For Folk's Sake: Morris Dancing and Me: How women may be the unlikely saviours of the ancient tradition. For Folk's Sake: Morris Dancing and Me airs on BBC Four HD at 11:15 PM, Sunday 31 March. How women may be the unlikely saviours of the ancient tradition
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
Women were once excluded from the official folk dance groups – but now the barriers are down. Will this mean the end of traditional morris performances?