PLYMOUTH MORRIS MEN NOW
We are members of the Morris Ring and dance mostly Cotswold tradition. During a "thin" period a few years ago we introduced the Plymouth tradition (four-man dances in the Cotswold style) to entertain the crowds while the full team arrived! The Plymouth tradition includes an eight-cutlass dance called "Shoelaces" in which each man strikes swords with every other sword in the set. The dance features on the Traditional Dance Competition video recorded at Sidmouth Festival in 1993. The dance is named after an incident involving a Magog lady ("the lovely Lynn" [conversation with May Littleton, 31 May 1997]) during an excellent weekend of drink, sorry dance, on the island of Jersey in May 1986.
DANCES
Adderbury
Bluebells : Postman's Knock : Shooting
Ascott-under-Wychwood
Balancy Straw : Black Joker : Country Gardens : Highland Mary : Mrs Casey : Constant Billy : Old Woman Tossed Up : Orange in Bloom : Valentines
Badby
Shooting
Bampton
Bonny Green : Highland Mary Rose : Tree/Banbury Bill
Bledington
William and Nancy
Border
Not For Joe : Upton stick dance
Bucknell
Queens Delight
Fieldtown
Balance the Straw
Headington
Bean Setting : Constant Billy : Trunkles : Rigs of Marlow
Lichfield
Ring of Bells : Sheriff`s Ride : Vandals of Hammerwich
Plymouth
Ol' Barbican : Jerry Grumpwood Jumping for Jogi
Plymouth (cutlass)
Foreman's Fancy : Shoelaces : Skirmish
