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06 Apr 06 - 06:45 AM (#1711731) Subject: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: GUEST,Topsie The Culture Show, tonight, 6 April, 7.0 and 11.20 - Verity Sharp and the "morris dancing revival"! |
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06 Apr 06 - 08:13 AM (#1711772) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: manitas_at_work Verity Sharp? Any relation? |
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06 Apr 06 - 09:03 AM (#1711822) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: GUEST, Topsie No connection mentioned here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/presenters/verity_sharp.shtml |
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06 Apr 06 - 10:27 AM (#1711863) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: GUEST,JohnB It's on BBC 2 Television as mentioned here JohnB |
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06 Apr 06 - 10:52 AM (#1711889) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: GUEST,Sue Cain Sounds good. It mentions 'Verity Sharp joins them [Morris Offspring] to see if they can breathe new life into this ancient pastime.' It's a great idea & hopefully more sides are still keeping the tradition alive while, at the same time, having a bit of a play with it & helping it to evolve. I dance with Boggarts Breakfast Border Morris in Sheffield & on Friday 14th April (about 10pm onwards) we'll be starting off outside Plug night club where they host the Planet Zogg techno party & then we'll be taking to the dance floor to introduce the new concept of Techno Morris. We have often taken Morris dancing to places you wouldn't normally expect to find it such as a protest sites & the old Classic Rock Bar in Sheffield. It's amazing how much people loved it & the bikers at CRB would always join in. They even asked us back time & time again, advertised us on the radio & let us practice in one of the bars. I think the only place where people have been slightly reserved was Walkabout - the Australian theme bar - but we only stayed there for a short time & we were dancing in decorated bras to raise money for breast cancer research at the time so I'm not surprised, really. |
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06 Apr 06 - 01:18 PM (#1711972) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: McGrath of Harlow 'Verity Sharp joins them to see if they can breathe new life into this ancient pastime.' That sounds a bit ominous to me. "Breathe new life" or "kiss of death"? |
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06 Apr 06 - 01:23 PM (#1711975) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: greg stephens "Breathing new life" is noramlly much the samew as "making it relevant to young people today". ie a load of journalistic bollocks. |
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06 Apr 06 - 02:59 PM (#1712055) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: Cats Having just seen the show, I can't agree that it's 'a load of journalistic bollocks'. I'd love to go and see it. These young people are doing what we should be doing, continuing the tradition. If it takes a 'show' to make people realise just what we have got, then so be it. If it makes it relevant to them, then so be it. After all, they did say everything they are doing is morris and if it's a dance for 6 done by 12, so what? Let's not sit back and be prima donnas, let the tradition live. It often takes something like this to make people go back to their roots and find the 'real thing'. Well done Morris Offspring. |
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06 Apr 06 - 03:09 PM (#1712062) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: Les in Chorlton What? What? Changing bits of morris? People will be painting their faces any colour they like, pinching tunes and making up dances next. |
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07 Apr 06 - 05:15 AM (#1712444) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: Selchie - (RH) I saw the show last Monday in Worcester, Cats, it was excellent, different & exciting. Morris Offspring's energy depicts the dancing in a very lively, youthful light & they're bringing Morris to the notice of the general public in a positive way. The Culture Show covered the project in a sympathetic & positive way, (although some of the "more mature" sides I know will not quite match up to what's been portrayed by those young people ~ Never mind lads, keep at it, the more the merrier). :-) Les ~ "People will be painting their faces any colour they like, pinching tunes and making up dances next" ~ Heaven forbid! :-) Keep dancing, Rosie |
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07 Apr 06 - 06:14 AM (#1712465) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: McGrath of Harlow I wasn't talking about the dancing, or the actual show, which I didn't see - I was expressing my unease about that write up about "see if they can breathe new life into this ancient pastime", which is the kind kof talk that is generally associated with what greg eloquently refers to as "a load of journalistic bollocks." If it wasn't actually like that, and it sounds as if it wasn't, great. The various Morris traditions have been developing and diversifying in all kinds of remarkable and encouraging ways over the past century, and that is still going on. But the pointy is, it is a tradition, not just a playground for parachuted-in trendies, which is what those words seemed to imply. |
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07 Apr 06 - 06:19 AM (#1712469) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: Paco Rabanne How can you possibly comment on something you didn't see McGrath? I saw it, and for once the BBC didn't take the piss. |
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07 Apr 06 - 07:37 AM (#1712494) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: GUEST,SQUEEZEBOXHP the older dancers dance on 10 pints ? is this a team of slackers! also Beeb 2 moved Whitby abbey into Northumbria for the quick and observant |
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07 Apr 06 - 07:44 AM (#1712500) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: GUEST Missed it, had to watch a DVD to appease the 'her indoors' having a sulk because we dont 'enjoy enough nice* films together'. [* i.e. bloody vapid "chic flicks" !] Does culture show get repeated on any other days ? or any other BBC channels ? |
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07 Apr 06 - 03:19 PM (#1712705) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: Les in Chorlton I saw bits of it and was quite taken by the drama of it. I think that is what is sometimes (often?) missing from current Morris - a sense of drama or oddness or something. Morris isn't just people doing jolly country dancing. Although most of us have doubts about its roots etc. it can be exciting and dramatic and to my own surprise I felt that watching the programme. And just because I won't let it lie ...... .... can those who black up, and offend a probable small minority, white up, green up, rainbow up and join a living vibrant tradition? |
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07 Apr 06 - 03:37 PM (#1712720) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: Santa If BBC2 did say that Whitby Abbey is in Northumbria, they were right. It's not in Northumberland. (Or, indeed, many other places.) |
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07 Apr 06 - 04:12 PM (#1712739) Subject: RE: UK BBC2 Morris dancing on Culture Show From: McGrath of Harlow I expressed disquiet about the publicity for the programme, not on the programme itself. I don't think I could have been clearer about that. |