Dance

Here are some first categories. They may well change!

Dance Research

• Dance Bibliography. Includes books, articles,academic studies, and links to notable researchers' websites where appropriate

Social, Ceilidh and Barn Dance

• Dance Publishers
• Historical Resources
• 17th Century Dances
• 18th Century Dances
• 19th Century Dances
• 20th Century Dances
• Dancing in a new Millenium

Morris and Sword Dance

What is Morris Dancing? One of the leading researchers in the Morris dance field was Roy Dommett[1] and a good starting point for anyone interested in the subject are his notes used as the basis for a lecture given at Scarborough 1999 and published here on a site run by Nigel Sparkes.

• The Morris Ring [2]

• The Morris Federation [3]

• Open Morris [4]

• A short explanation of the politics that led to the past differences between the above three organisations (now mostly healed) [5]

• Looking for a team near you? Using Sidefinder [6], or Morris Dancing Wiki [7], or Jeff Bigler's Wiki [8]. There are others.

• South Midland Morris

• Cotswold Morris

• Border Morris

• North West Morris

• Molly

• Carnival Morris

• Garland

• Longsword

• Rapper

• The Esperance Morris Book Volume 1 [9] The Esperance Morris Book Volume 2 [10]. Includes tunes. These two volumes were created by Mary Neal and published in 1910. They are freely available in various formats. The description reads: pt 1. A manual of morris dances, folk-songs and singing games.--pt. 2. Morris dances, country dances, sword dances and sea shanties. Notes and steps written by C. Carey; music collected and arranged by G. Toye and C. Carey

• The Morris book : with a description of dances as performed by the Morris men of England (1912-) [11],Sharp, Cecil J. (Cecil James), 1859-1924 with MacIlwaine, Herbert C

Step/Clog dance

• Lakeland
• Lancashire
• Durham
• Clog Dance Research