These guys are superb. Great music, outfits and dancing. Please continue to keep English culture and identity alive in the face of attempts to extinguish it.
Yes, please preserve your English legacy.... we are very much connected with you by our common Anglo-Saxon bloodline.... I've been many times in England and I love people and country deeply... 🏴🇩🇪🌹❤️
typical English weather i see. Ive lived in China for years and havent lived in the UK since 2008 but this video has everything i need to remember home. The dancers, the pavement, the burger king, the red bus, the church steeple, the 60's architecture in the background and the wet weather all in one video. perfect. looks cold but i know most of them wont be feeling it.
Charming and delightful. These guys are so talented and clever. Bucket list item: get on a plane, stand in the rain, and watch these fellows for hours.
Beautifully choreographed, loved it - well danced and well played. Would have been wonderful to see this from a birds eye view - maybe drone footage will improve this ... 💯💯💯✔✔✔👍👍👍🎼🎹📻🎵🎵💕🎶
Please teach the folk dances like this in college to the history majors, folk costume and textile majors, agreeculture, every majors connected to the roots...
Good formations and a lot more cloggy than other groups I’ve seen. I'd love to see what they could do with staves. If nothing else, a morris dance should make you smile; sometimes the comedic parodies are difficult to distinguish from the real thing.
Earlsdon Morris Performing at Jockey Morris 40th annual Plugh Tour of Birmingham City Centre. Earlsdon are very good but it's bit early to say the best dance of 2020.
Serious the English really should do this dance as their response to the All Blacks haka, chur Tumeke!!! polynesians also have similar dances to this the movements are a bit different but it still depends on footwork, rhythm, cohesion and they also have stick dances as well, or axes/spears/machetes, fire. I have seen Morris dances where they do similar things with the sticks that they do in some polynesian stick dances where they twirl them and pass them between each other and tap out a beat with them while they do it, very dexterous.
It'd be a bit weird. The Haka is a war dance while Morris dancing is a ritual meant to celebrate and promote fertility in the crops and in women at the coming of Springtime (similar to a Maypole). It'd be like responding to a man with a gun by ploughing a field.
I wish this is what people thought of when they think of the Uk, not chavs or road men. Funny story when I was 3, we were in Harrogate and the local Morris dancers were performing and I tried to join in. Seeing as I could barely walk I wasn’t very impressing however they were and I still remember it.
You expect them all to be grinning like idiots? It's bloody hard work. Perhaps you expect men running a marathon or sprinting over hurdles to be grinning too.
An ancient English traditional dance form. It has various styles, this is North West complete with clogs. More info at morrisminors.wordpress.com/morris-history/ if you are interested. You can see the other styles on you tube too. Some styles have parallels with continental dances, especially the Basque, Spanish and Portuguese.
@@class87srule An interesting thought, Ian. The reality is that the styles, named for their areas of origin, are pretty well mixed up geographically these days - a bit like Yorkshire Terriers and Great Danes. We have plenty of people rapper dancing after a hard day down the Chelsea pit and folks doing Lancashire clog in Camden town, probably followed by a Danish pilsner and an Indian curry!
Rumour has it that Morris dancing was started by Scots men who couldn’t dance a highland reel it spread to England during the Anglo-Scottish Wars when Highlanders with short kilts and no knickers came prancing down the streets of Carlisle with bells tied to one leg , hence the common expression, pull the other leg, it’s got bells on it 😂
"Pull the other one" likely to have originated from court jesters costumes and their role. I think you will find that Morris was mentioned earlier in documents than before these wars.
Only poor Nigel's could watch this without rolling about the floor laughing. Grown men with flowers in their hats, wee tinkly bells on their ankles. Prancing and poncing about in the street shaking wee sticks with ribbons at each other. Absolutely hilarious.
@@Dryhten1801 And judging by the name and the term 'wee' he is of the Scotch persuasion. You know - one of those strange characters who live in that benighted land to the north of beautiful England. The men wear skirts and prance and ponce about over two pointy implements laid on the ground - all the time waving their limp wrists in the air. Absolutely hilarious!
