The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #110155   Message #2309887
Posted By: TheSnail
08-Apr-08 - 06:19 AM
Thread Name: An ASBO for Morris Dancing?
Subject: RE: An ASBO for Morris Dancing?
No, No. Diane is right. At the Seventh Conference of the International Folk Music Council Held at Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1954, Enid Abayes presented a paper entitled Definition of Morris Dancing in which they were clearly defined as wavers.

Morris sides all over the Cotswolds were enormously grateful. They'd been wondering what to call them for hundreds of years.

One or two villages that refused to comply were told that what they were doing was clearly not Morris Dancing.