Practitoners

Practitioners

experienced teachers, musicians and dancers who teach English traditional and historic dance & song in schools across the UK.

Mumming plays as a Christmas alternative

Music and Dance in your Tudor studies

Life and Work in Victorian Times

Nelsons Navy and the Regency period

Maypole Dancing

Country Dancing

Morris Dancing

Clog Dancing & Percussive dance

Our Director Mike Ruff, a dancer, caller, multi instrumentalist and performer. He currently dances with St Albans Morris, Nonsuch History & Dance and runs 3 bands, Quicksilver, Lavender Village Band and Null Nomine Daunce.

Tudor, Regency, Victorian, Maypole, Morris, Country Dancing, Mumming

01727 831917 email Mike

Visit Mike's Web Site

Anne Garrison is a qualified teacher of movement and dance.

She was a founder member and is now leader of Aldbrickham Clog & Step Dancers. Anne has also worked on dance & drama projects.

Maypole, Victorian

0118 947 4244 email Anne

Shirley Dixon is currently foreman (teacher) of Jackstraws Morris and of Windsor Morris, and in that role often teaches Morris to schoolchildren, folk festival-goers and youth groups.

Morris, Country Dancing

01252 628190 email Shirley

Theresa Brockway has been performer and teacher, she has run educational drama workshops in schools on the Tudors, the Victorians and other periods of History.

Tudor, Regency, Maypole,

020 7738 6737 email Theresa

Penny Brookman has taken Morris and traditional dance around the world, and upheld the tradition of maypole dancing in her village. Penny has a Masters degree in Performing Arts and PGCE.

Tudor, Maypole, Morris, Country Dancing, Mumming, Regency

01488 683314 email Penny

Chris Goodwin took up the lute at the age of 19, his is Secretary of the Lute Society, he has edited and published collections of lute songs from original manuscript sources and played on CDs with the group Passamezzo, and with the soprano Jeni Melia.

He is a founder member of English Ayres.

Tudor

01483 202159 email Chris