{"id":6484,"date":"2012-05-05T01:09:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T00:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6484"},"modified":"2012-05-05T01:09:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T00:09:24","slug":"abingdon-links-in-london-6-cecil-sharp-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=6484","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Links in London 7 &#8211; Yours to Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12050304.jpg\" alt=\"Cecil Sharp House\" \/><br \/>\nToday, I visited Cecil Sharp House in Camden, off Regents Park Road.<\/p>\n<p>Cecil Sharp was a collector of folk music and dances which he documented. He was instrumental in the revival of this traditional form of dancing and became the first ever Professor of Folk Music and Dance<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12050301.jpg\" alt=\"Cecil Sharp House\" \/><br \/>\nInside Cecil Sharp House I saw a little model of the Headington Quarry Morris Dancers who Cecil saw one Boxing Day morning when visiting an Aunt in Oxford.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/meritexelbonas.jpg\" alt=\"Cecil Sharp House\" \/><br \/>\nA collaborator of Sharps&#8217;s called Mary Neal found her inspiration from nearby Berkshire. (Photo by Meritxell Bonas). The picture shows the recent Mary Neal celebration at Cecil Sharp House where the Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers performed .<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12050302.jpg\" alt=\"Cecil Sharp House\" \/><br \/>\nCecil&#8217;s interest was perhaps \u00a0more academic, while Mary used the dances to teach to young working class girls in her Esperance Club.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12050303.jpg\" alt=\"Cecil Sharp House\" \/><br \/>\nMary heard of some dancers from a town in Berkshire who always danced with horns mounted on a pole. That interested her greatly. So she wrote and got the reply <em>&#8216;Honourable and respected Miss, I am that party which has the old dances, and I shall be proud to show them to you. Yours to command.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She first came to Abingdon around 1910 and saw them dance at the White Horse Pub. They also went to London to dance for her. Her correspondent went by the well known Abingdon name of Hemmings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I visited Cecil Sharp House in Camden, off Regents Park Road. Cecil Sharp was a collector of folk music and dances which he documented. He was instrumental in the revival of this traditional form of dancing and became the first ever Professor of Folk Music and Dance Inside Cecil Sharp House I saw a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}