Good formations and a lot more cloggy than other groups I’ve seen. I'd love to see what they could do with staves. If nothing else, a morris dance should make you smile; sometimes the comedic parodies are difficult to distinguish from the real thing.
Only poor Nigel's could watch this without rolling about the floor laughing. Grown men with flowers in their hats, wee tinkly bells on their ankles. Prancing and poncing about in the street shaking wee sticks with ribbons at each other. Absolutely hilarious.
@@Dryhten1801 And judging by the name and the term 'wee' he is of the Scotch persuasion. You know - one of those strange characters who live in that benighted land to the north of beautiful England. The men wear skirts and prance and ponce about over two pointy implements laid on the ground - all the time waving their limp wrists in the air. Absolutely hilarious!
Very beautiful. This beautiful dance derives from the Dacian/Romanian Calusari dance. Its also a must see. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sImsZJ7cX0o.htmlsi=AZOy-qLfdB2MeWWf
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These guys are superb. Great music, outfits and dancing. Please continue to keep English culture and identity alive in the face of attempts to extinguish it.
I have several questions: 1) what is the point of Morris dancing supposed to be? 2) why are there only men in it? 3) why do they all get through [virtually] all of it with wooden faces as if they were at a funeral? 4) why don't they at least laugh along the way at the comedy value of it, when they know that's what everyone else is going to do with it? 5) HOW in Christ's name is this our most famous dance export to the world?
1)it’s fun and traditional, many people enjoy watching or being in the dances 2) this is a men’s only side, there are lots of women’s only sides and lots of mixed sides, it’s not just men 3) there dancing a very tiring and sometimes painful dance in the rain, they are also focusing so can’t be expected to smile constantly 4) im not sure what you mean by comedy value, this is north west, other styles have comedy value like some rapper or cotswold sides but this isn’t supposed to be funny and people don’t find it funny unless they are mocking it 5) it’s just a traditional dance, it’s not especially famous
Beautifully choreographed, loved it - well danced and well played. Would have been wonderful to see this from a birds eye view - maybe drone footage will improve this ... 💯💯💯✔✔✔👍👍👍🎼🎹📻🎵🎵💕🎶
@@ianmacewan9416 Hi Ian, the home countries which comprise Great Britain and/or the united Kingdom which are two different definitions of the countries of these islands can be a bit confusing particularly when you take into account that before the 1900's people used to refer to Britain as England but since the rise of nationalist opinion in Scotland and Wales the demarcation has become more pronounced. To say "Britain is England" would upset quite a few Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish. From my point of view all I am concerned with is the loss of "English" as opposed to Scots and Welsh etc culture which is gradually dying out in our multicultural society. If you talk to children today they seem to know nothing of English country dancing as well as Morris and also English folk songs and jigs. I mention jigs because due to my own ignorance I always thought that jigs were entirely Irish in origin but I have discovered that the earliest mention of Jigs is from the 1400's and mentions English jigs. No offence was intended from me to those who associate themselves with being British only. Best wishes to you on your journey in life. Frank
@@frankblackwell3804 The word "Braitain" is what the Romans called the land they conquered South of their wall. The land North of that they named mostly Caledonia. This is a fact. The English establishment decided to call the whole island Great Britain about 300 years ago, in an attempt to swamp the national identity of Scots. This has worked on the more ignorant and brainwashed of those born in Scotland. It does not work on the majority of us. I don't care who gets upset at the truth and facts. If anyone born in Scotland accepts what a foreign people brand them, that is their problem but they are essentially calling themselves English and they might as well admit it.
@@frankblackwell3804 So you were correct. Morris dancing is English and British at the same time. It is only by default and English ethnocentrism that Scotland is associated with that name. We don't like the association one bit.
@@ianmacewan9416 Just a postscript. I think it brilliant that the Scots and the Welsh and Northern Irish are preserving their culture. I applaud it and wish we English would learn from it.
Yes, please preserve your English legacy.... we are very much connected with you by our common Anglo-Saxon bloodline.... I've been many times in England and I love people and country deeply... 🏴🇩🇪🌹❤️
There are other Morris dancing groups that have more fun and they do it with a bit more gusto.With the meaning behind it, I do prefer it done that way!
@@Bella-fz9fy Depends which form of morris they are dancing. This is North West morris which is more processional - less leaping around. I rather like it.
Rumour has it that Morris dancing was started by Scots men who couldn’t dance a highland reel it spread to England during the Anglo-Scottish Wars when Highlanders with short kilts and no knickers came prancing down the streets of Carlisle with bells tied to one leg , hence the common expression, pull the other leg, it’s got bells on it 😂
"Pull the other one" likely to have originated from court jesters costumes and their role. I think you will find that Morris was mentioned earlier in documents than before these wars.
I wish this is what people thought of when they think of the Uk, not chavs or road men. Funny story when I was 3, we were in Harrogate and the local Morris dancers were performing and I tried to join in. Seeing as I could barely walk I wasn’t very impressing however they were and I still remember it.
Serious the English really should do this dance as their response to the All Blacks haka, chur Tumeke!!! polynesians also have similar dances to this the movements are a bit different but it still depends on footwork, rhythm, cohesion and they also have stick dances as well, or axes/spears/machetes, fire. I have seen Morris dances where they do similar things with the sticks that they do in some polynesian stick dances where they twirl them and pass them between each other and tap out a beat with them while they do it, very dexterous.
It'd be a bit weird. The Haka is a war dance while Morris dancing is a ritual meant to celebrate and promote fertility in the crops and in women at the coming of Springtime (similar to a Maypole). It'd be like responding to a man with a gun by ploughing a field.
@@vanfernandes292 And it had to be the idiot RelativeBadger. Which English traditional dance does he refer to? The various Morris dances of which the video is an example of the North West tradition? Yorkshire Longsword dances? NE Rapper sword dances? The Molly dances of East Anglia? Clog dancing? The English Country Dances that can be seen in just about any film adaptation of a Jane Austen novel - and which were enthusiastically taken up by the French, Scots, Irish and Americans? The English dance tradition is second to none.
Please teach the folk dances like this in college to the history majors, folk costume and textile majors, agreeculture, every majors connected to the roots...
Those are not Peruvian or American Indian costumes. But they are innovative and pretty. The only Peruvian instruments these musicians have are the quenas flutes. The dancing is not Peruvian either.
You expect them all to be grinning like idiots? It's bloody hard work. Perhaps you expect men running a marathon or sprinting over hurdles to be grinning too.
typical English weather i see. Ive lived in China for years and havent lived in the UK since 2008 but this video has everything i need to remember home. The dancers, the pavement, the burger king, the red bus, the church steeple, the 60's architecture in the background and the wet weather all in one video. perfect. looks cold but i know most of them wont be feeling it.