@@ianmacewan9416 Hi Ian, the home countries which comprise Great Britain and/or the united Kingdom which are two different definitions of the countries of these islands can be a bit confusing particularly when you take into account that before the 1900's people used to refer to Britain as England but since the rise of nationalist opinion in Scotland and Wales the demarcation has become more pronounced. To say "Britain is England" would upset quite a few Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish. From my point of view all I am concerned with is the loss of "English" as opposed to Scots and Welsh etc culture which is gradually dying out in our multicultural society. If you talk to children today they seem to know nothing of English country dancing as well as Morris and also English folk songs and jigs. I mention jigs because due to my own ignorance I always thought that jigs were entirely Irish in origin but I have discovered that the earliest mention of Jigs is from the 1400's and mentions English jigs. No offence was intended from me to those who associate themselves with being British only. Best wishes to you on your journey in life. Frank
@@frankblackwell3804 The word "Braitain" is what the Romans called the land they conquered South of their wall. The land North of that they named mostly Caledonia. This is a fact. The English establishment decided to call the whole island Great Britain about 300 years ago, in an attempt to swamp the national identity of Scots. This has worked on the more ignorant and brainwashed of those born in Scotland. It does not work on the majority of us. I don't care who gets upset at the truth and facts. If anyone born in Scotland accepts what a foreign people brand them, that is their problem but they are essentially calling themselves English and they might as well admit it.
@@frankblackwell3804 So you were correct. Morris dancing is English and British at the same time. It is only by default and English ethnocentrism that Scotland is associated with that name. We don't like the association one bit.
@@ianmacewan9416 Just a postscript. I think it brilliant that the Scots and the Welsh and Northern Irish are preserving their culture. I applaud it and wish we English would learn from it.
I have several questions: 1) what is the point of Morris dancing supposed to be? 2) why are there only men in it? 3) why do they all get through [virtually] all of it with wooden faces as if they were at a funeral? 4) why don't they at least laugh along the way at the comedy value of it, when they know that's what everyone else is going to do with it? 5) HOW in Christ's name is this our most famous dance export to the world?
1)it’s fun and traditional, many people enjoy watching or being in the dances 2) this is a men’s only side, there are lots of women’s only sides and lots of mixed sides, it’s not just men 3) there dancing a very tiring and sometimes painful dance in the rain, they are also focusing so can’t be expected to smile constantly 4) im not sure what you mean by comedy value, this is north west, other styles have comedy value like some rapper or cotswold sides but this isn’t supposed to be funny and people don’t find it funny unless they are mocking it 5) it’s just a traditional dance, it’s not especially famous
@@WomanOnTopOnline What? Not much done? A, next May Day (Covid-19 aside), go to Rochester, or Brighton, or Cerne Abbas, or Minehead, or -- a score of British towns -- and you'll see dozens of morris teams gathered from all over the country. We dance not just to keep tradition alive (some traditions are better dead) but because dancing is fun, sociable, energising and creative. More info on the websites of the Morris Ring, the Morris Federation and Open Morris. And tons of photos to prove my claim!
@@annhinchliffe8314 Yeah honestly I see morris dancing almost every time I go to a small town in summer - great in devon and cornwall too. I'm glad it's not dying out, and although some people laugh at it I think its beautiful that people can just get together and dance like this :)
There are other Morris dancing groups that have more fun and they do it with a bit more gusto.With the meaning behind it, I do prefer it done that way!
@@Bella-fz9fy Depends which form of morris they are dancing. This is North West morris which is more processional - less leaping around. I rather like it.
@@vanfernandesarquiteto And it had to be the idiot RelativeBadger. Which English traditional dance does he refer to? The various Morris dances of which the video is an example of the North West tradition? Yorkshire Longsword dances? NE Rapper sword dances? The Molly dances of East Anglia? Clog dancing? The English Country Dances that can be seen in just about any film adaptation of a Jane Austen novel - and which were enthusiastically taken up by the French, Scots, Irish and Americans? The English dance tradition is second to none.
These guys are superb. Great music, outfits and dancing. Please continue to keep English culture and identity alive in the face of attempts to extinguish it.
So encouraging to see the younger men in there.. Hopefully this tradition will carry on.
Keeping all that's best of our traditions alive.Great job guys .
Keep that tradition alive please.
