Yorkshire Folk Arts: Regional Directory: West Yorkshire Dance Teams

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West Yorkshire Dance Teams

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		Bradford Castleford Cleckheaton Halifax Haworth Huddersfield Keighley Kirklees Leeds Otley Pontefract Ripponden Saltaire Shipley Sowerby Bridge Wakefield Wharfedale Bradford Persephone: Bradford Women's Morris Women's North West Morris. Meets Tuesdays, weekly, 7.30 pm at Hunsworth Community Centre, near M62 junction 26 (male musicians welcome). Contact: Margaret Fowler Telephone: 01924 474203 Email: rose-hudson@supanet.com Castleford Castleford Sword Dancers Men's Longsword. Meets Tuesdays, weekly. Contact: Barry Green Telephone: 01977 510770 Email: jackie@townville5.freeserve.co.uk Cleckheaton Spen Valley Longsword Traditional Yorkshire Longsword. Meets Mondays at The Golden Fleece, Birkenshaw. Social emphasis, new members welcome. Contact: David Webster 168 Halifax Road, Batley, West Yorkshire WF17 7RE Telephone: 01924 402897 Top of page Halifax Annapurna Indian Dance Company Indian dance based mainly on the Bharata Natyam style. Performances regularly include storytellers and puppeteers. Workshops and educational projects available. Contact: Shantha Rao Telephone: 01422 365103 Email: info@annapurnadance.com Website: http://www.annapurnadance.com/ See also Workshops Noroc Step clog: mixed gender. All dances named for parts of Calderdale. Meets Wednesdays at the Grove Inn, Brierley. Contact: Sharon Kirk 111 Ravenstone Drive, Greetland, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX4 8DY Telephone: 01422 378345 Email: shazkrk@aol.com Haworth Oakworth Village Morris Men Men's Cotswold Morris. Meets Mondays, weekly at Oakworth Methodist Church. Contact: Nigel Yeo Telephone: 01484 650532 Email: nigel@you1.freeserve.co.uk Website: http://www.geocities.com/oakworth/ Huddersfield Kirkburton Rapier Dancers Men's Longsword. Meets alternate Wednesdays at the Carlton Club. Contact: Tom Stringfellow Telephone: 07870 435204 Email: secretary@kirkburtonrapier.co.uk Website: http://www.kirkburtonrapier.co.uk/ Slubbing Billy's Mixed North West Morris. Meets Tuesdays 8 - 10 pm, weekly (Sept-May) at Slaithwaite Community Centre. Contact: Alex Bywaters Telephone: 01484 682496 Email: a.bywaters@virgin.net Website: http://www.slubbingbillys.org.uk/ White Rose Morris Men Cotswold Morris. Meets Wednesdays, weekly, at Marsh Liberal Club, 8.00 pm. New members welcome. Contact: Richard Fowler 53 Lower Mill Bank Road, Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX6 3ED Telephone: 01422 823171 Top of page Keighley Fiddle & Feet Appalachian. Morris Federation members. Meets Tuesdays at East Malton Institute, East Malton, Keighley. Contact: David Carr 28 Rhodes Street, Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire BD18 3JJ Telephone: 01274 588276 Inclognito Traditional and innovative step-clogging and percussive dance. Available for ceilidh spots and workshops. Contact: Paul Hudson Telephone: 01282 868 040 Email: paul@clogfest.org Website: http://www.clogfest.org/inclognito/ Oakworth Mixed Morris Meets at Devonshire Street (Church with spire), Keighley. New dancers, musicians and bag carriers always welcome. Any age from 9 years up. Contact: Jennie Ellison 36 Manville Road, Keighley, West Yorkshire Telephone: 01535 664634 or 01535 611051 Kirklees Thieving Magpie Border morris; mainly women. Open Morris; a fairly new team currently recruiting dancers and musicians. Meets Wednesdays at Slaithwaite Methodist Church Hall. Contact: Helen Armitage Telephone:01274 878607 Email: armitagepartnership@phonecoop.coop Leeds Briggate Morris Women's North West Morris. Meets Mondays, Notre Dame Sixth Form College. Contact: Sharon Kirk Telephone: 01422 378345 or 0113 258 5557 Email: shazkirk@aol.com Website: http://home.clara.net/hairydog/briggate.html Bunnies from Hell Straight morris with a smile. Yorkshire based itinerant group - 35 members from all over the country . Contact: Jim Clarke Red Worms, Weaverthorpe, Malton, North Yorkshire YO17 8PQ Telephone: 01944 738422 Damhsa Traditional Irish dance and music show. "Riverdance" routines with harp, fiddle, flute, accordion, banjo, bouzouki, bodhran and singers. World class dancers and musicians. BBC and HRH performances. Available internationally. Contact: Chris Maguire 30 Charlestown, Ackworth, nr Pontefract, West Yorkshire WF7 7DU Telephone: 01977 614409 Email: Ceilihouse5758@aol.com Website: http://www.damhsa.co.uk/ Leeds Morris Men Men's Cotswold Morris. Meets Thursdays, Notre Dame Sixth Form College. Contact: Moss Ambrose Telephone: 0113 278 1202 Email: info@leedsmorris.org.uk Website: http://www.leedsmorris.org.uk/index.html Top of page Otley Buttercross Belles North West Morris. 