Nice sentiments, Neovo. Sometimes I feel it's a shame that the our varied forms of dance all got filed under the banner of "Morris" because it has led to "rules" which may (emphasise "may") apply to one form of morris being forced on another one to which has no link whatsoever and hence no relevance. I also tend to suspect that the "men only" dictate that the Ring championed had more to do with the attitudes and preferences at the time that Cecil Sharp was around collecting the dances and reviving them with teams of university students than true "tradition". But that's just my gut feeling.
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