A north west morris dance

[watervole]

“CORFE MULLEN”

Corfe Mullen is old English for ‘the mill in the gap’.

Many of the figures in this dance are inspired by the movement of mill machinery: the water wheel rotating, the cogs interacting, the movement of mill stones turning against each other.  (I originally named the figures with names like ‘cogs’ but eventually decided that

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Morris/Mumming Workshop

[sweetheartwhale]

Consider yourself on call for Redemption 11. There is always a lot of interest in the folklore related panels and the Hafla, as we've seen, which is partly Arabic folk dance/baladi, has become a fixture. I'll run the choices by the committee once we have a list but personally I'd say we could maybe have something like "traditional folk dances and plays" under one roof. Could you bring an introduction to both Morris and Mumming into one 2 hour workshop or would they need separating?. A bit of history,say and quite a lot of dance. I've done Morris workshops at Days of Dance in Saltaire and they were *very* popular with dancers from other fields.My tribal teacher ( Chris Ogden of Samara Dance and 400 roses- google her!)has done tribal dance routines based on Morris .And I saw an article in the Mail today, BTW about an upcoming film on Morris dancing - a sort of dance documentary. The director has found that, contrary to expectations/popular belief, a lot of younger people were interested in the dance.

Hm. Mumming costumes in the chaos costuming and a mummer's play in the cabaret.*That'd* be interesting.

( NB: You didnt think you'd escape now you werent Chair did you? [evil laugh which I'll have to practice now...]

Re: Morris/Mumming Workshop

[watervole]

Mumming and morris (with the possible exception of sword dances) have very different roots. Not really good to combine in one session.

Mumming costumes in chaos makes sense, but I can't decide whether the actual play would work better on stage or in the bar...

I may do some of this at Odyssey, but I'm sure Redemption can get something too. There's a lot of material to use!

(there's an outside chance I'm in the crowd scenes in that movie - I was there for part of the shooting and I was in costume...)