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MAYDAY Morris Workshop

Name: MAYDAY Morris Workshop
Start: 2025-05-03T10:45:00+01:00
Location: Ashburton Arts Centre

A workshop with Dartmoor-based Morris dancers centred on dance as protest.

0	ASHBURTON: Arts Centre
P	Saturday 3rd May, 2025
N	10:45am

Event information

In this workshop centred on dance as protest, members of MAYDAY Morris will share their history and ethos, and host a discussion on the importance of activism. You will discover how they bring positive energy to protest while bearing witness to loss, injustice, and inequality, using a medium that is the epitome of their common folk tradition.

They will be teaching everyone a few dance moves too, so perhaps you can set up your own rebel Morris side! All abilities welcome; wear whatever you are comfortable talking and dancing in.

MAYDAY Morris is a group of dancers and folk musicians from Dartmoor, Devon which has come together with a common cause. MAYDAY dances to drums, voice, flute, fiddle, guitar and any other instruments that are available. MAYDAY’s kit (costume), dancing and name communicate a rebellious pagan spirit alongside an honouring of our country’s workers and their traditions, whilst also signalling that we are in a state of social and environmental emergency.

This event is part of Summer is Ready! Field System’s Mayday Celebration run in collaboration with our neighbours, Field System gallery.

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