I'm Scottish, but I love Morris Dancing; if there was a club, or whatever it's called, in Glasgow, I'd join in a minute!

Rock on guys. Keep the tradition alive and be proud of it. Rock on.

Almost exactly as out of my book....Adderbury Morris -Sweet Jenny Jones....🙂

I love this...wish I were there...what fun! Thanks John!!

I like it! The dances are Sweet Jenny Jones from the village of Adderbury and The Quaker from the village of Bampton for those who don't know.

My favourite Morris KZfaq.

More publicity should be given to this ancient martial art from Albion. Down with kendo, long live morris!

As scintillating as it's sexy. Morris dancing came to England (and Germany) from the Moorish dance in Spain in the 15th century. My dog liked a few moments of this.

I thoroughly enjoyed this, and thank you for posting it!

Love to start Morris Dancing...just read a small pamphlet on William Wells

Nice to know that the good old British sense of humour is alive & well today in the Morris Dancing comunity then...!

glad to see people holding onto their traditions....Butterworth, UK composer, was an enthusiastic Morris dancer

Ignore the haters and negative comments. Well done!

Lol me too. I'm french, and had never heard of morris dancing before, so I thought he had invented it. But then at the end of the book he mentions at a book signing a troup of morris dancers performed the black morris for him. So I came here to see.

song's quite catchy :D

Omg this is very similar to a traditional dance from Portugal

I know I'm an American but this makes me laugh. I never realized Monty Python's Fish dance was a Morris Dance.

YAYA TOURE brought me here!

can be executed in a vast array of different movements and highly varying styles. To the extent new styles and new moves are brought about on a regular basis, making break dancing almost more of a artistic expression of talent and ones own strengths or weaknesses rather then a ritualistic forced tradition. So with that in mind its really no surprise many youths prefer break dancing to Morse dancing.

@RatherLargeAllan Morris dancing, derived from the term "Moorish" dancing. It was taken from the dancing style of the the Moors, who were the mixed Arab and Berber (North African) race of people who conquered Spain. Very interesting to see how culture evolves!

Yes! I was thinking that too. They're really similar.

what a hillarious tradition there you have in england. people in my country have forgott their own traditional culture and prefer to folow what they say as "western culture"

It's a traditional dance in many areas of the northern Spain. Here in Catalonia is a very traditional as well, we call it "Ball de Bastons" (Dance of Batons). There are many examples in youtube..

You can say what you want but that must take hard work

...(continued 2) ...deride our own. I won't do it. I will vehemently defend Morris dancing (and the related music and dances of Scotland and Ireland) as part of one of the most advanced, important cultures ever to have been present on this Earth.

Man, I wish I was in England right now

Amazing dance

And we get it tight for wearing kilt's lol, glad i seen this.

England's traditional dance

Haha That's exactly why I looked it up too :P

@joshuanesbit Yes, it's as close to the national dance of England you can get.

It's been 12 years and I'm still wondering what was going on that day

1) Mute the music on this. 2) Play Sexy and I Know It by LMFAO and watch the video. 3) Die laughing. xD

It looks like enough don't to keep the tradition cheerfully alive. The dancers always look like they're having fun and if it annoys stick in the mud types, good for them.

...(continued) ...and the culture about which this dancing tells a story is the culture of a people whose influence and advancement in technology and culture allowed to spread all over the world, creating modern human civilisation as we know it. Cars, trains, plains, multi-storey buildings, advanced sciences, art, architecture, superb advanced healthcare, electricity etc. Sub-saharan Africans didn't even invent the wheel, yet we are forced to glorify Afro-Caribbean dance/music cultures and...

I've read that Morris dancing in the British Isles might have spread there as a result of Celtic migrations. Considering that the Celts ranged throughout Europe there's a possibility that they acquired it from Eastern Europe (Roman Dacia). Fascinating. Cheers!

Great cheers!

This is pretty much what the Basques call "makil dantza" and quite likely made to England from the Basque country not the other way around. But then again, I'm no expert. Type "makil dantza" up there and you'll see plenty of samples.

...forum is oftentimes a rough and crude place. It's somewhere for anyone, no matter what they feel or believe, to express themselves however they see fit. If the only way they can do that, or the only way they choose to do that, is with poor grammar, shite punctuation, or with foul language than so be it. It only adds flavour. The flavour may not be pleasant, but it's unique, and that's what's important...dum, dooDUM! Bringing me back to my analogy about morris dancing. Like I said...

@ManlnCognito HA HA HA! that's the best line i've heard all year.

The Whicker's with their wands, But these are masons with their batons.

So this is the morris dance. I was wondering what Terry Pratchett was talking about.

