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	English Folk Dance Music Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was then being danced for recreation, at weekends for general common festivities, and often at fetes in aid of the parish Churches, a practise that upset the more strongly Protestant sectors of the community, who would have like to have seen it abolished.
		Morris dancing and maypoles became symbols of the more royalist/Anglo-Catholic/conservative end of the political and religious spectrum, and the custom had spread all over the southern half of England by the 1600s, south of a line roughly from the Ribble to the Humber.
		Morris is now danced over much of the world, not just in England and, although all Morris teams have their own dances and tunes done in their own particular way, the general form of the Morris is still instantly recognizable.
	www.englishfolkdance.org /cotshist.shtml (1882 words)

	Ishmael on Morris Dancing
		The Morris comprises a variety of forms of traditional ritual dances from England, but The Black Jokers specialize in Cotswold Morris, as was practiced in the villages of Bledington and Brackley in the English Midlands.
		Morris Dancing is one of the characteristic Folk Dances of England.
		Morris Teams on the Web, a public service maintained by Jeff Bigler of Middlesex Morris is the place to find the latest links, but here are some that I have had since the early days, when the number of Morris related WWW sites could be counted on the fingers of one hand.
	www.mit.edu:8001 /people/ijs/morris.html (572 words)

	Mark Morris Dance Company - Susan Reiter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Morris, very different from the extended silhouettes of the self-consciously beautiful male duet that Stanton Welch set to this movement in his ABT ballet "Clear." The Morris interpretation features short, square phrases of matter-of-fact movement, with some striking images interspersed-such as the sight of six dancers swaying with their arms crossed above their heads.
		Morris choreographed for White Oak Dance Project during its initial season, is a luminous, deceptively simple-looking work that makes its journey through Haydn's Concerto for Horn and Strings in D Major feel like a gentle glide through the water in a pristine natural setting.
		Morris must have had solid reasons (musical and logistical) for the way he shaped the program, and it did offer an intriguing development from a more public, outward-looking sensibility towards a more private, meditative, inward arena of mystery and reflection.
	www.danceviewtimes.com /2004/summer/09/morris.htm (1179 words)

	English Folk Dance Music Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cotswold Morris is not restricted to the geographical region of The Cotswolds.
		Dances are usually performed as theatre 'in the round' where the side are surrounded by spectators and it doesn't matter.
		If they have been with the side for any length of time most morris dancers know the order of sequences for all their dances anyway, but it is generally accepted that the 'correct' form of the dance on any particular occasion is what the caller calls.
	www.englishfolkdance.org /cotsmorr.shtml (2202 words)

	Earth Mysteries: Morris Dancing
		Morris dancing, in fact, has been claimed to be a remnant of a pre-Christian Celtic, or Druidic, fertility dance.
		Morris dancing also figures among the evidence in support of the claim that dancing formed part of the celebration of Celtic festivals.
		If Morris is a corruption of a similar-sounding word, it could equally well be "moorish" in reference to, at the time of Shakespeare, boggy land, and later used in connection with moorland or heathland.
	www.britannia.com /wonder/modance.html (892 words)

	StreetSwing's Dance History Archives - Morris / Moresque Dance Page - Main1
		In the beginning, the Morris dance was a pantomime of war, depicting the struggle of the Moors and Christianity and is one of the oldest English dances to date.
		In many English vicinities the dance is performed as a sword type dance utilizing fancy costumes, swords, sabers, sticks, military marching, leaping and opposing sides.
		The dance does not have any turns or patterns per say, and did not glide or sway and was not danced on toe but was very intricate in its movements, (which are many.) The >Mourisca was a big element of the first ballets, often called ">Spectacles" of that time.
	www.streetswing.com /histmain/z3moris.htm (1403 words)

	Types of Morris Dance
		Morris seems historically to have been a term used for any type of street performance related to the local style of dance - in Hampshire (as opposed to New Hampshire) it certainly once meant a Mummers' Play, which normally didn't have a dance with it at all.
		Virtually all morris performed in the UK is revived: the form had almost died out by 1899, when it was "discovered" by the folklorist Cecil Sharp, whose work was the catalyst that popularised the efforts of a number of other collectors such as Mary Neale, Maud Karpeles and Ella Leather.
		The term "Welsh Border Morris" was coined by Dr Chris Cawte to denote dances from the Welsh border counties of Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /prod/dialspace/town/avenue/pd49/morris/types.html (1076 words)

	the Mark Morris Dance Group
		Seeing Morris and Resto in "Foursome" didn't afford the analytical possibility inherent in seeing them both dance the same thing at the same time, as they did in the unison clogging of "Home," made in 1993 to music by Michelle Schocked and Rob Wasserman.
		Morris, of course, was the choreographer, and his performance was inflected with ownership -- with a little extra this, a little mordant that, a little ironic distance, and knowingness, and commentary.
		The dance starts out with some basic maneuvers to the "Gnossienes #1, #2, and #3" of Erik Satie, then veers into some folky flourishes to the "Seven Hungarian Dances" of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, which is a quick, strange musical trip.
	www.danceinsider.com /f2003/f0417_2.html (1075 words)

