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Country Dance and Song SocietyRENTAL VIDEOS |
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insert link)Need to ***purchase metal longswords or rappers OR ***rent longswords, rappers, morris bellpads and other dance equipment?CEREMONIAL DANCE IN ENGLAND 1979
Filmed and edited by Dr. Anthony G. Barrand in 1979, this project was co-sponsored by the School for Traditional Dance and Song and CDSS.
| REEL #1 - Cotswold Morris 1 | ||
| Team: | Bampton-in-the-Bush (Francis Shergold's side) | |
| Location: | recorded at a folk festival in Nantwich and Crewe, Cheshire | |
| Dances: | Jenny Lind; Banbury Bill; Step and Fetch Her; Lumps of Plum Pudding; Nutting Girl; Shave the Donkey; Highland Mary; Constant Billy; Step and Fetch Her; Bonny Green Garters | |
| Team: | Gloucester Old Spot Morris Men | |
| Location: | recorded in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire | |
| Dances: | All of their dances are from the Longborough tradition. Belle Isle's March; Jockey to the Fair; Glorishears; Hey Diddle Dis; Morris Off | |
| REEL #4 - Cotswold Morris 4 | ||
| Team: | Wheatley Morris Men | |
| Location: | recorded at Windsor Park Zoo | |
| Dances: | Trunkles; Constant Billy; Room for the Cuckoo; Bobbing-a-Joe; Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?; Shepherd's Hey (set dance); Rakes of Mallow; Shepherd's Hey (solo jig) | |
| Team: | Westminster Morris Men | |
| Location: | recorded at Stowe-on-the-Wold | |
| Dances: | Standard routine used to introduce the Unicorn, Adderbury Princess Royal, Longborough Staines Morris, Longborough Bob John, Upton-on-Severn Stick Dance, Bampton Bonny Green Garters | |
| REEL #6 - Cotswold Morris 6 | ||
| Team: | Green Man's Morris and Sword Club | |
| Location: | recorded at the Canal Junction at Fradley, Warwickshire, and at Warwick Castle | |
| Dances: | All dances from the Lichfield tradition. Shepherd's Hey; Milley's Bequest; The Vandals of Hammerwich (2); Ring O'Bells; The Sheriff's Ride; The Barefooted Quaker; Ring O'Bells; Nuts in May; Castering (2) | |
| REEL #7 - North West Morris 1 | ||
| Team: | Manley Morris dancers | |
| Location: | recorded at Crewe and Nantwich in Cheshire | |
| Dances: | Two complete routines or sets of figures, Manley Processional | |
| REEL #8 - North West Morris 2 | ||
| Team: | various | |
| Location: | recorded at several villages in north Sussex | |
| Dances: | Knots of May (Garland and Cheshire dances collected from women), Preston Carnival, The Wain (Flemish Garland dance), Hindley, Knutsford, fragment of an unidentified Cheshire dance, Letterkenny Basque Garland dance, Marston (performed with garlands), Brighton Lasses (Garland), unidentified Cheshire dance | |
| REEL #9 - North West Morris 3 | ||
| Team: | Manchester Morris Men | |
| Location: | recorded at the Packhorse in Mottram in Longendale, Lancashire | |
| Dances: | Colne, Godley Hill, Oldham | |
| Team: | Bedford Morris Men | |
| Location: | recorded at Warwick Castle | |
| Dances: | The Polka Dance, Royton | |
| Team: | Horwich Prize Medal Morris Dancers | |
| Location: | not specified | |
| Dances: | Two versions of the Horwich dance; unidentified Northwest dance | |
| REEL #10 - Sword Dance 1 (Longsword) | ||
| Team: | Grenoside Sword Dancers, Handsworth Traditional Sword Dancers, Redcar Sword Dancers | |
| Location: | not specified | |
| Dances: | the dance from Greatham | |
| REEL #12 - Clog Dance | ||
| Team: | Paul Brown; Green Ginger; Hoddesden Crownsmen | |
| Location: | not specified | |
| Dances: | Hornpipe (Durham style) danced by P. Brown; Green Ginger (3 dancers, woman
in center with red clogs was runner-up in the 1979 Northern Counties Championships)
Waltz Clog -- danced by Green Ginger; Hoddesden Crownsmen Westmoreland Reel -- danced by Green Ginger (solo) Cumberland Reel -- danced by Green Ginger (4 women in reel formation). Westmoreland Reel -- danced by Hoddesden Crownsmen (3 women in reel formation) |
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OTHER RITUAL DANCE VIDEOS
| Forty Minutes with the Seven Champions Molly Dancers
Filmed by Philip Bone in England between 1985 and 1987 |
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| Team: | Seven Champions Molly Dancers | |
| Location: | several locations including the Sidmouth Festival | |
| Dances: | Three/Four/Five/Six Reel; Inertia Reel; 5 Hand Reel; U Turns; Mornington Crescent; Birds a Breeding; Russell Wortley's Maggot; 5 Hand Reel; Special Molly; Jig; The Eddie Upton Upon Seven Champions Stick Dance (at Sidmouth); Inertia Reel (at Sidmouth) | |
| Morris Dancing in England 1994
Filmed by Geoff Hughes |
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| Team: | The Rumworth Morris of Bolton (a revival Northwest team) | |
| Location: | not specified | |
| Dances: | Performance footage of a variety of Morris traditions including Northwest, Cotswold (Bampton), and the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, plus a Lancashire solo clog routine | |
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