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What made you join the “Morris”? (3)
Mate dragged me along then second week cleared off.
This happens so often, group of lads see us dance, one is all for it the rest could take it or leave it.
Anyway he will persuade his palls to come along with him and have a go. Quite often the ringleader never even makes it to the first night. Even if he does then after one session he's never seen again.
No matter the rest keep going and find to their surprise that they have found a great group of guys that really know how to enjoy themselves.
They never look back.Labels: dancing, join, learn, morris
posted on 31.5.08 by John
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What made you join the “Morris”? (2)
Saw them on holiday wife set me up.
Tom was on holiday with his wife and some friends, they came across some morris men dancing and having fun. The wives took a bit of a shine to these virile (?) young men and made a few comments that the husbands thought needed a response.
So on the quiet they spoke to one of the dancers and asked if there was a group near to where they lived. Well of course there was. Bit like ants, there everywhere.
A few weeks later they went along, mainly to stir up a response from their wives, but to their surprise they really enjoyed themselves and went back the following week and the week after.
Not all of them stayed the course but one did and to this day his reply when told “not Morris again” is, well you've only yourself to blame!Labels: dancing, join, learn, morris
posted on 26.5.08 by John
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What made you join the “Morris”?
Ask a hundred morris men and you will get 100 different answers. In the series that follows I will try and give you a flavour of what a dozen or so have said to me over the years.
You will be amazed at some of them, others will strike a chord with you. Yep, the very reasons you think you could or could not become a morris dancer are in these very articles!
I have done morris dancing all over the world, far flung places like Latvia and Mongolia to dear old Portslade, but travel was not why I joined, that was the last thing on my mind. I was still in my early 20's and single.
I was playing darts with some of my mates at the Juggs Arms, Kingston (near Lewes) when this noisy rabble in strange costumes muscled up to the bar to buy pints of ale. They then went outside and stared dancing, bit like a swipe from a tango. Anyway we dragged ourselves outside and watched for a while then went back inside. But there was no getting away from them, they finished dancing and came inside till closing time. There they sat drinking, singing, playing tunes and having a rare old time.
Sometime during the evening they gave us a programme of where they were for the rest of the year, well the pub for the next week was one we hadn't been to so we went along, the same the following week. So by the end of the summer we were persuaded to join the beginners practice workshop and the rest as they say is history. How long have I been dancing? Over 40 years!
Some other less mundane stories follow;Labels: dancing, join, learn, morris
posted on 23.5.08 by John
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