck the Hall 5MB Quicktime Movie (Revels, December 2002)

127. Dance (Dnce)—Morris Catalog dance (Dnce)—morris Catalog. The program explores dance as a performance artform and cultural expression of various societies throughout the world. http://www.catalogs.umn.edu/morris/div/mr42.html

Return to: U of M Home One Stop Directories Search U of M ... Morris Home Dance (Dnce) Division of the Humanities : Catalog Web Site Jump to course descriptions The program explores dance as a performance art form and cultural expression of various societies throughout the world. It is enhanced by performance opportunities, guest choreographers, conference participation, and other activities sponsored by the UMM Dance Ensemble student organization. The dance program helps students develop a working knowledge and a conceptual understanding of dance as an art form. Students are introduced to the cultural roots of dance, the traditions of training for dance performance, and the skills necessary for dance performance. Students interested in pursuing dance may create an area of concentration or emphasis by combining these courses with courses from other disciplines. Teacher Preparation Requirements Students seeking teaching licensure in dance and theatre arts K-12 should refer to the Education, Secondary (SeEd)

128. Morris Dance --  Encyclopædia Britannica morris dance ritual folk dance performed in rural England by groups of speciallychosen and trained men; less specifically, a variety of related customs, http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9053823

Home Browse Newsletters Store ... Subscribe Already a member? Log in Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Morris dance Print this Table of Contents Shopping Price: USD $1495 Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Hardcover) Price: USD $15.95 The Scrabble player's bible on sale! Save 30%. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Price: USD $19.95 Save big on America's best-selling dictionary. Discounted 38%! More Britannica products Morris dance Page 1 of 1 also spelled Moresgue, Morrice, Morisque, or Morrisk, ritual folk dance performed in rural England by groups of specially chosen and trained men; less specifically, a variety of related customs, such as mumming Morris dance... (75 of 482 words) var mm = [["Jan.","January"],["Feb.","February"],["Mar.","March"],["Apr.","April"],["May","May"],["June","June"],["July","July"],["Aug.","August"],["Sept.","September"],["Oct.","October"],["Nov.","November"],["Dec.","December"]]; To cite this page: MLA style: "Morris dance."

129. University Of Florida Performing Arts Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Mark morris dance Group, the company that theLos Angeles Times hails as “intensely musical, deceptively cerebral, http://www.performingarts.ufl.edu/perf.mark_morris_dance.asp

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130. THE BROOKLYN RAIL - DANCE By the time I first saw Mark morris dance Group, the company had been aroundnearly two decades and produced some of the most beloved dance and hyperbolic http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/dance/july04/stillfalling.html

from print edition web exclusive Still Falling for the Bad Boy by mj thompson July 2004 I left wondering what all the hoopla was about. On a recent summer’s night at BAM, however, Morris appeared as challenging a choreographer as one might hope to encounter—a testament in part to the fan I’ve become, and to the lingering ways in which this artist continues to pull our chains. All Fours (2003), set to Bartok’s "String Quartet No. 4" and mirroring its 5-part structure, offers a dark vision of collectivity, at once unified by hope and marred by doubt. Groupings form, disperse; there are encounters, then separations, marked by familiar gestures—for instance, a hand pressed to mouth then extended, as in good-bye. One motif finds dancers writhing in their earthly state; we see a group of eight bringing their hands together above them, like a prayer, then throwing their arms downward and behind, backs arched, hands claw-like. But is love or god the target of this anguish? Either way, Morris never did have much use for authority, and herein lies much of the scallywag joy of watching this artist. For Morris is no garden-variety bad boy; he’s been kicking against the forces that keep us down for over 25 years, in part through the content of his dance and in part through the very movement qualities he envisions. Folks like to talk about the "human" quality of his work, and by that I think they mean both the diversity of bodies involved and the apparent simplicity of his dance vocabulary. For instance, his eye for the uncodified gesture is acute; in All Fours, there are skips and hops, shudders and wobbles, falls and rolls. Here, the dance is so pared down as to appear minimalist—no small claim for a choreographer whose sense of history and affect produced such densely layered and monumental work as l’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (1988).

131. Information About Morris Dancing morris dance has been part of English life for at least six hundred years andmay be much older. While the style is peculiar to the English mainland, http://www.themorrisring.org/More/

The Morris Dance Cotswold Border Molly ... Ring Home THE MAGIC OF THE MORRIS A handful of present day Cotswold Morris Sides can trace their history back before 1800 - Bampton, Headington, Abingdon, Chipping Campden. However none of the Welsh Border Morris sides of Herefordshire, Worcestershire or Shropshire lasted beyond the Second World War. East Anglian Molly dancers suffered the same demise in the 1930s. The NW Morris processions that used to follow the rush carts to church largely died when the processions stopped, but there were still some processions up until the 1900s. Longsword such as Handsworth and Grenoside from South Yorkshire can trace their ancestry back at least a hundred years, but by the end of the first decade of the twentieth century longsword and rapper dance were slowly going into decline. The majority of Morris clubs dancing today are 'revival' clubs, formed after the early collectors had done their work. They meet regularly for practice and to give public shows, unlike the old sides that would often meet and dance for a short period each year. A side will have a Squire or Captain, a Bagman or Secretary, and often a Foreman responsible for teaching the dances. Each side will have its own costume derived from traditional forms, with perhaps a symbol or badge having some civic or territorial association. Many sides have a Fool and/or an Animal to amuse the audience. In the old sides the Fool was sometimes the Squire, as it was said that he had to be the best dancer.

