Caroline Flowerdew, one of our new dancers, reflects on her first year of dancing with Glory of the West: If someone had told me this time last year that within a year I would have danced in public in severaldozen pubs and public spaces and even festivals
Read more →It’s 2020 and Black Lives Matter, therefore Glory of the West feel that we can no longer support the practice of wearing full face black makeup within the morris community. We have therefore taken the decision to disassociate ourselves from morris sides who perpetuate this tradition. In
Read more →We began our practice season at the beginning of October and it has been exciting to welcome four new dancers. We’ve been putting them through their paces, teaching them some of our Ascott Under Wychwood dances and introducing them to one of our Ilmington dances. Most of
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Where did the summer go?! We’ve finished our summer dance out season and are back practicing and learning new dances. We’ve had a busy year, as well as our usual Wednesday evening dance outs and some local festivals. We’ve also been on a few travels this year.
Read more →As with most new year’s resolutions, the one we made to blog more appears to have been forgotten about until April. But there is something fresh-feeling about Spring and at least this way we have plenty to update you all with! Following on from our last post,
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Happy New Year from all of us at Glory! It’s been a while since we’ve updated our blog but what better time to start something new than New Year? Tonight was our first practice of 2019 and we had 19 dancers in attendance (plus musicians!), including all
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Doesn’t time fly past when you are having fun? Once more we are coming to the end of our summer dancing season. We have taken it a bit easier this year after the excesses of our 40th Anniversary last year, but we have still had some great
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Well, we have had a winter of weddings, walks and mosaics. Not to mention all the usual dance practices. Our hard-working foreman, Steph, has been beating us into shape for the new season. We have an exciting new dance to try out in public to a tune
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Well, we had a fantastic celebration of our 40 years at our Ruby Party on 15th October. We were joined by our founder members, many ex-members from over the years and many friends, old and new. There was singing and dancing, and heaps of good food –
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Well, what a great summer we’ve had! So many good times, culminating in our Day of Dance in Lympstone and Topsham in the company of our good friends Great Western Morris, Exeter Morris and Cogs and Wheels. We still have some of our 40th Anniversary events to
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