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2016 Grenoside Boxing Day dance. The long sword dance (or longsword dance [notes 1]) is a hilt-and-point sword dance recorded mainly in Yorkshire, England.The dances are usually performed around Christmas time and were believed to derive from a rite performed to enable a fruitful harvest.
The crossed weapons in the traditional sword dance is not limited to basket-hilted broadswords. Dancing around crossed Lochaber axes is mentioned as an older version of the dance. [16] The Broadsword indicated the basket-hilted sword worn by officers of Highland Regiments and sometimes miscalled the claymore, which is a large two-handed weapon.
One of these ships, ET 10, was built by the Lytham Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, at their Lytham St Annes, Lancashire yard in 1918, and renamed Sword Dance on transfer. [1] [5] Sword Dance was 130 ft (39.6 m) long between perpendiculars, with a beam of 26 ft 3 in (8.00 m) and a draught of 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m). Displacement was 265 long ...
Dancing England was a series of showcase traditional dance concerts held at the Derby Assembly Rooms from 1979 to 1987. They were devised and curated by Phil Heaton and John Shaw, members of the Black Cap Sword Dancers, and two very notable characters on the Nottingham and Derby folk and dance scene of the 1970s.
The traditional dance that they perform had died out by the start of the twentieth century but was revived in 1923. The team were expelled from the Morris Ring for allowing women to be trained in the art of the dance, the tradition being that it is a male-only dance. The Goathland Plough Stots dance is recognised as one of the oldest in England ...
The Newcastle Kingsmen's dance begins with the Tommy character singing the "Calling On Song". The Betty character then joins in halfway through the dance - this delayed entrance (which is unusual in rapper sword teams) allows time for the Tommy to work through a repertoire of jokes, before the appearance of the Betty.
Rapper sword (also known as short sword dance) is a variation of sword dance unique to Northumberland and County Durham. It emerged from the pit villages of Tyneside and Wearside, where miners first performed the tradition. [1] [2] The dance requires five performers who co-ordinate themselves while using "rapper swords" made from flexible steel.
The Dancing England Rapper Tournament (DERT) [1] is a continuation of the most significant rapper sword dance competitions that were held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the centre of the coalfields where the dance originated. The modern annual weekend event, held at different venues in the UK, brings together rapper teams and sword dancers ...