Blessed are the clog makers
God bless our lovely English culture, long may this tradition live on! 🏴
Yes, please preserve your English legacy.... we are very much connected with you by our common Anglo-Saxon bloodline.... I've been many times in England and I love people and country deeply... 🏴🇩🇪🌹❤️
fantastic should never let this tradition go , amazing
Well done lads... Keep up the good work..
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typical English weather i see.
Ive lived in China for years and havent lived in the UK since 2008 but this video has everything i need to remember home. The dancers, the pavement, the burger king, the red bus, the church steeple, the 60's architecture in the background and the wet weather all in one video. perfect. looks cold but i know most of them wont be feeling it.
STEREOtypical. To check the typical one, wikipedia is the best source.
Wikipedia and ‘best source’ dont belong in the same sentence in positive context
Great to see this,I love it. Bravo fellas!
Great calf workout. Great job, lads.
Charming and delightful. These guys are so talented and clever. Bucket list item: get on a plane, stand in the rain, and watch these fellows for hours.
Those hats are lit!! they are on par with head lei's imho.
It doesn't get any better than this..pure perfection..I love it..Thank you for the upload .Cheers Jackdaw
Striking colors and outfits combined with style and elegance in dancing; how lovely British!
English, for heavens sake please don't associate Scots with this in any way. It is beyond embarrassing.
@@ianmacewan9416 I got it; thank you for the correction.
Totally awesome. Great dancing.
Earlsdon Morris dancing; the tune is British Grenadiers.
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There will always be an England when you protect your wonderful traditions.... We love you cousins... 🏴🇩🇪🌹❤️
Thank you, we are Germanic brothers
Excellent !. Beautifully done. Rock solid music too, lovely lilt . Many thanks .
Beautifully choreographed, loved it - well danced and well played. Would have been wonderful to see this from a birds eye view - maybe drone footage will improve this ...
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Amazing work!
Can you imagine other civilisations built the Pyramids and Taj Mahal and this is all these people can be proud of.
Please teach the folk dances like this in college to the history majors, folk costume and textile majors, agreeculture, every majors connected to the roots...
Great jig this one, this is my friend Baniel’s favourite - great recommendation.
Excellent sounds great performance 3 melodians really well played
That is a great video, of a great morris dance team.
Obviously no one has told them :-) completely oblivious as to how ridiculous this looks.
@@ianmacewan9416
And do you know what?
They couldn't give a toss as to what you or anyone else thinks.
@@Wotsitorlabart That's what I said. Obviously.
I was there
À year ago 😭❤️
bruh
Good formations and a lot more cloggy than other groups I’ve seen. I'd love to see what they could do with staves. If nothing else, a morris dance should make you smile; sometimes the comedic parodies are difficult to distinguish from the real thing.
Earlsdon Morris Performing at Jockey Morris 40th annual Plugh Tour of Birmingham City Centre. Earlsdon are very good but it's bit early to say the best dance of 2020.
From Coventry.
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Wonderful!!!
👏👏 from Delhi.
Excellent
Ve-ry gooooood . . .but WHERE are th'WIMMIN??
Merry Christmas to us all, in Merry England
obviously was once a fierce martial art
once? still is! those are some fierce techniques hidden in there
@@kevlarchicken hehe lol
Very cool 😎
Serious the English really should do this dance as their response to the All Blacks haka, chur Tumeke!!! polynesians also have similar dances to this the movements are a bit different but it still depends on footwork, rhythm, cohesion and they also have stick dances as well, or axes/spears/machetes, fire. I have seen Morris dances where they do similar things with the sticks that they do in some polynesian stick dances where they twirl them and pass them between each other and tap out a beat with them while they do it, very dexterous.
It'd be a bit weird. The Haka is a war dance while Morris dancing is a ritual meant to celebrate and promote fertility in the crops and in women at the coming of Springtime (similar to a Maypole).
It'd be like responding to a man with a gun by ploughing a field.
@@joshuabruce9599
Morris dancing has absolutely nothing to do with fertility in crops or women and neither does the Maypole.
If you want something to counter the Maori Haka, check out the Beltane Border Morris. They do Morris Dancing that's on steroids 😁
Good idea. The Kiwis would never get off their backs laughing.
Where's the part where The Fool jumps in the middle, weaving in betwixt the other dancers? Always being just in the place where the others aren't?
That happens in a different style of Morris Dancing.
Sorry but Beltane Border Morris are the best and most vibrant ones I have ever seen.
