As a morris dancer myself I am reading through these comments and smiling at the respect shown for these dancers because usually we get shown a lot of disrespect
Odd to hear you get disrespected as a Pratchett reader can't help but think in the back of my mind you lads keep the world turning winter to spring, funny that but even In this modern world some traditions just seem to give us balance and some of the old folklore becomes more comfortable and comforting then all the scientific jargon they can spit, well done on you lads for keeping traditions that bring joy alive you deserve the respect
I think it's really important to keep this tradition going! No matter how much times change. Speaking as the child of an immigrant, I think it's a good thing for us to see, respect and appreciate the culture of the land we were born in.
But culture isn't a static thing set in stone forever. The English language didn't stop developing in the age of Chaucer, Shakespeare or Wordsworth. Even fundamental things like the nature and function of the monarchy have changed over time.
@@lilymarinovic1644 Agreed! I think that’s even more reason to see, respect and appreciate the culture of the land. It’s probable and I’d argue it’s also desirable that those like my parents who come in and integrate would also contribute to shifts in the host culture, just as has happened over the centuries whenever people groups have encountered each other. But I’d hope that in this century it can happen as a result of mutual respect and honour. And I think the onus is on the immigrant to show that respect to the host country.
@@lilymarinovic1644of course traditions change and morph with time but that doesn't mean you intentionally let an old tradition die. That's nihilistic, and totally unnecessary. It's things like morris dancing that make the english unique. If you just give into modernity completely, english culture, or any culture really, will die.
The uk is so depressing nowadays because people find any way to express happiness like this to be childish or silly, i think it is ok to not be serious all the time.
I remember seeing Morris dancers quite alot when i was a kid. my mum always took me to weekend fairs and such in the 80's and they were usually around. It felt totally normal to me to watch this (now) weird spectacle. I love old culture of every country and Morris dancers are definitely important to England and us English. well done lads.
So there's this bus load of blind people driving along and the bus driver starts getting tired. He says to the blind people, "I'm pretty knackered; I'm stopping at the next pub for a bite to eat and a drink, what are you guys going to do?" One of them replies, "no worries, we'll have a little game of football" "Football?!" The driver cries, "but you're all blind!" The blind guy says, "no, it's simple; we strap bells to the ball and then we can hear where it goes" With that, the bus driver pulls into a pub, has a bite to eat and a drink. When he comes out, there are paramedics and ambulances everywhere. Bus driver says, "what's been going on here then??" Paramedic turns around and shouts, "never would have guessed!! A bus load of blind people kicked the sh*t out of a Morris dancer!!!!"
Sometimes when I’m getting undressed at nighttime and taking my socks off, i morris dance down the hallway twirling my socks around and skipping towards the laundry room. I’ll most likely be naked so there is bonus flappage for anyone that may be enjoying the festivities.
@@@serbmihail4026 : That was a bit more challenging - more acrobatic than Morris Dancing, the second dance reminded me of Celtic folk dancing. Are the dances done there for the same reasons? Great video, I enjoyed seeing it - thanks.
I agree- I LOVE Morris dancers! I saw a Morris show in Liverpool on 18th May (2019)- it was great to see so many groups with younger Morris dancers. Long may Morris continue!
thankyou it's so nice seeing that people from across the planet actually realise that we have culture like this but sadly industrialisation and colonialism has killed a lot of it or at least people's appreciation for this
@@gutworm686 they did not take the New Zealand that's why they had the treaty of Waitangi The Maori, look like men. You lot look,like a bunch of flowers.feminin.
I find it really sad that we don't appreciate/ respect the Folk dancing of our own country. I can't think of another country that would feel the same way...
So which national folk dances do you admire? New Zealand Maori Hakas? A bunch of half naked "warriors" stomping around in a line trying to look tough? Russian Cossacks, looking equally ridiculous kicking their legs up in the air? Or African folk dancing? People wearing equally ridiculous costumes dancing around to a drum beat. But I bet you think they're cool, because they're black and primitive looking.
So true! I wish we were taught more about our traditional culture, and i wish less Brits would take the piss out of it. Its just a lot of fun :). I'm actually making my own Morris dancing dress because I think they're really pretty!
