Flying Bark Morris Current Dance Repertoire Spring 2006
And that is what we call Morris Dancing
Cotswold Tradition Dances
Wheatley Tradition Sets:
• Rigs of Mallow (stick) for 4 or 6
• Constant Billy (stick) for 4 or 6
• Room for the Cuckoo (hanky) for 4 or 6
• Bobbing-a-Joe (stick) for 3 [devised by team 2000], 4 or 6 [traditional]
Wheatley Tradition Jigs:
• Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be? (hanky)
Other Cotswold Style Sets/Jigs (tradition):
• Shepherd's Hey (Adderbury hand clapping set for 3 [Trei] or 4)
• Lads a Buncham (Adderbury stick for 2)
• Barka Pipes (original to team, jig after Bampton)
• Princess Royal (Bampton hanky jig)
• Old Mother Oxford (Headington hanky jig)
• Fool's Jig (Bampton stick jig)
Original Devised Cotswold style Set Dances:
• Salty Dog, for Yule Log 2000 [Hanky set for 4]
Welsh Border Set Dances
• Upton Snodsbury (stick for 3)
• The Dilwyn Stick Dance (Dilwyn) (for even numbers 2+)
• Maiden's Delight Au Troi (Based on Brimfield, for 3, triangle formation)
• Morning Star (Stick dance, adapted by Bassett Street Hounds in 1990 from a Shropshire Bedlams stick dance) (for even numbers 2+)
• Requiem for Mr. Ed (original to team, written by Rich Holmes, based loosely on a dance "Poston"" from Orange Peel Morris) (long stick dance for 4)
• Border Billy (devised border, for 3 dancers)
Other
• "A Fine Red Coat," a seasonal Mummer's Play, performed at Yule time or Midsummer's Eve.