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Where to see us dancing out and about this season

Here’s where you can find us dancing next:

Programme 2023 

This is our anticipated programme, please check our webpage or other social media for full details of any event.

Events

Saturday 22nd April Guests of Dacre Morris for Beating the Bounds/St George’s Day,

Saturday 6th May Coronation Bank Holiday, 

Saturday 20th May Westminster Morris Dancers Day of Dance

Wednesday Evening Tours

3rd May Green Park practice plus pub,TBC

10th May Fitzrovia

24th May Clerkenwell 

7th June Primrose Hill

14th June City of London

21st June Euston

28th June Belgravia

5th July Paddington/Tyburnia tour

12th July Pimlico

19th July Sloane Square

We normally practice through the winter months, and our dance season usually starts off on our Day of Dance in May.  We can be found on various tours of different parts of London on some summer nights, and we also go on weekend tours around bits of the country that we like.

Join in – “just the right amount of daft”

wmm_groupMorris dancing is a great way to learn a new skill, get a bit of exercise, meet some interesting people, as well as learning about England’s culture and history.  It also gets you out & about around London, and to far-flung villages & towns across the country that you wouldn’t normally think of visiting.

Women are welcome. We are pleased to say that there have been female dancers in the team since 2018 and we would love to welcome more.

Westminster Morris are always looking for new dancers (and musicians!) to join the team – if you’ve danced in the past and fancy getting back into it, or have just seen dancing somewhere and would like to give it a try (it’s not necessarily as difficult as it looks) then why not use the form below to get in touch with us, and we can get you along to practice to get started!

We practice at our hall (in Westminster) from September through to May, on Wednesday nights (except for over Christmas/New Year).  No dancing experience required.

Westminster DoD 2023, photo by Lewis Elliott

Westminster Morris

unicorn500Proudly carrying on the English tradition of Morris Dancing in the heart of London – Westminster Morris are a morris team, with a history going back to 1952 (although morris dancing itself is much, much older than that).

We perform dances from a number of the Cotswold village traditions, including Longborough, Fieldtown, Headington Quarry, Sherborne, Bampton, Ilmington, Adderbury, and Badby.  Each dance has its distinctive features, as well as sharing similarities & structural elements with other dances.

The group is a diverse mix of ages, genders, backgrounds and – latterly – nationalities: we’ve got English mechanics, Scots bus conductors, American IT guys, Australian whisky experts, engravers, salesmen, and all sorts besides.  It’s an eclectic group who all share the common interest of performing for audiences around the country and sharing the fellowship of the morris.

Guardian: Hankies at the ready

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Following the press release by The Morris Ring that morris was in danger of becoming extinct, our foreman David Seaborne was invited in to The Guardian office to talk to them a little about morris dancing:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/jan/07/morris-dancing-folk

And also give a little demonstration of some of the moves:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/gallery/2009/jan/07/how-to-morris-dance

Time Out Magazine website

Headlining the “Around Town” section of the Time Out London website for our 2008 Day of Dance.
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