Dancing with Daleks

[watervole]

There were a couple of morris dance workshops at Redemption.  After the second one, we had three volunteers to do a performance in the cabaret.  Then Helen uttered the immortal words, "I have a dalek costume..."

Then a nice gentleman donated me some light sabres, and the rest is history!

My three dancers learned a totally new dance with less than an hour's practice and managed to dance it well on stage in spite of me fluffing the music several times!  Helen also won 'best chaos costume' in the masquerade, when her dalek got the tech crew to lift her on and off stage.  It was a very polite dalek. (but all said in perfect 'dalek-speak')  But it still exterminated everyone.  There are certain principles to be upheld.

Can anyone point me to a photo of the dalek morris dance?

Meanwhile, here's the filk song...  (Permission freely granted to sing/reproduce in any form as long as you credit me)

'Dancing With Daleks' by Judith Proctor


Tune: Waltzing Matilda

Once a jolly morris man, went to a convention,
He leapt and he span and he danced a dance so free,
And he sang, as he swung his hazel stick around him,
Who'll come a morris dancing with me?
Who'll come a-dancing?
Who'll come a-dancing?
Who'll come a-morris dancing with me?
And he sang, as he swung his hazel stick around him,
Who'll come a-morris dancing with me?

Up came a dalek, looking lost and lonely,
"Here is a staircase. Please assist me."
So the morris dancer helped him up the staircase,
Won't you come a-morris dancing with me?
Who'll come a-dancing?
Who'll come a-dancing?
Who'll come a-morris dancing with me?
So the morris dancer helped him up the staircase,
Won't you come a morris dancing with me?


On came the dalek, straight into the morris dance,
Glided through the figures elegantly,
It swung its sink plunger to parry with the hazel stick,
Who'll come a dancing with daleks with me?
Dancing with daleks,
Dancing with daleks,
Who'll come a-dancing with daleks with me?
It swung its sink plunger to parry with the hazel stick,
Who'll come a dancing with daleks with me?

Up swung the dalek gun to shoot the hapless morris man,
"Exterminate.  I am very sorry,"
In the depths of outer space, I hear a dalek singing:
"Who will come a-morris dancing with me?"
Dancing with daleks,
Dancing with daleks,
Who'll come a-dancing with daleks with me?
In the depths of outer space, I hear a dalek singing:
"Who will come a-morris dancing with me?"

Comments

[kerravonsen]

Oh boy. That MUST have been fun. Do you think someone might have filmed it?

[dame_grise]

OMG! You have a Dreamwidth account?

Now I will just die of embarrassment and go back to my little corner.

[watervole]

Hi, which of the several Sams I know are you? (Or are you a totally new Sam?)

[dame_grise]

I can't remember if I was using Sam when I was visiting over there. I know I used at the university. I met you, and a few others, when I was an exchange student in 88-89, one of the most fun and most embarrassing times of my life. My other name is Shannon.

[watervole]

Still can't place you. Which university? 88-89 would be after my time at the University of East Anglia.

Did we meet at a convention?

[dame_grise]

I don't know if you were at the con I went to, but I went to see one of Paul Darrow's plays a few times and met you and another lady, Mary I think. I can't find my book where I wrote down addresses. It's been a long time.

And if you don't remember I don't mind so much. Really. I was just shocked. The Internet can make the world so small sometimes.

[watervole]

Probably when Paul was in Guards Guards!

I certainly went to see that one, because Gareth was in a play in another town close by.

[gipsy-dreamer.livejournal.com]

You're looking for this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80363Ezsjvc).

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

The Dalek morris dance was brilliant! I got a few photos but they didn't come out too well because they were taken from the middle of the hall with no flash. This is probably the best of them:

[davidwake.livejournal.com]

The Morris Dancing with a Dalek was a highlight of the con, full of good things. It was the way the Dalek glided as the others were bouncing up and down, and her expression, that made it really work. Utterly inspired, a wonderful piece of theatre.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

*Whooping with mirth*
You are a bottomless well of inspiration and humour!