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Lots, I hope! I think that the majority of the sources have not been cited in a published history before. If asked to single out one thing, I think it is that in the later periods I have shifted the main focus of the narrative from Cotswold to the North West, and the logical conclusion to which that leads is contemporary carnival morris. If I had written the book when I first intended to, nearly 30 years ago, it would have been much more focused on Cotswold morris, and would have been much the poorer for it. Because Sharp found and then pursued the Cotswold dances, the story of the revival has been seen very much through a Cotswold lens for most of the 20th century. I was trying not to be influenced by my prejudices, and took the view (very much as John Forrest and I had done in Annals) that the criterion by which to judge whether something counted as ‘morris’ and should be included was what people at the time called it. If it was called ‘morris’, then it was ‘morris’ (with one or two caveats). That led me into lots of new areas. A really nice-looking stop-motion feature from Korea , Mother Land , will compete at the Bucheon International Animation Festival. It comes from Studio Yona and director Jaebeom Park ( Snail Man ). See the trailer here . When someone came up with an idea, the others discussed it,” she said about The Knot , “everyone added something to it, and thus it gradually crystallized into its final form.” On his death in 1539 Guru Nanak (as he was known) had a large following of disciples (or, in Punjabi, Sikhs) made up of both Hindus and Muslims. Over the next 170 years, under the leadership of nine successive Gurus, the Sikhs were built up into a people with their own faith, their own religious rituals, their own customs and ways of life. They changed too from being a people pledged to follow the pacifist teachings of Nanak into a sect of fighting men.
Handkerchiefs are also used as an impromptu way to carry around small items when a bag or basket is unavailable. They could also serve as a substitute for a bandage over a small injury. In the United Kingdom, the habit of wearing a handkerchief with tied corners on one's head at the beach has become a seaside postcard stereotype. The newspaper La Opinión trumpets a “ golden age ” of Mexican animation, brought on by state funding and co-productions with the US. As adults, we know this. And so we find ways to overcome this limitation. We write things down, we make lists, we take notes. Maybe some of us still tie knots in our handkerchiefs. Learning mnemonics. For example, Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet; the colours of the rainbow. The renowned artist Manolo Pérez, who ran Cuba ’s most famous animation house (Estudios de Animación ICAIC) between 1970 and 1984, passed away in early August . He was 86.
We find ways to use the world around us to support our memories. To help us to avoid forgetting. To go beyond the limitations under which we have to work. What if we brought a dancer from the past to watch us in a pub car park on a Thursday night? What would they think about modern morris? (apart from what everyone thinks; why are they dancing in this pub car park and not on a village green somewhere…) This concept had existed since at least the ‘40s. “ The Knot in the Handkerchief is a very old one,” Týrlová said in 1979. It wasn’t a plan for a story — just a thought that she could turn a handkerchief into a character. (Týrlová’s choice of physical material drove many of her films, guiding her other decisions.) Spaced practice. This is where your child practices something repeatedly, but with space in between. For example, they might practice their piano playing on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
In the earliest period, when it came into this country from Europe, it would have looked very different and people today might have difficulty seeing the connection with modern morris. Possibly the other period which people would find strange is the Reformation and the period leading up to the Civil War, when morris dancing and maypoles became potent and contentious symbols of people’s adherence to the Royalist, traditionalist side in opposition to Parliamentarian Puritan voices. The Reverse Puff, or The Crown Fold, is like the Puff, except with the puff inside and the points out, like petals. Yes, but rather by accident. After I’d been with the Oxford City Morris Men for a couple of years, the bagman produced a battered old photograph album and said, “This is our history from 1937 to the early 60s – can you bring it up to date?” So I started digging and never stopped. In the end, I produced 11 volumes for Oxford City, bringing the history up to 1982. They’re now in the Oxfordshire History Centre, together with the six continuation volumes to 1996. Sikhism started when a young Punjabi, Nanak Chand, who was born in 1469, set out to draw together the Hindus and the Muslims. He believed that there was much in common between the two faiths and that the misery and the wars which had so hurt the Punjab over the centuries could be avoided if the two peoples could be brought together. Accompanied by a Muslim musician and a Hindu peasant, Nanak preached his message of the brotherhood of man throughout the Punjab and as far afield as Assam and Ceylon. His crusade was against the fanaticism and intolerance of the Muslim faith as much as against the meaningless rituals and discriminations against castes and sex which were marring the Hindu religion. Ryan, Maurice (1996). Another Ireland: An Introduction to Ireland's Ethnic-religious Minority Communities. Stranmillis College. p.138. ISBN 978-0-903009-25-6.In America , Netflix Animation and Warner Bros. Discovery saw more layoffs this week — roughly 30 people at Netflix, around 100 people in Warner’s ad sales divisions and an unspecified number on Warner’s film Bye Bye Bunny . Way, way before Luxo Jr. or Toy Story , Týrlová made imagination-sparking films about living things . Not only toy soldiers and dolls (although she did use those), but strands of wool, kites, unopened letters, toy trains. Each had its own, special personality. Only three out of 27 chapters in the book are primarily focused on the Cotswold morris. The primary beneficiary of this wider focus is the North-West morris. There are two reasons for this. The first is that, whereas Cotswold morris has an admirable published history in Keith Chandler’s books, there is no such equivalent for North-West morris, so I felt obliged to go into its history in more detail. The second is that, looked at dispassionately, the North-West is where morris remained consistently strong and embedded in its communities when it was in decline elsewhere. I love Eynsham’s dancing, it’s a brilliant, lively tradition. I did a workshop with you at Sidmouth a few years ago and found it really challenging. Did your academic interest in morris history stem from being a dancer?
Under Týrlová and her collaborators, The Knot in the Handkerchief took shape in the late ‘50s — when Týrlová herself was in her late 50s (she was born in 1900). I have tried very hard to make this a narrative history which is understandable to, and interesting for, anyone with no previous knowledge of morris dancing. My wife was very helpful in this – as a non-dancer she read through several drafts and pointed out where I needed to explain things better to a lay readership. I have also tried to convey not just what was done, but what people – both practitioners and audience – thought about it, so it is as much a history of the ideas as it is about the practice. On that note, one we missed: a recent behind-the-scenes for the Mexican series Frankelda’s Book of Spooks . It points to a short that’s new to us — the visually stunning Revoltoso , by the creators of Frankelda .
The team worked in the city of Zlín, at a state-owned studio. Besides Týrlová, a few other key talents on the film were Josef Pinkava, who directed the live-action parts, and designer Kamil Lhoták. Týrlová called it a broad collaboration. She wasn’t an ego-driven filmmaker — allowing others into the process was part of her process. What else might those already involved in, or with a passing knowledge of morris, find most surprising about the history you lay out? King Richard II of England, who reigned from 1377 to 1399, is widely believed to have invented the cloth handkerchief, as surviving documents written by his courtiers describe his use of square pieces of cloth to wipe his nose. [6] Certainly they were in existence by Shakespeare's time, and a handkerchief is an important plot device in his play Othello. More often people were aware of historical changes over their lifetimes. This first emerges in the 16th Century when one text talks of a morris ‘in the ancient manner’, and Will Kemp, in 1600, pinned streamers to his shoulders which he described as ‘the olde fashion’, rather than holding napkins in his hands. The Japanese magazine library Oya Soichi Bunko has a new exhibit — over 500 magazines with articles connected to Studio Ghibli. It starts October 9.
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