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Morris dancers with handkerchiefs in York. 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, their shoes or both.
Border morris dancers, White Ladies Aston. 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 of the Morris dance tradition.
The Hong Kong Morris (Chinese: 香港莫利斯舞蹈團, Cantonese pronunciation: Heung Gong Mok Lee Si Mo Dou Tuen, literally the Hong Kong Morris Dance Platoon) is an English morris dancing team or side founded in Hong Kong in 1974. The side now has two chapters, the Hong Kong Morris and the Hong Kong (UK) Morris, colloquially known as The ...
Younger, more inclusive Morris teams tell the BBC their tradition is having a "cultural moment".
Some historical English Morris dance "sides" (teams) had hobby horses associated with them, but the popularity of such animals with morris sides today probably dates from the early years of the morris revival, when Ilmington Morris created a tourney horse, ridden by Sam Bennett for many years.
Dancing around the midsummer pole, in Åmmeberg, Sweden A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals , around which a maypole dance often takes place. The festivals may occur on 1 May or Pentecost ( Whitsun ), although in some countries it is instead erected during Midsummer (20–26 June).
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