I think it’s great, even more so as it was taken from the Moors in Muslim Spain. Morris dancing is from Moorish dancing and even though there’s no exact evidence. The Moriscos who were evading persecution along with Jews in Muslim Spain developed songs and dances I.e flamenco. It is a quintessentially male dance that you will find in certain Arab cultures but I think with all great things in cultures some are imported and given their own twist.
@@livw3090: I’m a Chinese and recently I live in Australia. I did a Morris Dance performance (with traditional Morris music) with 5 of my working colleagues in China in 2014, including one of my English colleague who is from London. The performance was for our Chinese New Year party. Each of us held a stick to dance. The England colleague said he never heard of Morris Dance and did not know how to dance. However, I searched & learnt by internet. Then I taught my England colleague how to do a Morris dance. Out performance may not very decent, but we had a lot of fun and the audience enjoyed it. It was an unique experience. 💃
While I don’t mind all the jokes, some people are just here to be disrespectful calling English culture bland and shit. If your one of those people please keep your views to yourself since a lot of people here (especially older people) come to enjoy their traditions and have a laugh every now and then
Yeah its kind of sad. Taking part in traditions meant to be fun and inclusive. It sucks how much people, especially other brits, take the piss out of it
Imagine my shock while Romania has an old traditional dance almost the same in costumes and style. The music has a different rhythm, check my answer from a few days ago!
This is real Morris dancing, with the correct steps, movements, music and outfits. Please continue to keep English culture and identity alive in the face of attempts to extinguish it.
I'm in the United States. The music is pleasant and the dance is straight of of youre history there as far as I can tell. I enjoyed and was enlightened by the video. Thank-you
The point of the haka is to recount your past deeds in battle. The point of the Morris dance is to have a good time. In the past Morris dancers with their faces blackened so they would not be recognized by the authorities would dance and sing songs criticizing the goverment and the poor living conditions of the British masses.
My youngest daughter had been carrying around a little what’s on in our area book and noticed she had a fixation with the cover which has a picture of morris dancers on it, I told her what you guys are called and that you dance, she loves all kinds of dancing and music she’s very eclectic I asked if she wanted to see the dance and she got very excited so I took that as a big yes 😂 you guys were the first video and at first she kept glancing at the picture to you and back again but the next three back to back replays she was focused solely on you guys! She squealed with joy and you guys get a standing ovation or round of applause from start to finish now 😂 We watched 4 times before she went to bed I asked her if she would Iike me to get some bells for my legs and she definitely approved My daughter is 11yrs old, globally delayed, non verbal, on the autism spectrum and has a supersonically rare genetic disorder. You brightened up our rainy weekend!… I think you have just found your number one fan! If you could see the joy she radiated through watching you it’d give a big one of these 🖕🏻 to everyone that takes the piss!…. People that do that usually aren’t confident enough to do what you do, if you love something anyone that can’t respect that probably want to try certain things but don’t because they don’t want people acting like they do towards themselves, what a dull existence! People that ridicule your loves and likes aren’t the kind of people you want around you anyway Thank you ♥️
Dance, dance wherever you maybe as i am the lord of the dance said he, and i'll meet you all wherever you maybe as i am the lord of the dance said he...
My mate fat fingers - a lump of a man who could fight for fun - served in the paras in the Falklands He emigrated to NZ and when at sporting events Kiwis would be going on about the Haka him and his mate Goose another proper lad they would morris dance for the aggressive kiwis and take the edge off it all 🙏🏼 Morris dancing is ace !😊
I’m from France and my uni teacher showed us some Morris dancing years ago. Now my friends and I really want to have the occasion to travel and see some Morris Dancing with our own eyes!
Remember watching Morris Dancers at fairs when we lived in England during my childhood. Loved them. Still think them a great entertainment, not at all silly as some have commented here, and therefore a lovely tradition I hope will continue for generations.
+Bre Strum It's a fairly common sight in England. This is part of a tradition dating back at least 400 years but it had died out in many areas until the 1970s when there was a huge revival. The English are generally very proud of being English, but that doesn't mean we have to take ourselves very seriously and Morris dancers generally don't. Most Morris dancing involves a lot of beer and general arsing about. We have a lot of entertaining (and often silly) folk traditions in England. If you've never been here, come and visit. You'd enjoy it.
