JMO Publicity Workshop

Saturday 3rd March 2012, 11am - 4pm

A workshop to discuss and plan effective publicity for Morris Sides
focusing on the types of medium available and how to get the best out of
the use of publicity for the benefit of each Side throughout the Country.

More information on the workshops page >>

JMO 2012 - Stratford Upon Avon

Open Morris

on behalf of the Joint Morris Organisations announces

JMO 2012
Day of Dance, June 30th 2012
Stratford Upon Avon

at the invitation of the

Royal Shakespeare Company & Stratford Town Council

Dancing with Will (pdf) >>

More details to follow.

JMO Sheffield National Morris Spectacular

The Joint Morris Organisations presented a

Morris Spectacular

Hosted by the Morris Ring in Sheffield

on Saturday 14th May 2011, 10am – 4.30pm

Highlights of the day

  • Opening ceremony performed by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield and Mayor of Amber Valley
  • Massed dance displays at Tudor Square in front of the world famous Crucible and Lyceum Theatres
  • Up to 1,000 performers (and that’s a lot of bells & ribbons!)
  • Showcase performances by the cream of English Folk Art
  • Cotswold and Border Morris dancing
  • Northwest Processional Clog Dancing
  • Garland dancing
  • Individual step clog dancing
  • Longsword and Rapper sword dance displays
  • Mumming Plays & Street Theatre
  • Molly dancing
  • Appalachian
  • Fools, Beasts, & Characters of myth & legend
  • Ye Olde Morris Shoppe

This event follows on from the highly successful JMO days listed below.

Previous JMO Days of Dance

Every two years, and every year in the run up to the 2012 London Olympics, the three Morris dancing organisations, The Morris Federation, The Morris Ring and Open Morris, hold a joint Day of Dance.

The 2010 JMO Day of Dance was held in Bury St Edmunds on Saturday 17 April 2010. Fifty-two sides from the three organisations took part in glorious sunshine.

The 2009 JMO Day of Dance was held in Nottingham on Saturday 28th March. The event was co-ordinated by Lady Bay Revellers.

The 2007 JMO Day of Dance was held in Birmingham. There is a report on the event in the November issue of the OM magazine, Dancing On.

'Dancing On' No. 53 (pdf version) >>  

Morris Dancing - Risk Assessment

There has been a lot of discussion about risk assessment on the MDDL recently and in response, we have decided to provide this link to the Morris Ring site. At the last meeting of the Joint Morris Organisations it was agreed that the risk assessment form on the site is freely available for any side to use. It is basic and easy to do and should answer many questions you may be asked to answer if your side is asked to provide a risk assessment before dancing out.