Dance

Category Editor - Keith Chandler

Here are some first categories. They may well change!

Social, Ceilidh and Barn Dance

History

• Dancing Masters
• Dance Publishers
• Historical Resources
• The Social Dance Movement
• The Ceilidh Movement

Dances

• 17th Century Dances
• 18th Century Dances
• 19th Century Dances
• 20th Century Dances
• Dancing in a new Millenium

Morris Dancing

What is Morris Dancing? One of the leading researchers in the Morris dance field is Roy Dommett 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.

• South Midland Morris

• Cotswold Morris

• Border Morris

• North West Morris

• Molly

• Carnival Morris

• Garland

• The Esperance Morris Book Volume 1 [1] The Esperance Morris Book Volume 2 [2]. 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-) [3],Sharp, Cecil J. (Cecil James), 1859-1924 with MacIlwaine, Herbert C

Sword Dancing

• Longsword

• Rapper

Step/Clog dance

• Lakeland
• Lancashire
• Durham
• Clog Dance Research

Dance Research

• Dance Bibliography