Bre Strum You're young and you have plenty of time. If you are at all interested in history, you should visit. The history of England is evident everywhere you look. The town I live in is very pretty but only about 150 years old, which is just a baby by English standards but I can walk up to the moor and see stones carved with cup and ring marks 4000 years ago and they are all over the place. I love to stand on the moor and look across the dale thinking that people have been standing exactly where I am standing looking across the river for thousands of years. I love feeling that connection with the past.
As a kid in infants, we practiced maypole every Wednesday afternoon ready for mayday celebrations , another tradition wiped from the curriculum and english culture to please the snowflakes...
Now THAT is the Morris dancing I grew up with in Berkshire in the 60s. The Fool in smock with bladder on a stick, the Hobby Horse, and all the traditions observed.
@@DerEchteBold I have. Reminders me of the traditional Carnival costumes around Garmisch-Partenkirchen with the bells around the legs, wips etc. It has a similar style, sound and it's kind of martial and sliiightly creepy.
@@phangirlable Well, I don't know, if you want to see a similarity there, most European folk dances must be seen as similar. The looks of this is quite a bit different from the Alpine traditions.
Cleese, another smartarse, is now laughing on the other side of his mocking face: John Cleese London No Longer English ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WJheODYpuEI.html
You can see the clear pagan/nature worshipping aspect of a lot of folk dances from England and the Continent. It looks like they are throwing grain and telling it to grow tall?
Kinda, historically the dance was to banish the dark of winter, celebrate the warmth and fertility of summer, and bring in autumn's golden harvest. Obviously, no preforms the dance for that reason anymore and you really only see it at seasonal festivals. But it’s still nice to keep the tradition alive😃
Lovely. It's such a shame that it's a dieing tradition. We should be proud of it just like they r proud in New Zealand of the Haka. They should play this in every game & at primary & high schools so they wouldn't be embarrassed of it. Each country has a traditional dance that they r proud of & we seem to b embarrassed. But happy to show off one back side & boobs very English
The English need to take a moment to be proud of their indigenous folk culture rather than football teams and their holidays in Spain. This stuff doesn't just happen. it needs to be perpetuated by the people. At this rate all remnants of sweet old England will be gone.
Why do Morris Dancers wear bells when they dance? So they can annoy blind people also. My dad just told me that joke, so I had to look up what he was talking about. But I think this is wonderful! A+ 100%!
Englishman here. I'm not going to comment on the dancing but I do love the music. Now I know why I love folk music, thanks to the Morris dancing that I heard in the 70's and 80's as a boy. That and a newly discovered love of sea shanties music. Ace.
This looks similar to the romanian calurasii, although it is a lot slower paced. maybe some remnants of a common tradition at some point in history, who knows
I live in France and we have an expat Morris dancing side. My whole family does it (mum, bro(18), me (15) and my dads the mascot(walks around wearing a cape and a giant papier mâché fish on his head(symbol of where we live))
So I was just watching a video of a haka dance at a wedding. An English bloke said the NZ haka is matched the English Morris dance which has brought me here. I worry my next breathe won’t come as the laughter is now uncontrollable.
Im Irish and it's practically engrained into me to hate all things English. But i just can't hate morris dancing. It's such a wonderful tradition. Listen all you English folk, please protect this tradition with all that's left in you, or else you'll have not much left of your own culture. Sincerely an Irish man
In South India, we people wear the same thing and dance for temple fests. Those things we wear would weigh about a total of 8 to 10 kilograms. I encountered the same in this video. I would paste a link here, how both the dances are similar to each other
Morris dancers are a cheap fake version of the morish dancers, they took the dance from morish entertainmeners who are black Jews, who also brought hygiene to UK before they ended up on cargo slave ships, that started in Spain where they lived as well as other parts of Europe before history was rewritten
No? This has its own history rooted in England. I know you probably dont like us but we do have our own culture as well. We even have culture from well back before the anglo-saxons. People just dont learn about it and its not often spoken about here anymore.
I arrived to this vídeo because I have just read that this dance is influenced by "Moros y Cristianos" festivity, wich is tipical from some Spanish towns.
The music is similar to Swedish folk dance music in many ways - played on fiddle and accordion, major scale sounds, the melodic figures used in the turnarounds before going back to the one chord, etc.
