Simon Pipe

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Preferred email

pipe@pipemedia.co.uk

Address

Horn Hill Cottage Horn Hill road West Adderbury Near Banbury Oxon OX17 3EU

Teams

The Outside Capering Crew (Midlands area, UK) Adderbury Morris Men (UK) ….. and previously: Frome Valley (Dorset, UK) Great Western (Exeter, UK) Trigg (Bodmin, Cornwall, UK) Downes-on-Tour (touring, UK) Gloucestershire Old Spot (Cheltenham, UK) Stony Stratford (Bucks, UK)

Traditions

Crew: Ascott-under-Wychwood (derived) Bampton (derived) bacca pipes (non-traditional) broom dance (non-traditional) pint pot dance (non-traditional) hat dance (non-traditional) …. and Adderbury: Adderbury!

Morris instruments

pipe and tabor

Beasts and fools

fooling is integral to the dancing of The Outside Capering Crew. I can juggle and stuff like that, and it all comes into the dancing.

Anything else that needs to be said

The Outside Capering Crew was founded with - and still has - only two dancers. Our small repertoire is designed to be complex, spectacular (fake athleticism) or entertaining (cheap gags). We were formed specifically to perform a single dance on the main arena stage at Sidmouth Festival in 1996, as part of Frost and Fire, a show celebrating the British ritual year. We returned to Sidmouth as a booked side in 1997. We do not expect to continue performing as a team beyond 2000. We're available for bookings. Gosh, that was uncharacteristically formal. ….. Adderbury? I live here - is there a choice about it? And no, I did NOT move to Adderbury just so I could dance with the team. I don't even LIKE stick dances.