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May. 12th, 2008 10:49 pmFrom this article: http://tinyurl.com/44kh8j
"The thing about morris dancing is that everybody thinks they know what
it's all about, but nobody really does."
I suspect it's not all as "traditional teams dying out, new Fancy Teams with Scary Costumes are the new Morris" as they write in this article--makes a good story, but seems a bit extreme.
I also think the U.S. experience is different, partly because we have several people in the New England community getting teens involved, and the first wave of those teens are now in their twenties and dispersing far and wide, joining and creating teams in other places. And we do seem to attract older younger dancers as well (twenties and thirties and forties and beyond).
In theory, I think a GothBorderMorris team would be fun, but on the other hand, it sounds like they take themselves awfully seriously.
"The thing about morris dancing is that everybody thinks they know what
it's all about, but nobody really does."
I suspect it's not all as "traditional teams dying out, new Fancy Teams with Scary Costumes are the new Morris" as they write in this article--makes a good story, but seems a bit extreme.
I also think the U.S. experience is different, partly because we have several people in the New England community getting teens involved, and the first wave of those teens are now in their twenties and dispersing far and wide, joining and creating teams in other places. And we do seem to attract older younger dancers as well (twenties and thirties and forties and beyond).
In theory, I think a GothBorderMorris team would be fun, but on the other hand, it sounds like they take themselves awfully seriously.