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The text explains that dancers participate because they enjoy the activity and because audiences enjoy watching it, noting the widespread presence of teams, especially in summer. 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LIMITEDLETCHWORTH GARDEN CITYHERTFORDSHIRE\n\nThe First Squire of the Morris Ring wearing the traditionalForest of Dean type of Morris dancer's coat(Photo:Bill Cassie)  \nThe  \n# Morris and Sword Dancesof England\n\nbyArthur PeckRecorder of the Morris Ring  \n# What Morris Dancing is and is not\n\nMORRIS DANCING is not an antiquarianrevival or an attempt to resuscitate something that isdead and buried.It is as much alive and as mucha normal part of contemporary life as cricket or football,orany other such form of activity-although,fortunately,it hasno“professionals.”The men who dance the Morris do sobecause they enjoy dancing it(and also because they findthat others enjoy watching it).Morris dancers are now afairly familiar sight all over the country,and you are quitelikely to come across a team dancing when you are out andabout,especially during the summer months.  \n# Older Than Cricket\n\nAlthough you might not guess it simply from watchingthe dances,the Morris has a very ancient history,so ancientthat its origins are lost in the distant past.It is much older,forinstance,than cricket and most of our well-known sports,anduntil about a hundred years ago most of the Cotswold villageshad their own Morris sides,each dancing its own local variantsof the Morris dances.The traditional time for Morris dancingin that part of the country was Whitsun,and some teams usedto spend the whole of Whitsun week touring and dancing intheir own neighbourhood.Nowadays we dance at all timesof the year,indoors and out.  \n# Survival through bad times\n\nThe changes in social conditions during the last centuryhad a bad effect on the Cotswold Morris,and many villagesgave it up altogether.But in some villages,where therehappened to be a man of enthusiasm and determination,theMorris was able to persist through these changes and upheavalsand through two world wars.For instance,at Bampton,nearWitney in Oxfordshire,it was William Wells(who died inNovember I953 at the age of 85)who for over fifty years asdancer and fiddler ensured that the Bampton Morris shouldgo on,and every Whitmonday*the Bampton dancers can beseen dancing in the streets and gardens of their own town.At Headington,near Oxford,William Kimber was thedriving force,and not only the present Headington Quarryteam,which has a nationwide reputation,but Morris menall over the country are greatly indebted to him,for through-out his long life he was always ready to help them to theutmost of his ability.He lived to reach the age of 8g,andwas thus a most important link between the older and youngergenerations of dancers.By a remarkable coincidence,as willbe seen from the next paragraph,he died on Boxing DayI961,62 years to the day after his first meeting with CecilSharp,about whom we must now go on to speak.  \n## Cecil Sharp\n\nAt Christmas 1899 Cecil Sharp happened to be staying atHeadington.On Boxing Day he looked out of the drawing-room window and saw a curious procession of men in whiteclothes coming up the drive.It was the Headington QuarryMorris side,William Kimber among them,coming to give aperformance of their dances(at the wrong time of year,because they were out of work,and wanted to turn an honestpenny).This meeting was the beginning of a lifelong friend-ship between Cecil Sharp and William Kimber,and was alsothe beginning of Cecil Sharp's great work of rediscovering the*Or its modern substitute,Spring Bank Holiday.  \nCecil Sharp  \n(From a portrait by Sir William Rothensteinby cotrtesy of the English Folk Dance and Song Society)  \nWilliam Kimber","cbCaiuggFY9sQJ45","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuggFY9sQJ45","pdf",2876523,28,"English","# What Morris Dancing is and is not\n# Older Than Cricket\n# Survival through bad times\n## Cecil Sharp","[{\"question\":\"What does the text say Morris dancing is not?\",\"answer\":\"It states that Morris dancing is not an antiquarian revival or an attempt to resuscitate something that is dead and buried.\"},{\"question\":\"Why do men dance the 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