Death Morris Dancers
About Death Morris:
Death Morris is a creative collective based in Exeter who use dance, music, costumes and more in response to their fears, curiosity and experiences of death and mortality. At its core, Death Morris is a response to a need for space and time to explore death and dying through a creative folk practice that exists outside mainstream ideas and expectations of creativity. The group meets fortnightly and members collaboratively contribute to running each session, allowing for the emergence of different perspectives and creative insight through the use of different media and practices. This results in a sprawling creative exploration of what it means to be mortal, distilled into moments, movements, sounds, garments, lyrics, invitations and more, that try and describe the indescribable feelings of being mortal and our relationship to death.
Death Morris embodies the idea that folk should be an active response to the present day experience of what it means to be alive; a reflection of what the current folk are thinking, making, doing, remembering and dreaming. We exist alongside contemporary re-interpretations of the tradition of Morris Dancing, and aim to open up a new Grove that allows for an evolution of this type of folk practice, that draws courage and inspiration from a tradition that continues to persist and respond to the world that we live in.
What to expect at the Death Morris workshop:
We will aim to run this workshop as if it were a usual Death Morris meet up. So expect, communal alter building, writing games, movement prompts and some gentle musical invitations. As well as, cups of herbal tea, snacks and chats.
All the activities in the workshop are optional and participants are welcome to opt in and out to suit their needs.
This workshop is limited to 10 people - please book your place at info@dyingwithgrace.co.uk