Anne Dicks was 67 when she took part in her first morris dance. While a group of people skipped, spun and whooped their way across her local village hall in Malvern in 2019, Dicks sat with the band and played a melody for them to move to on her saxophone. “Everyone was elated and the energy was infectious,” she says. “It was a raucous introduction and a real spectacle.”
It was a special performance, not just because it was Dicks’ first time playing the centuries-old folk music, but because all of the dancers in the troupe were visually impaired. While Dicks herself doesn’t have a visual impairment, she had become involved with the community four years earlier.
