
Dancing
We have a great variety of dancing opportunities at the festival this year and many of them are free to watch or participate.
Dancing
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French Bal with Bof!
Date: Saturday September 6th
Venue: Bungay Community Centre, Old Grammar Ln, Bungay NR35 1PU
Time: 8:00-10pm
Cost: You will need a ticket for this event. £6 TicketsBof! play traditional French and Breton music for dancing. Our dance sets include the bourrée, schottische, and mazurka from Central France and the gavotte, hanter dro and plinn from Brittany. You don’t need a partner for many of our dances.
Because most of our set are songs, they are equally suitable for dancing and listening to.https://www.bof-frenchdance.co.uk
Youtube:
https://youtu.be/Aq4FwzJ7WGU?si=KmJooIT9iw_KjZro
https://youtu.be/JZxUMVjqynY?si=wGL5DuYsowvx6qBuhttps://youtu.be/5eg-KXzsTGo?si=KeX44ksOXgkHUUWT
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Family Ceilidh with Far 'N' Away
Date: Saturday September 6th
Venue: Bungay Community Centre: Old Grammar Ln, Bungay NR35 1PU
Time: 3.00 - 4.30pm
Cost: Free: TicketsThis is an opportunity for families to enjoy dancing together in a fun and light hearted way to the fabulous ‘Far ‘n’ Away with caller Birgitta.
This is a free event but it helps us to know numbers so please book a ticket for each person coming.
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Kemps Men Morris
Date: Sunday September 7th
Venue 1: St Mary’s Church 11:15-11.45
Venue 2: Outside The Fleece 12.45 -1.15 pm
Venue 3: On the Castle Bailey 2.15 - 2.45
Cost: FreeKemp's Men of Norwich are named in honour of Will Kemp, colleague of Shakespeare, fellow shareholder in the Globe Theatre, Europe's most famous comic actor and Morris dancer extraordinaire. In 1599, the two Wills fell out; Will Kemp resigned from the Globe and, the following year, went on to dance the "Nine Daies Wonder" from London to Norwich as a turn of the century publicity stunt. Founded in 1956, Kemp's Men have been at it ever since. We dance a wide mixture of Cotswold Morris together with dances from our own local "tradition" of Norwich-upon-Wensum.
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Rumburgh Morris
Date: Saturday September 7th
Venue 1: St Mary’s Church - 11:30-12:00
Venue 2: Outside the old Post Office, Earsham St - 1:00-1:30pm
Venue 3: Outside the Green Dragon - 3:00-3:30pm
Cost: FreeRumburgh Morris was formed in 2008. We are a group of dancers and musicians performing dances in the style of those traditionally danced in the Cotswolds.
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Soniya’s Academy of Eastern Dance
Date: Saturday September 6th
Venue: St Mary’s Churchyard: 18 Trinity St, Bungay NR35 1AU
Time: 12:00-12.30am
Cost: FreeWe are delighted to welcome back Soniya and the opportunity to be transported to another part of the world through dance including Belly Dance, Indian Classical, Bharatnatyam and Bollywood.
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Ceilidh with Whirligig
Venue: Bungay Community Centre
Date: Sunday 7th Sept
Time: 8.00 - 10.00pm
This is a ticketed event £6
For well over two decades, Whirligig’s blend of traditional music from Britain and Ireland, coupled with lively modern songs, has kept this North Norfolk based band constantly in demand for Ceilidhs and Barn Dances throughout East Anglia.
The individual band members all have backgrounds in rock and jazz as well as folk which results in music with a vibrant edge that is fun to dance to.
For the Sunday Evening Ceilidh, the mighty Biggles will be the band’s caller for the night so with a wide range of dances in his armoury to suit beginners and the more experienced it should be a fun and lively evening for all.
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Introduction to Balkan dance
Venue: Bungay Community Centre
Date: Sunday 7th Sept
Time: 2.00 - 3.00pm
Cost: Free
This is an active workshop where Birgitta (caller and fiddler in Far’n’ Away) will introduce you to some of the dances and movement which she teaches on a weekly basis at her dance classes. It’s gentle and very therapeutic and suitable for all ages. This is a free workshop but please book as numbers are limited.
Book here