Programme for 2011

Our programme for 2011 is ready! On Monday nights, from May - September (except August), we "dance out", in various locations around north Northamptonshire and South Leicestershire. We have some bookings on Saturdays as well, and are pleased to have the chance to support Macmillan collectors in Market Harborough on a couple of Saturdays. Our dancing out programme also includes a midsummer dance at Billesdon with Bakanalia and other sides, and this year includes an invitation to Bakanalia's 20th Anniversary tour in September.

Details of our programme are on this website.

Seaside Holidays for the Working Classes

And folk dancing for slum girls - two of the achievements of Mary Neal, and the title of an exhibition by Faye Claridge at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum.

Mary Neal ran a club for working women in London, as a place for factory women to go. Cecil Sharp introduced her to morris, and in the end, as I understand it, they fell out, as she believed that it was ok to modify the dances, he believed the dances should be danced in the same way as he had seen them danced when he wrote them down.

The exhibition includes photos of one of our members, and a video loop of him and another member, as the last members of the last Morris side in Rugby borough. Today there was a Morris themed event at the gallery, featuring us and Anker Morris Men from Nuneaton. Many thanks to Faye for asking us - here are some photos.