132. Uklinks.org, Uk Links, Arts, Dance, Morris Dancing uklinks.org is the place to visit for links to all uk dance and dancing sitesand much more. http://www.uklinks.org/art_literature/art/dance/morris_dancing.shtml

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133. The Mark Morris Dance Group This year marks Resto s 20th anniversary with the Mark morris dance Group. But like any morris dance, it has a moral Age does not wither, http://www.danceinsider.com/f2003/f0417_2.html

Brought to you by the New York manufacturer of fine dance apparel for women and girls. Click here to see a sample of our products and a list of web sites for purchasing. With Body Wrappers it's always performance at its best. Go back to Flash Reviews Go Home Flash Study, 4-17: Dido and Didi Getting the Low-down on Morris's Guillermo Resto Whence could so much virtue spring What storms, what battles did he sing Nat. Tate, libretto for Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," 1689 By Nancy Dalva Guillermo Resto and Mark Morris in Morris's "Dido and Aeneas." Cylla Von Tiedmann photo courtesy Mark Morris Dance Group. Morris later made a thrilling cave-man stomp to Lou Harrison's "Grand Duo" called "Polka," which he had everyone moving like Resto full bodied, clear-cut, vigorous, and totally invested. (The 1992 work was incorporated the following year into the longer dance named for the music.) This last quality total investment in the material has made Resto the essential Morris dancer. It is the essential Resto quality. He had it the first time I saw him, in a really dreadful dance (not by Morris) in which he had to if memory serves jump through a paper hoop wearing a white-fringed cowboy outfit. (He did this with great dignity.) He has it today.

134. Dance Magazine The Mark morris dance Group, accompanied by violinist YoYo Ma and There isa reason the Mark morris dance Group calls the Bay Area its second home. http://www.dancemagazine.com/dance_magazine/reviews/show_review.php?f=august_200

135. The Australian: Industry Enjoys Its Morris Dance [August 04, 2005] The Australian, Australia s national daily newspaper. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16142495%5E25658,0

21 September 2005 Home Home delivery Online Archive NEWS Breaking News The Nation The World Sport ... Special Reports COMMENT Opinion Letters Cartoons SECTIONS The Arts Aviation Defence Features ... Travel RESOURCES About us Advertise CareerOne Classifieds ... Technology PROPERTY back PRINT-FRIENDLY VERSION EMAIL THIS STORY Industry enjoys its Morris dance Paddy Manning August 04, 2005 FROM mock funerals to costly economists' reports, it was the mother of all lobbying campaigns. This week the property industry succeeded in its campaign to have what it called the "world's dumbest tax" abolished. From the day it was introduced in May 2004, the NSW vendor tax sparked industry vitriol and, far from letting up, the ill-feeling intensified. By the end the hated tax was being blamed for just about everything wrong with the NSW economy. The core industry argument was presented in a report commissioned from Access Economics that showed the tax could cost the Government more money in lost revenue from purchaser stamp duty on the reduced number of property transactions than it raised. The Property Council of Australia pushed the message relentlessly in a slow-burn campaign monitoring the shortfall in monthly projected revenue from the tax.

136. MMDG - Mark Morris Dance Group He formed the Mark morris dance Group in 1980, and has since created over 100 works In fall 2001, the dance Group opened the Mark morris dance Center in http://www.markmorrisdancegroup.org/dancer.cfm

.The Company .Calendar .Dancers .Musicians ... .Positions Available DANCERS MARK MORRIS was born on August 29, 1956 in Seattle, Washington, where he studied as a young man with Verla Flowers and Perry Brunson. In the early years of his career, he performed with Lar Lubovitch, Hannah Kahn, Laura Dean, Eliot Feld, and the Koleda Balkan Dance Ensemble. He formed the Mark Morris Dance Group in 1980, and has since created over 100 works for the company. From 1988–1991, he was Director of Dance at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the national opera house of Belgium. Among the works created during his tenure were three evening-length dances: The Hard Nut L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato ; and Dido and Aeneas Mark Morris’ L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato: A Celebration , a volume of photographs and critical essays. MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP was formed in 1980 and gave its first concert that year in New York City. The company’s touring schedule steadily expanded to include cities both in the U.S. and in Europe, and in 1986 it made its first national television program for the PBS series Dance in America. In 1988, the Dance Group was invited to become the national dance company of Belgium, and spent three years in residence at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. The company returned to the United States in 1991 as one of the world’s leading dance companies, performing across the U.S. and at major international festivals. It has maintained and strengthened its ties to several cities around the world, most notably Berkeley, CA, where Cal Performances presents the company in two annual seasons, including engagements of

