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Thread #131893   Message #2979279
Posted By: Hamish
03-Sep-10 - 11:14 AM
Thread Name: Olympic Morris
Subject: RE: Olympic Morris
Well, I dunno. I feel there's a dichotomy here. It's the London Olympics - London bid for it and is the host, despite many of the venues being outside Greater London - and the competing nation is Great Britain. So why would Morris, more associated with the rest of England, be appropriate? Surely we'd need dances from all over Great Britain or from London? Knees Up Mother Brown and The Lambeth Walk, perhaps? Drawing on Morris seems to be a blurring of boundaries, serving neither the host city nor the host country. How do our Welsh and Scottish chums feel?