Following last summer's extraordinary collaboration with Maple Morris: MUST COME DOWN Morris Offspring with Gavin Davenport, Becky Price, Matthew Keegan-Phipps, Nancy Potts and Debs Newbold A joyful, energetic and unique celebration of the power and grace of English traditional dance. A reaffirmation that the tradition is alive and evolving. A exuberant spectacle of vitality and passionate dance wrapped in a cloak of beautiful music, stunning singing and heart-stopping stories. This colossal collaboration brings a new generation of outstanding young morris dancers into the spotlight. It follows last summer's spectacle, in which Offspring joined forces with their North American counterparts, Maple Morris, to create new works featuring 35 brilliant young dancers, a very special storyteller and a unique cast of musicians. Sunday 8th July, 3pm Library Theatre, Tudor Square, Sheffield. Tickets: www.pecsaetan.co.uk Saturday 14th July, 3.30pm Furness Tradition Festival, Coronation Hall, Ulverston. Tickets: www.furnesstradition.org.uk Sunday 15th July, 4pm Cecil Sharp House, London. Tickets: www.efdss.org Wednesday 8th August, 8pm Sidmouth Folk Week (Bulverton) Tickets: www.sidmouthfolkweek.co.uk "Morris Offspring… now this is something really special… the sheer grace and energy of these young dancers, with their stylish whites and subtle ribbons on their shoulders is quite startling." Colin Irwin, In Search of Albion "Morris Offspring put the mystery back into morris" Billy Bragg
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