Join us!

Our apporach is fun and partication over perfection (though well take it when /if it comes). You don’t need experience as we teach the routines.

Join when like but in our ability to teach new stuff is limited with that being prime dance out time but we are happy for people to come along and support/ expecience the mayhem and see if they like it. Several memeber have done this and hit things while we dance (I mean percussion things). In the autumn we are better placed to teach.

 

We are happy to add to our merry band of musicians. Do you play an instrument? Fiddle, melodeon, guitar, trombone, spoons? Can you play for a jolly group of dancers who try not to take themselves too seriously? We’d love to hear from you and we can offer you a warm welcome and maybe even a coffee and biscuit.

You don’t need to be competent at the tunes and can learn as you go but if your profecient that’s great too. We do run some introductory lessons from time to time and we have sheet music available. See the kit page for some photos.

Dancers and musicians do pay subs of £40 a year. We adjust the price based on what we have in our coffers (it was free recently for a year). It mostly covers expenses (insurance, practice venue hire, equipement etc ) and we maintaine a small float. You can try for  free before deciding to commit to this lunacy. 

We pay our own transport, accomidation, instument and kit costs. Most kit is fairly cheap except for clogs. We have a small stock of clogs and would usually want  £20 ish contrinution for them. If you’re unlucky and don’t find a pair to fit a hand made pair can cost £160 plus and mean 2 trips up north. You could alternatively be lucky get some of ebay or simlair. We do not insist on people having clogs to dance out.

We mostly practice Sunday mornings, 11am – 1pm with a coffee break at 12, at the Roman Circus Centre in Colchester from October until April. On nice summer day we may practice ouside FirstSite CO1 1JH. Ocassionally near the Tesco Express on Crouch Street CO3 3HH (can be cooler, cheaper and lets us wear clogs!).

ROMAN CIRCUS HOUSE, Roman Circus walk(off Butt Road), Colchester, Essex. CO2 7BJ

If we dance out on the Saturday we rarely practice on the Sunday.

We are member of the two of the main three morris organisation Morris Federation and Open Morris.