It IS Earl of Stamford

that made me laugh so hard

this looks like Romanian Calusarii!!!!!!!

A word of warning: Be very carefully if you find yourself drinking with the Morrisers. Many of them are part of the real ale brigade and then can booze the average human into oblivion... I KNOW!

Hi, I'm meant to be teaching some primary school children some basic morris dancing. I'm struggling to find any music I can download online (paid or on the cheap)...Can anyone point me in the right direction? PLEASE! =)

@lawrencejb1 ...any discourse on the topic except for everyone talking about how wonderful it is, and how boring would that be? Same goes for sexuality, religion, or anything. Just because it's sacred to some dosn't mean everyone else is going to feel the same way, or that they even should. That's the beauty of an open public forum like this one. You get to hear all sides, see the criticism, respond to it, agree with it, confront it, whatever. And that brings me to my next point. The public...

That would be the view of you and the other 5 old men still in the Morris Ring would it?

@epmorris Rather a sad attitude... the tradition needs to be kept alive, and our side (Earl of Stamford Morris, dancing 'Sweet Jenny Jones' at the beginning of the cilp - I'm the accordion player seen at the end of the dance) does a grand job of bringing the youngsters in. Three years ago we actually fielded a set of under-18's complete with musician, and all of them are still dancing Morris even though some of them have now headed off to Uni and dance with other sides.

It looks like a complicated way to break your fingers

so THATS what morris dancing is! O: first people that bang sticks against other sticks then people slapping eachother with some cloth.... well then i know

lol

Is this normal???

Who asked you to judge?

@1Siriusmind i mean the other culture like they dressed like a punk rocker even they don't

Ah yes... Now I see why we europeans headed for the New World, the Dark Continent and Far East, with all due haste... Haka for the win! Nah, kidding, good show, though I can't say I'm that big of a fan....

@lawrencejb1 ...it's fuckin' goofy as hell, but that's okay (it's only my opinion afterall). Maybe I wasn't in the mood for sexy chic or red hot rythm. Thank goodness I have these unique flavours to choose from, and your own opinions only contribute to that. And that's the beautiful thing, which I think ties in well with everything you said also.

@mrmojohasrisen "Yous" is not a word. "You" is used as both a singular and plural form. Please sort that out. Can I remind you that Scotland and England have been united since 1603, therefore Scotland is equally as guilty in the time period I believe you're referring to? Hence the "British" Empire, not the "English" Empire. Two World Wars and one World Cup? Because England- as part of Britain- was part of the prevailing force of the two wars and won the World Cup. Kind of obvious.

why the fuck is this still around? if only it had died out safely before it could be documented .. but now its on the internet so it will be here forever. fuck

mental

i still say you should try incest miore than once (but most definitely NOT Morris Dancing)...!!

@kramnodd9 This type of dancing is what children's parents tell there children they did, or still do in an attempt to maintain control of what many would call culture. The "gangsta rap" or more accurately called break dancing, is really incomparable to that of Morse dancing, and you make yourself sound very silly in trying to compare the too. Morse dancing consists of a series of movements and moves which is for the better part executed the same by anyone done properly. Whilst brake dancing

@lawrencejb1 I feel I should expound the importance of my last comment. It's a great and noble thing to respect the cultures, traditions, beliefs, sexual orientation or lack thereof, etcetera of your fellow man, but I feel it's just as important to accept, even expect, criticism. The question isn't how people react to you, but how you react to their reactions, if that makes any sense at all. For instance if folks just kept mum about how goofy morris dancing is (it -is-), then there'd never be...

with out the females the first troupe would only have 3 dancers by the looks of it...hardly enough to dance this. and, oh those swishy hankies...

THAT IS JUST WEIRD

Okay, I 'm leaving... let me know how it ends

"letting" women do it? Silly me, I thought that women could do what they wanted.

@lawrencejb1 Fuck that. You get votes for everything else, though. Props.

@1Siriusmind and wearing hoodie and emo hairstyle without knowing why they do that

Sweet Jenny Jones was in fact a courting dance fron Adderbury not a fertility one and if ladies weren't dancing in mixed and single sex morris sides most live morris would be dead by now so think on!

Hi i am gay aswell can we meet? xxx

hilariously gay :)

@ultramaria blah blah blah

Romanian "Calusarii" , but the slower and boring version. :)

@kramnodd9 I would have to agreed with that statement, yet at the same time I'd still have to say this is pretty fruity dancing. I know if I were English I would not be wary of such a "tradition" disappearing.

Ive never seen folk dancers seem so not into the dance

I can see why English people hate this.

Well this is embarrassing. Some aspects of "culture" are perhaps better forgotten...

LAME