Daisy Black
Daisy is a caller and storyteller based in Sheffield, where she runs the popular dance and music session, Playford in the Pub. She calls for contra, ceilidh, and English dances, and particularly enjoys making historical dances lively and accessible for new and more experienced dancers. She also uses her experience as a theatre practitioner and storyteller to give dances momentum, narrative and energy. Her storytelling weaves medieval narratives together with English folk song. Often moving, occasionally political, frequently feminist, just a little queer and regularly funny, my stories underline the relevance and vibrancy of medieval narratives for today’s world.
The Bayeux Tapestry: The Full Yarn
Storyteller and academic Daisy Black provides a hawk’s eye view of the Bayeux Tapestry, where kings battle, oaths are broken and wheels of cheese are stolen by crafty foxes.
Interweaving the fables of the Bayeux Tapestry’s margins and human narratives with Old English poetry and English folk song, this one-woman show stitches together an epic account of the events leading up to 1066. Seventy metres of history in a single hour!
Date: Sat 1st August, 7pm, All Saints Church Hall,
Calling Contra Wed 5th, 7.30pm, St Teresa’s Church Hall
Details in Main Programme