Following a winter of hard work we began to dance in public one cold wet day the next spring. Since then our small but dedicated team has danced in all weathers, and is now in its twenty-seventh season.
The dances in our present repertoire are from the traditions danced in the Cotswold villages of Adderbury, Bledington and Leafield (Fieldtown), some stick dances, some hanky dances.
Many people express surprise at seeing women Morris dancers. In fact, this is not as untraditional as many people believe, there are many instances of women dancing with men, to make up a team, and of whole teams of women dancing alongside men’s teams, and being accepted by them, since at least 1679.
Towards the end of the last century women did much of the collecting of material, the dances and traditions and teaching of the new generation of dancers.