Sites

Mainly Morris Dancing - English
URL: http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/johnmaher/mmd/mainly.htm

Home pages for Morris sides.There are now over 363 other Morris Web sites scattered over this mad planet!

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Morris Dancing Dicsussiojn List: Sending Mail
URL: http://web.syr.edu/~hytelnet/mddl/posting.html

Discussion of all questions concerning Morris Dancing.

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What is Morris Dancing? - English
URL: http://www.antiquemart.com/middle_ages/morris.html

Morris dancing, an ancient English entertainment, is usually performed near some friendly pub to provide both an audience and a source of refreshment for the dancers.

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Morris Dancing - English
URL: http://www.ios.com/~jmoskin/morris/morris.html

Introduction, processionals, north west Morris, fools, jigs, musicians, set dances, sword locks, links to other Morris pages.

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Red Herring Morris - English
URL: http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/Red_Herring/

Morris is a seasonal ritual dance performed in England, and more recently in other countries as well. There are many proposed theories for the origin of the morris. These are, in general, mutually contradictory and based mostly on fantasy and misunderstanding. We will therefore refrain from embracing any particular theory on this site.

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Belfagan Women's Morris Dancers - English
URL: http://www.belfaganmorris.free-online.co.uk/

All-female morris site - they have been dancing together since 1981. They're based in Cockermouth, an attractive, lively market town just outside the Lake District National Park, their members, however, live all over northern Cumbria.

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Shave The Donkey - English
URL: http://www.thedonkey.org/

Internet newspaper about English and worldwide morris dancing - morris zine, and related topics that interest the capering classes (sword, rapper, jig, folklore, etc.).

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The Morris Ring - English
URL: http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/johnmaher/Ring/

The morris ring is the UK national and international association of men's morris dance clubs. Contains information about its members, officers, publications, activities such as meetings and instructionals, archives, mumming play and dancing activities.

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Martin's Morris Dancing Page - English
URL: http://www.martinwildig.com/mwmorris.htm

Morris dancing teams can be found all over Great Britain and many people would recognise this essentially English tradition. Some believe that the dances seen today are derived from the French moresque or the Spanish morisca dances of the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

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Morris Links - English
URL: http://web.syr.edu/~rsholmes/morris/rich/morris_links.html

A huge collection of morris-related web sites. Classification by topics and regions.

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Morris Dancing Discussion List - English
URL: http://web.syr.edu/~hytelnet/mddl/

Devoted to discussions, debates, and rants on all things morris including: Cotswold, Border, Garland, Northwest, etc.; sword dancing, both long sword and short sword (rapper); mumming, mumming plays and other ritual drama; Molly Dancing, Abbots Bromley, plough dancing; winter festivals such as Wassailing, Caroling and Twelfth Night; May Day celebrations, including May Poles and other rural festivities.

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The Morris Cafй - English
URL: http://themorriscafe.pagehere.com/

A meeting place for all those people who perform with morris sides, but not primarily as a dancer or musician. That doesn't mean dancers and musicians are unwelcome, just that this site plans to concentrate on other of morris performance.

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Directory Of Online Morris Dancers - English
URL: http://hrholmes.home.mindspring.com/morris/doomd/doomd.html

A voluntary directory of morris dancers, musicians, and aficionadoes on the Internet. Listings are based solely on information supplied by the listed people.

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Morris Dance & Sword Dance - English
URL: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/jcb/morris-teams.html

This page is a catalog of information about teams performing morris, sword, and other related English performance-oriented folk dance styles.

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