Forty years ago a sharp-nosed, ascetic British antiquarian named Cecil Sharp noted that in certain remote parts of England, primitive villagers dressed themselves in strange costumes and skittered through peculiar dance steps unknown to most civilized Britishers. Poking sharply about among the archives of the British Museum, he discovered that many of these dance steps were as old as all get-out, some of them pre-Christian. Sharp de cided that the archaic struts & stomps of Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland should be revived. With this in mind, he founded the English Folk-Dance Society in 1911. Periodically the society's members would get together...
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