137. Mark Morris Dance Group - Update Mark morris dance Group Love Song Waltzes, New Love Song Waltzes, Dixit Dominus In terms of pure dance, it is vintage, mature, masterful morris. http://www.culturevulture.net/Dance/markmorrisupdate.htm

home dance destinations film ... archives Mark Morris Dance Group Love Song Waltzes, New Love Song Waltzes, Dixit Dominus Performance in Berkeley, CA March 19, 1999 Singing for Pleasure - The Westminster Choir Sings Brahms (includes Liebeslieder Waltzes (18), Op. 52: no 12, Schlosser auf ) The Telarc Collection Volume 9 (includes Liebeslieder Waltzes (18), Op. 52: no 12, Schlosser auf ) Handel: Dixit Dominus, Laudate Pueri Dominum Etc Orange Beads Handcrafted Tribal Shoes "It’s like a truffle," I enthused to The Beautiful Companion at intermission of the Mark Morris Dance Group performance in Zellerbach Hall, "You bite into the truffle and you get the flavor and texture of the rich chocolate exterior, then the burst of the different, contrasting flavor and texture of the filling. The two sets of flavors and texture play off of one another, adding complexity and pleasure to each other." Liebesliederwalzer Dixit Dominus , the premiere engagement of this dance. Morris’ choreography seems to grow organically out of his musical choices and is always impeccably tuned to both the broad sweep and the detailed phrasings and tones of the accompanying compositions. "Accompanying" is an almost dangerous word here, because both of these pieces of music are exquisite settings of text to voice with instrumental accompaniment, in themselves works of complexity and great beauty. In the Brahms, four voices, in a variety of solos and combinations, are accompanied by four hands at the piano. The Handel, too, has four voices plus a chorus and orchestra.

138. Mark Morris Dance Group Mark morris dance Group. the Mark morris dance Group, and for other majorcompanies such as the San Francisco Ballet and American Ballet Theater. http://www.culturevulture.net/Dance/markmorris.htm

home dance destinations film ... archives Mark Morris Dance Group Mark Morris Recommended reading: Mark Morris (1993), Joan Acocella Mark Morris' L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato: A Celebration (2001), Jeffrey Escoffier, Matthew Lore The Hard Nut VHS Falling Down Stairs DVD Over just a few decades, Mark Morris has choreographed over 100 works both for his own company, the Mark Morris Dance Group, and for other major companies such as the San Francisco Ballet and American Ballet Theater. In doing so, he has established himself as the most original, most intelligent, most accessible choreographer working in the world today. Morris' work grows out of a highly refined musicality. His interests range from baroque to rock and his delight in the music he selects for his works visibly flows in the movement of his dancers. Grounded in classical technique, Morris has evolved a style all his own, distinctly of the twentieth century. His dances have a thinking, witty, and ironic character rare on the dance stage. Still, even newbies to the dance audience will have no puzzlement at the unfolding pleasures on the stage. CV agrees with critics who say Morris' masterpiece is L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, ed IlModerato

139. Types Of Morris Dance A brief description of various types of morris dance, by Andy Anderson. http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/avenue/pd49/morris/types.htm

home about morris pockets ... email Types of Morris Dancing I play recorder for Cotswold and Border Morris, two different types of the dance. That's me with my back to you, playing as part of Fools' Maze for Sue to dance "Between the Wars" Some people don't realise that they have morris dancing in their area. Others think that the morris from their area is the only type. I recently met a man in Skipton who didn't realise there was any other sort of morris than the dancing he's used to (he was relieved to discover that Cotswold Morris doesn't use clogs, since he didn't see how southerners could wear them with any degree of conviction). Equally, my grandmother was scandalised to discover that I was playing for a morris side: in her area it's a competitive dance performed by young girls. The truth is that there are many types. Morris seems historically to have been a term used for any type of street performance related to the local style of dance - in Hampshire (as opposed to New Hampshire) it certainly once meant a Mummers' Play, which normally didn't have a dance with it at all. Virtually all morris performed in the UK is revived: the form had almost died out by 1899, when it was "discovered" by the folklorist Cecil Sharp, whose work was the catalyst that popularised the efforts of a number of other collectors such as Mary Neale, Maud Karpeles and Ella Leather. Sharp found his first Cotswold Morris side on Boxing Day 1899. Ironically, if the dancers hadn't needed the extra cash, they wouldn't have been out dancing until after Easter, Sharp would have missed them and I probably wouldn't be writing this page now.

140. Dance Magazine: Attitudes - The Work Of Choreographer Mark Morris Full text of the article, Attitudes the work of choreographer Mark morris from dance Magazine, a publication in the field of Arts Entertainment, http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1083/is_12_77/ai_111979447

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