Date/Time
Saturday 3 May 2025 - Friday 9 May 2025
11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Categories Dance
Book here now: £15 full price • £10 or £7 if you prefer – please pay what you can*
We always have three prices – pay less and come to more things 🙂
A workshop with Dartmoor-based Morris dancers centred on dance as protest.
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: https://fieldsystem.co.uk/
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* We usually have three ticket prices – please pay what you can. If you can pay the full price, that’s great. If choosing a cheaper ticket allows you to come to more things, then please do! Ticket receipts are split between the artists (it’s usually their livelihood!) and the arts centre (keeps the place going). Except on the rare occasions when we have a sellout gig on our hands, it’s always better to have someone here in the audience than an empty seat, so genuinely, please pay whatever you can.