Introduction to Rose Moresk & The Early Morris Project
Rose Moresk are a group dedicated to researching and recreating the Moresk
to entertain and educate the public. Our first recreation is the courtly
Moresk of around 1500.
Our performances are appropriate for both specialist and general audiences. They are
entertaining and exciting to watch. The Moresk dances were performed as court
entertainment with elements of drama and other dance forms creating a narrative.
Rose Moresk strives to recreate this as accurately as possible and in a manner
that is entertaining and accessible to modern audiences.
Thus the dances performed by Rose Moresk are drawn from a collection of dances,
known as the Gresley
Manuscript, originating from a large house in Derbyshire. They are
believed to be the aide-memoir of a dancing master around 1500. Although the
manuscripts do not specifically state that these are Moresk dances, they contain
features that resemble those elements from other sources known to have been part
of the Moresk.
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