Cotswold Morris workshop
If you’ve done a bit of Cotswold dancing (or even if you haven’t), why not come along to this workshop and try something new? East Suffolk
Morris Men will be teaching the Ascott under Wychwood tradition, one that is
not very well known in this region.
Sharp, Tiddy, The Travelling Morrice and Dommett all collected dances from
Ascott, a small village north of Leafield in Evenlode Valley. But as Lionel
Bacon noted, “the information from these sources is not wholly consistent”!
Dommett revisited his notes in a series of instructionals back in the 1970s and
Coventry Morris Men reconstructed some of the dances. Bristol Morris Men looked
at them again in the 1980s and East Suffolk used their style as a basis when
they started to dance some Ascott. Since then, East Suffolk Morris Men have
changed some of the details again, and this interpretation will be the basis of
the workshop. In other words – Ascott via Coventry, Bristol and Ipswich!