‘I hope future generations continue the tradition’
Kerry Fletcher, 60, is the co-artistic director of Folk Dance Remixed. She lives in Maidstone, Kent with her partner Chris, 58.
I’ve been Morris dancing since I was a teenager. ‘It’s amazing – I love the feeling of using your whole body, connecting with the dance and the music,’ I tell my friends. ‘It’s such good fun!’
My mother, Dixie Lee, used to run a folk club in Whitstable in the 1970s. It was going well, but she noticed the Morris dancers were all older men and didn’t think this looked great. She thought women