Birdseye

I am not clear anymore, if I ever was, what your point is.

On the one hand you talk of a "right" to dance, but do not say where this right is enshrined; then you talk of performance at clubs (which, presumably can have whatever criteria they like), of being able to dance at ceilidhs, and why not they pay to do so, then you talk about morris as entertainment.

It really is quite simple. Morris dance sides do not have to have as members anyone they don't want. We were a mens side that danced with womens sides, with mixed sides, danced individiually with mixed sides, were members of the Ring and were vociferous in that organisation about the need for change. We were very selective as to which men we allowed to join because we had a philosphy about performance that we did not want to compromise by letting in those who were not or could not become good enough to meet our standards.