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 Our Director
Mike Ruff, has
been the driving force behind Tradamis since its inception.
His background is as a dancer, caller and multi instrumentalist and
still attempts to have a separate career as a performer. He
currently dances with St Albans Morris, Nonsuch History & Dance and
runs at least 3 bands, Quicksilver, Lavender Village Band and Null
Nomine Daunce.
The inspiration behind his work in education has been the idea of putting our wonderful traditional heritage into
its proper context and maximising the enjoyment that can bring.
Visit
Mike's Web Site
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 Chris Goodwin
took up the lute at the age of 19, and for the last 13 years has
been Secretary of the Lute Society, and editor of The Lute;
he has also edited and published collections of lute songs from
original manuscript sources. Has appeared on the Radio 3 In Tune
programme, on the Radio 4 Today programme, and as a
musician in the feature film Shakespeare in Love, in
Reeves’ Rogues: Blackbeard on the Discovery Channel, in ITV’s
Have I been here before? and has played, briefly, on BBC’s
The Weakest Link, Channel 4's Stephen Hawking and the Theory
of Everything, Big Brother and University Challenge
Professionals.
He has played on three CDs with the group Passamezzo, and four with
the soprano Jeni Melia. He has sung in numerous choirs, from
childhood, and played the lute and sung in a number of ensembles,
including the folk/early music fusion group Andwella, and The
Giltspur Singers. He is a founder member of English Ayres. Recent
engagements include providing incidental music for the Royal
Shakespeare Company production of Henry VIII at
Stratford-on-Avon, giving the opening recital and lecture in the
first Krakow Lute Festival.
 Theresa
Brockway has been performing and teaching performance skills for
10 years. She trained for 3 years at the Academy of Live and
Recorded Arts where she first began learning historical dance and
studied for her performance diploma in Recorder at Merton Music
School.
Theresa has run educational drama workshops in
schools on the Tudors, the Victorians and other periods of History
and has run confidence building drama sessions for children. She has
worked for the Shakespeare Schools Festival for the last 8 years and
has taught Shakespeare to children as young as 5! She has also
worked for the National Youth Theatre. Theresa has been working with
Tradamis since Spring 2010 and since then has enjoyed teaching dance
workshops in schools, museums, birthday parties and even at a hen
night!
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 Anne Garrison is a qualified
teacher of movement and dance, training at Worcester College of
Higher Education in the 1970s. After
leaving college she was a member of the Instep Dance
Group based at Dunfermline College of PE Edinburgh, performing and
teaching dance in schools.
In
1995 she joined Reading Traditional & Step Dance Group and was
involved with running their very successful clog & step dance
festivals, after the closure of the Cloggies she was a founder
member and is now leader of Aldbrickham Clog & Step Dancers. Anne has
also worked on dance & drama projects.
 Shirley
Dixon has been involved in
traditional dance and song for 30 years. She studied history at the
University of Exeter, and started Morris dancing with the
newly-formed Glory of the West. She has taught Cotswold and
North-West Morris to some of the most highly-regarded women's teams
in the country, and in the 1980s ran and taught a clog-stepping team
based in Guildford. She also has long experience of social dance
('barn dance' and 'Playford dance') and a wide repertoire of
traditional songs. She 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.
 Diana Campbell-Jewitt
has been teaching traditional styles of dance since she was a
teenager and has recently become free lance after working for 12
years as National Education Manager for the EFDSS. She is a
qualified school teacher with a degree in History and Literature and
a Masters Degree in Cultural Studies. She is an author / editor of
many resource books, for use in schools, including, books on
Longsword Dance’, ‘Understanding Victorian Society through Dance’, a
collection of children’s games including skipping traditions,
‘Dancing; Round the Maypole’ and ‘Traditional British and Other
Dances’. Diana is keen to introduce the dance, song and games
traditions of the British Isles to a wider audience.
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