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SeaWitch Morris is a women’s Cotswold morris side, started in Seattle the summer of 2023. Our mission is dedicated to the teaching, dancing, singing, playing music, performing and enjoyment of Morris Dancing. We aspire to be astonishingly adequate!
We are dancing our version of the Bucknell tradition.
September through May, you can usually find us practicing at the Phinney Neighborhood Center Wednesday nights 7:30 – 9pm. During the Summer, we practice at Greenwood Park (near N. 89th St & Fremont Ave N) most Wednesdays, with a few danceouts planned. For the lastest information, please check our Facebook page. We have a few dances posted on our YouTube channel!
FALL 2025 – WINTER/SPRING 2026 -We are back at the Phinney Center on Wednesday nights!
Next dance out:
Saturday, October 25 – Look for a group of witches at the Phinneywood “Hunger Goblin'” between 1-3 PM. It might be us! We will start north of 80th and work our way south. https://phinneywood.com/2025/10/hunger-goblin-business-district-trick-or-treat-is-next-saturday-the-25th/
Saturday, December 6th, 12:45 PM – SeaWitch and the Mossyback Morris Men perform at the Phinney Center Winter Festival https://www.phinneycenter.org/events/winter-festival/
PAST DANCEOUTS:
September 6 – Whidbey Island Tour
September 7 – Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival
with the Mossyback Morris Men and Bridgetown Morris Men
Sunday, August 24 – Green Lake (changed from Alki due to a competing event) – start 6pm near the Community Center
Green Lake – Wednesday August 20 (beginning at the Bathhouse Theatre at 6:30pm, “Morris time”, making our way around the top of the lake to the Community Center)
Magnuson Park – Sunday August 17 start 1pm at the boat launch
NW FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL 2025 :
SeaWitch is scheduled to dance
Saturday, May 24, 4pm at the McCaw Promenade
with Sound & Fury, Side of the Tide, Vancouver Morris Men, and the Mossyback Morris Men.
Sunday, May 25, 12pm, Open Air Stage
with Side of the Tide, Vancouver Morris Men
May Day 2025! Seattle Morris sides dance the sun up to assure the coming of summer (eventually). An ancient English custom,which has been celebrated in Seattle for 40-plus years. Join us to greet the dawn and add your voice to a few May songs. Gasworks Park, 5:50–7am, approximately (listen for bells).
Saturday, January 11, 2025 1-2pm – Seattle Wassail! The Seattle Wassail is a regional Morris dancing tradition. Each year, local sides and visitors from around the Pacific Northwest join us to wassail the apple trees in Meridian Park. We care deeply about cider, so we give our fruit trees attention and care in the traditional way to ensure they bear fruit in the coming year and its cider harvest!Join us for this family-friendly event that includes singing, dancing, and toasting to the health of the trees. The wassail happens rain or shine, please dress for the weather. Find us near the apple trees on the Northwest side of the park, bordering Meridian Ave N, just South of N. 50th Street.
(Summer 2024):
Monday, June 17: Washington Park Arboretum (w/ Sound & Fury Morris)
Thursday, July 25: Magnuson Park (w/ the Mossyback Morris Men) 6:45 – 8pm approximately
6:45 PM (“Morris time”) – Boat Ramp
2nd Dance stop – on the path to the beach
3rd Dance stop – near the swimming beach
Wednesday, July 31: West Seattle (all times listed in “Morris Time”)
7pm Duamish Co-Housing
8:00 (?) – dancing at the Lincoln Park Troll (Bruun Idun)
9:00 (?) Pub o’clock
Sunday, August 18: Alki Beach (at the Statue of Liberty)
SeaWitch will dance with Sound & Fury and other Seattle dancers, starting at 6:30pm.
Wednesday, August 27: Green Lake
7pm (“Morris time”) in front of the Bathhouse Theater
(Other dance stops around the lake to be decided. This is our last Dance-out of the summer)