And More Besides
One of Ditchling Morris main aims are to promote our cultural heritage otherwise it will die and fade away - hence we are involved in many projects worldwide. We are members of SEFAN, (South East Folk Arts Network), our members provide school workshops and tutor schools in traditional and social dance and help run the annual primary schools dance festival in Plumpton, East Sussex, we provide workshops for venture scouts, beavers, cubs, brownies, we twin with overseas folk dance teams in Dieppe - Les Poletais, and De Iesselschotsers in Steenderen near Arnhem, Holland.
During 2003, one of our members, who was then the President of the Morris Federation worked with the Morris Ring Squire, Open Morris Chair and EFDSS in gaining an exemption from licensing during the passage of the Licensing Bill through the Commons and The House of Lords.
International activities include working with multinational dance groups in Greece, Lithuania, Bulgaria and UK in particular University of Hertfordshire and EFDSS to develop a web-based teaching platform covering traditional dance, called OpenDance. This enables other nationalities to learn about our traditional dances and likewise our selves learning about the national dances of Europe.