	Morris dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Morris dancing dates back to the 15th century, and some theories place its origin in Britain in the 14th century.
		According to anthropologist Margaret A. Murray, an old Morris dance tune, "Green Garters," was the traditional music for the processional dance to the Maypole on May morning.
		The May games and dances, which were the pagan festivals and fertility rites, were important to villages, especially in the 16th century, and were tolerated by the Church during the 17th century, but the Puritans abolished them.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/m/morris_dance.html (382 words)

	The Mark Morris Interview
		Morris: She was extremely, extremely important, in the generation of this art form she effected.
		Morris: I try to work in the language that applies to the dance I want to make up, you know so I would prefer not to be accused of having a technique.
		Morris: National public radio and television are in competition with lots of cable channels and media that wasn't around before when they were the arbiters of classical taste.
	www.sonic.net /~goblin/0morris.html (2480 words)

	Ballet-Dance Magazine - Mark Morris Dance Group
		Highlights were “Soirée Polka” for which Morris created something reminiscent of an American square dance for four couples, “Linger in Blissful Repose”, a quite beautiful adagio piece for three women, and “Katy Bell”, fast and fun for the whole ensemble.
		Where Morris is clever is in giving each dancer the chance to shine and the choreography for each song its own feeling, without ever losing the sense of whole.
		Morris says that the music was “hard to learn”, which is quite believable.
	www.ballet-dance.com /200511/articles/mmdg20051025.html (648 words)

	History of Square Dancing (Morris Dance)
		Morris Dances were danced by six men (remember, the women didn't count!) in two rows of three.
		But the English seem to have developed their own dance, and consequently ours, and the heart and soul of it is the great longways, containing as it does almost every conceivable square dance step and pattern.
		It was this "longways" dance that actually did make an alliance in the French court, and forget the strong link between the ballroom and village green, bringing forth the "contra" that in turn gave us so much of what we have today.
	www.eaasdc.de /history/shemorri.htm (1331 words)

	Moreton Bay Fig Morris
		We perform a type of dance that is collectively known as "morris".This form of dancing comes primarily from a region of England known as the Cotswolds.
		As a whole, morris dancing is characterized by a set of approximately six dancers (sometimes more, sometimes less) wearing bright clothing or "kit" and bells attached to their shins.
		Morris dance was banned when Oliver Cromwell came to power, but returned to its proper place in English life when Charles II restored the English monarchy.
	www.moretonbayfig.org (705 words)

	KQED Arts: Profile - Mark Morris
		Morris chose Delibes's work primarily for the score, but also for its libretto, which the choreographer found to be unusual in a classical ballet.
		Morris is known for his fresh approach to both modern dance and classical ballet, a reputation that has earned him the distinction of being one of America's youngest certified national treasures.
		Instead of having his dancers awe their audiences with a series of difficult moves, Morris tries to instill in his performers a sense of the meaning of the piece so that they may use their skills to express the narrative in ways that are both spontaneous and subtly nuanced.
	www.kqed.org /spark/artists-orgs/markmorris.jsp (678 words)

	Morris Dance - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Morris Dance, traditional English ceremonial dance for men, but also danced today by women.
		Morris, Mark (1956- ), American choreographer and dancer, considered one of the most gifted new choreographers in modern dance.
		Dance, patterned and rhythmic body movements, usually performed to music or percussion, that serve as a form of communication or expression.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Morris_Dance.html (125 words)

	Morris code: Mix it up
		The Mark Morris Dance Group brings four of the artist's famous dances to the Mesa Arts Center on Friday.
		It's part of the variety that is one of the hallmarks of Morris' art.
		Morris' dances sometimes require performers to drag themselves around on the floor, leaving trails of sweat.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/arts/articles/0419morrismain.html (532 words)

	Harvard Gazette: The Morris Dance
		Morris' company recently established a dance center across the street from the Brooklyn Academy of Music and is the only single-choreographer dance company to own and operate its own center.
		One of the first dance companies Morris belonged to was the Koleda Balkan Dance Ensemble, a semiprofessional group devoted to folk dancing.
		Morris said that in creating a dance he always starts with the music and that suggests dance movements to him.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/03.13/19-morris.html (1142 words)

	University of Florida Performing Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Mark Morris Dance Group celebrates 25 years of extraordinary modern dance and music on a national tour that takes it to the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, February 3, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.
		Morris served as director of dance for Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels (the national opera house of Belgium), co-founded the White Oak Dance Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov and is in demand as a ballet choreographer.
		In 1988, MMDG was invited to become the national dance company of Belgium and served as the resident company of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie.
	www.performingarts.ufl.edu /perf.mark_morris_dance.asp (442 words)

