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‘Morris is a creature of its own’: a dance for a new age – photo essay

Is Morris dancing becoming younger and hipper? From all-female sides to youth teams and an appearance at the Brit awards, photographer Rachel Adams has been chronicling England’s oldest surviving rural tradition, and seeing how it has found a place in 21st-century Britain

In 2016 I was living on the south coast, looking for interesting scenes to photograph. As I roamed the countryside on long summer evenings, I realised there was a scene right in front of my eyes. Even better, it required spending those evenings in real-ale pubs with a well-known but little-understood form of folk culture as free entertainment.

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