22 dancers and 5 musicians. Green embroidered smocks over white dress. Straw Hat. Dances with bobbins, slings, hoops and spindles. Have performed throughout the north and also Normany & Switzerland. Contact: Louise Wilson 29 Throstle Nest Close, Otley, West Yorkshire Telephone: 01943 461298 Email: wilsons.rocklands@btinternet.com Website: http://www.buttercrossbelles.org.uk/ Flash Company Meets on Tuesdays at the Labour Club, Otley. "Trad dance untrad tunes". Contact: Steve Fairholm Croft House, Station Road, Otley, West Yorkshire LS21 3HX Telephone: 01943 467189 (home) 01943 464858 (office). Email: steve@otley-folkfest.demon.co.uk Website: http://www.flashco.net/ Kitchen Taps Women's Appalachian Step; would welcome good male dancers. Meets every third Saturday. Contact: Toni Johnston Telephone: 01943 467606 Email: info@kitchentaps.org.uk Website: http://www.kitchentaps.org.uk/ Wharfedale Wayzgoose Mixed Border Morris. Meets 8.30 - 10.00 pm Tuesdays, weekly at the Wesley Hall, Walkergate. Newcomers welcome. Contact: Stewart Ellinson Telephone: 07946 384248 Email: squire@wharfedale-wayzgoose.co.uk Contact: Malcolm Hills Telephone: 07918 611614 Email: bagman@wharfedale-wayzgoose.co.uk Website: http://www.wharfedale-wayzgoose.co.uk/ Pontefract T'Gradely Lasses Women's Morris, individual style. Meets Tuesdays, weekly at Micklegate Methodist Church Hall. Contact: Sonia Atkin Telephone: 01977 709992 Email: sonia@atkinfam.freeserve.co.uk Top of page Ripponden Ryburn Longsword Traditional and new Yorkshire Longsword dances. Meets Sundays 5 p.m. at 103 Oldham Road, Ripponden. Mixed team, all ages; new members welcome. Contact: Sue Coe 103 Oldham Road, Ripponden, West Yorks HX6 4EB Telephone: 01422 822569 Email: suecoe@backshift.demon.co.uk Website: http://www.ryburn3step.org.uk/longsword.htm Sharpe Sword Women's Rapper Team. Meets Sundays 12 noon at 103 Oldham Road, Ripponden. Contact: Christine Hamilton Telephone: 01535 642551 Email: christine@hamilton467.freeserve.co.uk Saltaire Clogaire Step clog routines from trad and not-so-trad sources. Meets Mondays at Victoria Hall, Saltaire. Mixed team, all ages; new members welcome. Emphasis on fun. Contact: Barbara Binless 5 Norfolk Mount, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS7 4PU Telephone: 0113 2694764 Email: clogaire@binless.co.uk Website: http://www.clogaire.binless.co.uk/ Top of page Shipley Rainbow Morris Mixed North West Morris. Meets Mondays, weekly at Shipley Resource Centre. Contact: Kay Sutcliffe Telephone: 01274 588140 Email: kaysutcliffe@hotmail.com Sowerby Bridge St Aidans Rapper Mixed Rapper. Meets Fridays, fortnightly at the Long Chimney Inn, Sowerby Bridge. Contact: Tom Stringfellow Telephone: 07870 435204 Email: rushbearing@hotmail.com Sowerby Bridge Morris Meets 1st & 3rd Thursdays of the month. Contact: Andrew and Liz Titley 6 Spring View, Luddenden Foot, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX2 6EX Telephone: 01422 883867 Email: lizandrew.titley@tesco.net Wakefield Rhubarb Tarts Mixed Molly. New dancers welcome. Meets Sundays, from September to late Spring. Contact: Liz Wild Telephone: 07816 085494 Email: info@wildfolk.co.uk Website: http://www.wildfolk.co.uk/ Wakefield Morris Dancers Mixed North West Morris. Meets Mondays, weekly at the Methodist Hall, Horbury. Contact: Megan Bradshaw Telephone: 01924 278750 Email: meg@megbrad.demon.co.uk Website: http://www.wakefieldmorris.com/ Wharfedale Great Yorkshire Morris Men's Cotswold, Longsword, Border and Rapper. Meets alternate Wednesdays, 8 - 10 pm at Pool Memorial Hall, Pool in Wharfedale. Contact: Bob Carter Brookside Cottage, Forest Moor Road, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire HG5 8JY Telephone: 01423 863433 Email: bjcarter@ntlworld.com
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