Aelfgythe

Ladies Border Morris Team

Taking the name from which Alvechurch derived, Aelfgythe are a ladies border morris side who dance with sticks and the traditional black faces.

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Icknield Way Morris Men

Icknield Way Morris Men are a nationally known side that perform at festivals, weddings, parties and shows all over the country, but mainly in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire.

Mr Baker's Dozen is a traditional English dance side from the Isle of Wight.

Mr Baker's Dozen meandered into existence some time in the late nineties, brainchild of its founder and perpetual Squire, Mr Baker himself. From the start, its mission statement was to do all those things that the other dance sides on the island didn't do. (Because they have more sense?) The Men of Wight do Cotswold; the Oyster Girls and Wight Bells do North-west; The Island Cloggies do cloggy things. So Mr Baker's Dozen is there to step in the breach and handle everything else.

Street dancing? Yup, we do it. Molly dancing? Yup, we do it (though it kills our legs.) Border? Check! Playford? Of course! Country dancing? Yes. We even perform a sheet dance, a portable Maypole dance, and a drinking dance.

Mr Baker's Dozen

Ducklington Morris

We are a mixed-sex Morris dancing side from the village of Ducklington, in West Oxfordshire. Ducklington has its own village tradition of Morris dancing but the original Ducklington side died out around about the turn of the twentieth century, and the current side was revived in the early nineteen-eighties. The style of our dances is based on our interpretation of the Ducklington tradition, although we have added some dances of our own to those recorded, often by adapting the sequences of other, related traditions' dances to our own figures and style.

The Oyster Girls

The Oyster Girls is a ladies' Morris dance side from the Isle of Wight.

The side has been dancing for over twenty years, though with much change of personnel over the years. The very first dance that the group learned was to the tune "The Oyster Girl", hence the name.

The Oyster Girls dance in the north-west tradition of Morris dancing, and wear clogs while dancing. Many of our dances originate from the north-west of England (or "the mainland", as we call it), but others we have made up ourselves in a similar style. We call it the Isle of Wight tradition, and it is very very old, dating all the way back to the last Millennium! Some of our dancers are even older... Watch the video

The Wight Bells

The Wight Bells are a ladies morris side based on the Isle of Wight who dance in the North West tradition.

Our roots began in 1998 and we started dancing out in May 1999.

We practice dancing during the winter months in Newport, the county town of the Isle of Wight, on a Thursday night. Throughout the summer we dance out every week at various locations and events on the Island. Our dances are named after some of these local places.

The Men of Wight

The Men of Wight Morris Men are a team (or side) of Morris Men, who live and dance on the Isle of Wight. The side was formed in 1970, and has been dancing solidly ever since. The dances we do come mostly from the Cotswolds, though there are a few from elsewhere in the country, and we have even been known to do the odd bit of sword dancing. We perform on Thursday evenings from May to September, normally at one pub at 8:00 pm and another at 9:00, and at the occasional weekend do. From October to April we practice indoors instead. Click on the image for more information.