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Event Photos

As an unforeseen consequence of becoming a mixed side, the person who used to take all our photographs joined the side as a dancer, and since then we have had problems scraping together new pictures. However, we’ve had a whip round and come up with a few in an attempt to bring the timeline up to the present date.

The big news of 2024 is the advent of the new kit, which we hope will be more accessible and a little more modern looking for new dancers. Here we are after dancing the sun up on Mayday morning:

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Oh, I almost forgot – also there was a little thing called Covid, which accounts for the absence of 2020 and the greater part of 2021.

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A selection of Andrew’s photos over the past few years. See if you can spot the socially distanced dance!

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Taken by Maggie, this is from May Day morning when we danced the sun up on the first of May 2023. (We make sure to be dancing by 5.20am when the sun rises. Otherwise who knows what might happen? The sun just might not come up at all. We can’t risk it.)

A selection of Louise’s photos, from the Queen’s Jubilee in 2022, through teaching May-Pole dancing at Denny Abbey on Mayday 2023, getting volunteers to dance Long Odds at Coveney Community Orchard, to dancing on the stage at Ely Folk Festival 2023. Look how far off the ground we are in that bottom picture from Ely Day of Dance! Everyone in the air at once 🙂

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March Christmas Fair 2022 was wet and cold. We were very rained on, but as ever, the show went on 🙂

Ely Folk Festival 2021 was a strange affair thanks to Covid – there was a stage for the performers so we could be kept away from the public, but the space for the musicians was so small we all had to huddle together, and the stage was also small enough to make us fear for our lives if we mis-stepped.

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One of the new socially distanced dances we created in order to begin to dance again, post Covid, being danced at a very low-key outdoor fair in the cathedral grounds 2021.

We created three new socially distanced dances, Stick The Distance, Odd One Out, and The Plague Mask, and adapted a number of our other dances so that no dancer came within two metres of another dancer or a member of the public.

When the rules forbade gatherings of more than six people, we fielded five dancers and a musician, and practiced out of doors with masks on.

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