Oh … that would confuse our boys! Kiwi men are lousy dancers! All Blacks lead the charge on that. The haka is a big stomp, so any skipping and hopping would mess with their brains. They’d love the stick bashing though….Maori weapons training!
My Kiwi husband agrees. The entire team would fall on the ground laughing. Might be the only way to win. When he saw Morris dancers that we accidentally encountered outside a New Forest pub in England I thought I'd have to call him an ambo, he had such a fit of the giggles he couldn't breathe properly.
Yes, in one of his Tiffany Aching books. He made it up, but on one of his book tours, a bunch of Morris dancers came and danced a “dark” Morris in total silence and left! 🙂
I love my country (at times), our heritage is so interesting, unique and far reaching. But that was a morris dance with a gothic twist, it was amazing.
Aargh, the memories. It brings a tear to my eye and a hand to cover the hole in my trousers. Does anyone else see the similarities in this festive hoppo-bumpo and Monty Python's 'Fish Dance' at the lock?
Yes it is called Brimfield, I have few other performances of theirs from the same day, the titles for each do include the song names which I did check with the group.
@@alangee2200 not a helpful remark and not always obvious - sometimes the name of the dance and name of the tune might not match, that is certainly the case in North West morris
Morris dancing is both hankies and sticks, different dances with different traditions. I used to dance Cotswold Morris which funnily enough comes from the Cotswolds and Oxfordshire and is traditionally a male only dance. There is then border Morris and clog morris. The side I danced with back in the 1980’s was a member of the Morris Ring which kept the traditions going and was strictly a male tradition. The earliest known mention of the Morris is from the 1400’s so it’s been around for a very long time.