Morris Dancing on steroids 😁
Well done, you're a conforming modernist
@@Dryhten1801 Where does all that ghoulish-looking stuff come from?
Based
I wish this is what people thought of when they think of the Uk, not chavs or road men.
Funny story when I was 3, we were in Harrogate and the local Morris dancers were performing and I tried to join in. Seeing as I could barely walk I wasn’t very impressing however they were and I still remember it.
England is the UK then?
It's very good, but they don't really seem to be having much fun with it
You expect them all to be grinning like idiots? It's bloody hard work. Perhaps you expect men running a marathon or sprinting over hurdles to be grinning too.
Is there a meaning to this particular Moris dance?
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Filmed in January 2020...well, never mind what came next. That bit doesn't matter now, after all. 🙂
What came next was most likely a pub visit, LOL.
Dance Holiwood Hindi , good performa , You know Dance underwear 😊
Dose anyone know of any reliable sources to study English folk cultures?🤔
EFDSS
Europa Sun .........Carolyn is the best on this subject
The English Folk Dance and Song Society.
Can learn a whole lot online.
All good stuff, of course, but I'd be a bit more careful about throwing superlatives around in your titles like that.
What exactly us the Morris.. Where do the traditions lie? My gran used to take me to see it.
An ancient English traditional dance form. It has various styles, this is North West complete with clogs. More info at morrisminors.wordpress.com/morris-history/ if you are interested. You can see the other styles on you tube too. Some styles have parallels with continental dances, especially the Basque, Spanish and Portuguese.
@@morrisminors9750 I find it unusual for a Midlands side to perform NW. Surely, Cotswold would be more authentic.
@@class87srule An interesting thought, Ian. The reality is that the styles, named for their areas of origin, are pretty well mixed up geographically these days - a bit like Yorkshire Terriers and Great Danes. We have plenty of people rapper dancing after a hard day down the Chelsea pit and folks doing Lancashire clog in Camden town, probably followed by a Danish pilsner and an Indian curry!
Rumour has it that Morris dancing was started by Scots men who couldn’t dance a highland reel it spread to England during the Anglo-Scottish Wars when Highlanders with short kilts and no knickers came prancing down the streets of Carlisle with bells tied to one leg , hence the common expression, pull the other leg, it’s got bells on it 😂
"Pull the other one" likely to have originated from court jesters costumes and their role. I think you will find that Morris was mentioned earlier in documents than before these wars.
Oh dearie me. Wee Nigel is green.
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Who? Where? What's the event??
İt was in Birmingham it was NOt an event just a show
Now I see where crip walk came from
Only poor Nigel's could watch this without rolling about the floor laughing. Grown men with flowers in their hats, wee tinkly bells on their ankles. Prancing and poncing about in the street shaking wee sticks with ribbons at each other. Absolutely hilarious.
Interesting to hear..homophobia from a leftist.
@@Dryhten1801
And judging by the name and the term 'wee' he is of the Scotch persuasion.
You know - one of those strange characters who live in that benighted land to the north of beautiful England.
The men wear skirts and prance and ponce about over two pointy implements laid on the ground - all the time waving their limp wrists in the air.
Absolutely hilarious!
You really hate white people huh? Vile Scot manipulated by globalist propaganda.
That is definitely one theory but please... Morris dancing is NOT British ... it is English.
Britain is England.
@@ianmacewan9416 Hi Ian, the home countries which comprise Great Britain and/or the united Kingdom which are two different definitions of the countries of these islands can be a bit confusing particularly when you take into account that before the 1900's people used to refer to Britain as England but since the rise of nationalist opinion in Scotland and Wales the demarcation has become more pronounced. To say "Britain is England" would upset quite a few Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish. From my point of view all I am concerned with is the loss of "English" as opposed to Scots and Welsh etc culture which is gradually dying out in our multicultural society. If you talk to children today they seem to know nothing of English country dancing as well as Morris and also English folk songs and jigs. I mention jigs because due to my own ignorance I always thought that jigs were entirely Irish in origin but I have discovered that the earliest mention of Jigs is from the 1400's and mentions English jigs. No offence was intended from me to those who associate themselves with being British only. Best wishes to you on your journey in life. Frank
@@frankblackwell3804 The word "Braitain" is what the Romans called the land they conquered South of their wall. The land North of that they named mostly Caledonia. This is a fact. The English establishment decided to call the whole island Great Britain about 300 years ago, in an attempt to swamp the national identity of Scots. This has worked on the more ignorant and brainwashed of those born in Scotland. It does not work on the majority of us. I don't care who gets upset at the truth and facts. If anyone born in Scotland accepts what a foreign people brand them, that is their problem but they are essentially calling themselves English and they might as well admit it.
