The Maids of Clifton at the Plough, Hickling

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The Maids in action!

Background music: French tunes used for the Horbury Polka

Traditional and original garland, stick and hanky dances performed at your event in and around the Nottingham area, for further information on bookings or how to join us: mjm@mmarwick.freeserve.co.uk

New season started Thursday 31^st August 2006 with weekly practices each Thursday from 8.00pm - 9.30pm at Rushcliffe Leisure Centre, Boundary Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham

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What do we do...?

Together with some original dances, we perform traditional Morris dances, many of which originated in the North-West of England and were danced in clogs by the girls who worked in the Lancashire cotton mills in the mid-Nineteenth Century.

The dances are generally performed in a set with eight dancers, to the accompaniment of traditional tunes. Sticks, hankies or garlands are used in the performance, and the dancers wear leather clogs with wooden soles, and dance to best effect on a hard surface.

At most events, we would perform for two sets of approximately twenty minutes each for a small fee. The team takes only basic travelling expenses from this fee, making donations to favourite charities at the end of the dance season.

Click on the clog to visit the Morris and Clog Gallery of local teams

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