If anyone wanted to watch any of the talks from DERT, see the links below. They are mostly about 20 minutes long, with a couple of bonus short ones with the musician set and the tommy songs..

Playing for rapper (~20mins): A discussion about playing for rapper sword dancing with Martin Clarke, Becky Graham, Bryony Griffith, Sarah Matthews and Alex Wade

Musicians set (~3mins): To finish our talk series, here are the musicians from the Playing for Rapper talk with a beautiful tune set. 

Creating figures and dances (~20 mins) A discussion about how to create rapper sword figures and dances with Tom Besford, Tom Chafer-Cook, Laura English Rose and Kev Theaker.

Tommying (~20mins): A discussion about tommying for rapper sword dancing with Chris Cartridge, Edwin Dyson, Stuart Higson and Sally Wearing

Tommy songs (~6mins): Good people give 'ear to mi story, we've created these videos, not by chance, 3 tommies we've brought blythe and bonnie intending to give you a bit of a song! 

Trad Talk (~20mins): A discussion about the tradition of rapper sword dances with Alice Coady, Mossy Christian, Phil Heaton, Eilidh Smith and Simon Vaughan

Happy Weekend!

Hannah