	Morris dance collecting before 1900
		The fool's dance, or a dance performed by persons equipped in the dresses appropriated to the fools, is very ancient, and originally, I apprehend, formed a part of the pageant belonging to the festival of fools.
		Sir John Hawkins (History of Music), observes that, with the memory of persons living, a saraband danced by a Moor constantly formed part of the entertainment at a puppet show; and this dance was always performed with the castanets.
		I shall not pretend to investigate the derivation of the word morris; though probably it might be found at home: it seems, however, to have been applied to the dance in modern times, and, I trust, long after the festival to which it originally belonged was done away and had sunk into oblivion.
	www.themorrisring.org /more/Strutt.html (788 words)

	Mark Morris Dance Company at Jacob's Pillow in Becket, Massachusetts.
		Morris choreographs his work by beginning with a piece of music, and creatiung movement from what he hears.
		Danced by Joe Bowie and Michelle Yard, this is a serious piece that is remarkable for many reasons, not least of which is the parity between the two performers.
		Morris doesn’t try to reconcile everything, which is both interesting and confusing to watchers.
	www.newberkshire.com /archive/dance/morris.html (676 words)

	Bloomington Quarry Morris Dancers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Morris dancing is a traditional village festival dance from England.
		The dances Bloomington Quarry Morris performs are from the Cotswold area of England, as well as some Midwest American dances.
		More information on morris dancing is available from the combined website of the british morris organizations, at http://www.morrisdancing.org/.
	www.bloomington.in.us /~morris (352 words)

	EARTH MYSTERIES: Morris Dancing
		Attempts to discover the origins of the dances performed have revealed a general connection with other ritual folkdances elsewhere in the world such as santiagos, moriscas, and matachinas of the Mediterranean and Latin America, and the calusari of Romania.
		The Stroud Morris Dancers in Stroud, Gloucestershire, for example, wear white trousers and shirts with red and green sashes (the colours of Stroud).
		A variant of Cotswold Morris is Border Morris, associated with the Welsh border counties, which have sides of four, or six, or eight men who darken their faces and wear 'rags' and dark trousers.
	witcombe.sbc.edu /earthmysteries/EMmorris.html (895 words)

	May Day Morris 2007
		Morris dancers throughout the west coast will gather together with their sticks, ribbons, bells, hankies, and baldrics, for music and dance in our annual May Day celebrations (this year Tuesday, May 1st, 2007).
		Morris dancing is a living tradition of English celebratory and ritual dance with live music, with origins shrouded in mystery and the mists of time.
		Indeed, dances of comparable form and dancers in similar costumes are found elsewhere in Europe and around the world, and may be thought to be part of the universal urge to influence and honor the unknowable forces which govern our lives.
	rgoldman.org /morris/mayday.htm (1548 words)

	CriticalDance.com - Review - Mark Morris Dance Group - Platee -
		Morris more than any other choreographer today, is uniquely able to successfully direct an opera because of his background and experience.
		Although they didn’t dance, the singers definitely moved well and their blocking was fresh and interesting and in the same style as the choreography.
		Maybe because Morris does not have an opera background he is not tied to the time worn standard blocking seen year after year on the world’s opera stages.
	www.criticaldance.com /reviews/2001/MarkMorris_20011006.html (711 words)

	Salon: Mark Morris
		Ever since founding his own company, the Mark Morris Dance Group, in 1980, the 40-year-old choreographer has been setting off alarms all around the world with dances exploring an extraordinary range of subjects: lust and childhood fears, cowboys and Tamil Indians, the archetypal suffering and purgation of myth, heartaches and Gershwin.
		The legendary dancer was performing with the White Oak Project, a group Morris and Baryshnikov formed in 1990 to encourage emerging choreographers and dancers.
		Morris was seated on the floor when I entered, simultaneously listening to British music hall tunes from the 1940s -- part of his endless, ongoing search for sources to inspire new pieces -- and stretching his long legs in limbering-up exercises.
	www.salon.com /weekly/interview960909.html (466 words)

	Voice Of Dance - Insights - Features
		Such, also, is the performing strength these days of the Mark Morris Dance Group, fulfilling the second week of its Cal Performances visit with a particularly daring mixed program, an evening of boundless riches.
		Morris spices the texture with an occasional descent to the floor, but the sense one derives here is of eavesdropping on a private moment.
		Morris epitomizes what is known as the human condition when Worden, back turned to us, resists the entreaties of Yard and Gregory Nuber, almost driving the pair into a frenzy.
	www.voiceofdance.com /Insights/insights.trans.col.cfm?LinkID=32500000000000181 (1023 words)

	Morris Dancer's Webring
		Morris Dancing is traditional folk dance in England.
		Bakanalia are a Border Morris Dancing Group from Leicester in the United Kingdom, comprised of both men and women, young and old and from all walks of life.
		Morris Dancing in the Channel Island of Jersey.
	u.webring.com /hub?ring=morris (499 words)

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