Rolf Gardiner
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Henry Rolf Gardiner was an English rural revivalist who helped to bring back folk dance styles including Morris dancing and sword dancing. He also founded groups significant in the British history of
Rolf Gardiner at his wedding to Marabel Hodgkin in 1932. The North Skelton sword dance group form the guard of honour.
Morris dance
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Morris dancing is a form of English folk dance. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers in costume, usually wearing bell pads on their shins,
Rolf Gardiner
…Henry Rolf Gardiner (5 November 1902 – 26 November 1971) was an English rural revivalist who helped to bring back folk dance styles including Morris dancing and sword dancing. He also founded groups significant in the British history of organic farming; his forestry methods were far ahead of their time and…
Morris dancers with handkerchiefs in York
One of Erasmus Grasser's small Moriskentänzer statues from 1480, showing what would have been termed a "moorish" dancer, where seven of the other nine surviving carvings are fairer-skinned. All wear bells on their legs.
Illustration of William Kempe, Morris dancing from London to Norwich in 1600
Morris dancers and a hobby horse: detail of Thames at Richmond, with the Old Royal Palace, c. 1620