Morris dance
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Morris dancing is a form of English folk dance. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers in costume, usually wearing bell pads on their shins,
Morris dancers with handkerchiefs in York
One of Erasmus Grasser's small Moriskentänzer statues from 1480, showing what would have been termed a "moorish" dancer, where seven of the other nine surviving carvings are fairer-skinned. All wear bells on their legs.
Illustration of William Kempe, Morris dancing from London to Norwich in 1600
Morris dancers and a hobby horse: detail of Thames at Richmond, with the Old Royal Palace, c. 1620
Border Morris
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Border Morris is a collection of individual local dances from villages along the English side of the Wales–England border in the counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire. They are part
Morris dance
…Morris: more military in style and often processional, that developed out of the mills in the North-West of England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Border Morris from the English-Welsh border: a simpler, looser, more vigorous style, occasionally danced with blackened or coloured faces. Long Sword dance from…
Border morris dancers, White Ladies Aston
Silurian Border Morris Men, Church Lane, Ledbury, Boxing Day 1996
Widders with short sticks
The Shropshire Bedlams at Towersey Festival, 1980