@@frankblackwell3804 So you were correct. Morris dancing is English and British at the same time. It is only by default and English ethnocentrism that Scotland is associated with that name. We don't like the association one bit.
@@ianmacewan9416 Just a postscript. I think it brilliant that the Scots and the Welsh and Northern Irish are preserving their culture. I applaud it and wish we English would learn from it.
I have several questions: 1) what is the point of Morris dancing supposed to be? 2) why are there only men in it? 3) why do they all get through [virtually] all of it with wooden faces as if they were at a funeral? 4) why don't they at least laugh along the way at the comedy value of it, when they know that's what everyone else is going to do with it? 5) HOW in Christ's name is this our most famous dance export to the world?
1)it’s fun and traditional, many people enjoy watching or being in the dances 2) this is a men’s only side, there are lots of women’s only sides and lots of mixed sides, it’s not just men 3) there dancing a very tiring and sometimes painful dance in the rain, they are also focusing so can’t be expected to smile constantly 4) im not sure what you mean by comedy value, this is north west, other styles have comedy value like some rapper or cotswold sides but this isn’t supposed to be funny and people don’t find it funny unless they are mocking it 5) it’s just a traditional dance, it’s not especially famous
@@quph0ria617 to be fair I understand what you say and I shouldn't have been so judgemental and negative. Thanks for helping me understand better.
There are many styles of Morris Dancing. This is rather a staid performance. Check out Beltane Border Morris for something more lively.
@@PLuMUK54Will do thanks for the recommendation!
@@PLuMUK54 disgusting
What is this?
It’s called Morris Dancing, an ancient English dance. Not really done much anymore, nice to see people keeping the tradition alive though.
@@WomanOnTopOnline What? Not much done? A, next May Day (Covid-19 aside), go to Rochester, or Brighton, or Cerne Abbas, or Minehead, or -- a score of British towns -- and you'll see dozens of morris teams gathered from all over the country. We dance not just to keep tradition alive (some traditions are better dead) but because dancing is fun, sociable, energising and creative. More info on the websites of the Morris Ring, the Morris Federation and Open Morris. And tons of photos to prove my claim!
@@annhinchliffe8314 Yeah honestly I see morris dancing almost every time I go to a small town in summer - great in devon and cornwall too. I'm glad it's not dying out, and although some people laugh at it I think its beautiful that people can just get together and dance like this :)
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Tried to watch and listen with an open mind, but compared with dance from other cultures, isn’t it quite joyless?
No.
There are other Morris dancing groups that have more fun and they do it with a bit more gusto.With the meaning behind it, I do prefer it done that way!
@@Bella-fz9fy
Depends which form of morris they are dancing.
This is North West morris which is more processional - less leaping around.
I rather like it.
@@Wotsitorlabart Still prefer the faster,leaping kind,but fair enough!😆
Check out the Beltane Border Morris for Morris Dancing on Steroids 😁
They seriously just look German haha 😂
Blackamoor dance
No.
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I bet most of these dancers work for the local council
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Hehehehehehe
England must have the worst traditional dancing in the world - There's more movement in sitting down with a pie. This is beyond an embarrassment.
Someone had to say this.
@@vanfernandesarquiteto
And it had to be the idiot RelativeBadger.
Which English traditional dance does he refer to?
The various Morris dances of which the video is an example of the North West tradition?
Yorkshire Longsword dances?
NE Rapper sword dances?
The Molly dances of East Anglia?
Clog dancing?
The English Country Dances that can be seen in just about any film adaptation of a Jane Austen novel - and which were enthusiastically taken up by the French, Scots, Irish and Americans?
The English dance tradition is second to none.
Invent a new one. And no flowery hats please!
Jig Dancing has english origin . When Irish dance it is actually English dance
Check out Beltane Border Morris for a more lively performance.