We were taught Morris when I was at school, along with other traditional forms of dance and music. It's so sad that we are losing such wonderful traditions.
@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
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.
Wonderful. Don't let your old English traditions die. You may not be trendy but look where the obsession with gangsta rap has left the inner cities. Too many young people respect the ways of a crowd of foreign drug dealing, murdering scum rather than their own peoples' history. I'll bet no Morris Men took part in the riots!
As incredible as it may sound, this dance has a corespondence in Romania. Basically, here in Romania this dance is inhabited from the ancient Dacians ( ancestors of Romanians ). It's called "Calusari". Absolutely stunning, i can't believe it's so similar in England!
I saw some of this in Eaton's Centre (Victoria, BC Canada) about 15 years ago. I see a lot of comments from people who don't like it. I thought it was really great. But then, my ancestry is English. In Canada we speak a dialect of English, but cultural things like dancing are often from somewhere else. Hell, none of my teachers in school could pronounce my name and it's English. They could,however, pronounce Wldarchuk and Kalinowsky just fine.
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.
Killie.. It's our, traditional dance. sometimes done well but every other nation embraces theirs but not us. But we are happy to take the piss out of ours and let others do so too. I don't often enter into such arguements because people, mainly kids, are scathing and stupid and selfrighteous and you just can't win so this will be it from me. I hope.I will finish by saying that it takes more guts to uphold your (England's) traditon than it does to stand there and take the piss.
Agreed. Morris dancing is laughed at and gets the piss taken out of it, whilst ethnic minorities performing their countries' traditional dances is lauded as a "celebration of diversity".
Anything English is "wrong", in some way. St. George's day is somehow "racist", and Morris dancing can't be called "racist", so it's simply laughed at and mocked instead.
The goal of multiculturalism in this country is the death of English culture.
@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.
Wow, I've never seen red hott babes doin' the morris dancin' before...aaaaaaannnd....I still havn't. Hah! Just kiddin' ladies, you're all as beautiful as the next, even in those goofy pants that make your ass look big...but not -too- big...thus concludes my lecture on the evils of pants, and why dancing is better without them.
@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.
...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...
@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...
@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...
This is an ancient pre-christian Romanian dance brought to Britain by Dacians incorporated in Roman legions. Search for "Calusari Dance" to see the original version :)))
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
might aswell come on here and leave abuse seen as how yous wanks are always on scottish vids being sausages.away and morris dance into the kitchen and put the kettle on ya posh bastards or are yous too busy trying to change the english vocabulary into american you wannabe yank bastards,can give yous examples if yous want ya bunch of sausages that are proud of your history of raping and murdering kids ya paedos.why do yous always say 2 world wars 1 world cup? england never won wars on its own
@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.
@MaybeRumpel yes your country won a world cup albeit through a cheating russian but we are supposed to be united but anything our united country achieves your side of the country just takes credit for it as its own.i.e- two world wars. watch a war documentary,theres quite a few,you will find the narrators and american and so called british soldiers calling britains involvement 'england' quite ignorant and arrogant if you ask me but thats a national trait for you lot,that is all
It seems that originally, this was a ritual of the harvest and fertility, brought and spread by the Romans to all conquered and colonized regions... The costumes are kinda similar with those wore by "calusari", the ones who are dancing a Romanian folk dance, "Calusul", dance which is also similar to this. There are "correspondant" dances in German and French tradition, also.
Morris dancing is great. It builds a community and it's fun for the dancers and the public...
And to you trolls who are making comments about Brits ruling you...
You. Are. Us.
And, you have no fucking traditions America, these people are keeping a thousand maybe more year old tradition alive for generations to come that may enjoy it... And trolls, these guys have a hobby, what do you do? Sit picking your arse on YouTube ?
I love the music but for one reason or another find the whole Morris dancing thing rather irritating. Good luck to them though and I hope the Health & Safety rule makers don't eventually ban them from waving sticks around in public places. I think they should be fenced off though because my beer glass was once knocked over by a Morris dancer bumping into the table.
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I can't believe that the english conquered half the world. No wonder we got sick of this and handed y'all yer ass. That is some seriously gay shite. Cheers from America.
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!
Yes everybody on the media takes the piss out of Morris Dancing. They are tested for it in their job interviews - honest. "Do You Like Morris Dancing" is one of the questions they get asked ... it's TRUE.
Seriously there has been a general attack on all English cultural traditions over the last few years from the same kind of loud voices that dominate PTAs and complain about church bells on a Sunday morning. It's time we fought back - Morris Dancing should be COMPULSORY!
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"
Excellent stuff! First Morris Men I ever saw were at IronBridge in 1977.. loved it! I usually work in the garage to the strains of the Albion Band or more recently Spiers and Boden..great olde-worlde music. Keep this alive.
It's amazing...this actually goes back to pagan fertility rites and festivals...and like the pagans can only be done in conjuctions with drinking a lot of ale!
I must protest the scurrilous and inaccurate comments of this thread!
I am not English, but I grew up in and was educated in England, Oxfordshire and Sussex to be geographical about it. I love England as much as any person could; So I must say to the uneducated reader that these people represent all that is good and therefore ENGLISH in these times of intolerance and bigotry.
I love these Morris as if they were my own family!
Wikipedia says that Morris Dance probably originates from romanian dance "Calusul" (search Calusari on wiki). "Calusul" is a dance with a dual symbolism, both Martial and Religious (pagan). Watch v=VEHLOZudfC8 to see some "Calusarii" action and perhaps what Morris Dance once was.
A Scotsman says: this is sublime. Great to see the ancient traditions being kept alive. Let 'em scoff, we'd be poorer without you guys (and girls), thanks for posting.
Thank you very much for posting. I enjoy folk dancing and folk music from around the world, but haven't the funds to travel and see this in person. With videos like this, I can armchair travel.
If what is being said about English traditions was said about any other ethnic traditions in this country the writer would be hunted down by the PC police and imprisoned for racial abuse. Perhaps you should all show more appreciation for those who are maintaining these traditions rather than just following the media and slagging them off for no good reason.
What an eloquent comment. The first dance is 'Sweet Jenny Jones' from the village of Adderbury danced by Earl of Stamford who are a mixed Cotswold Morris side followed by Bampton Sidestep danced by Manchester Morris men who also dance North west Morris and longsword. If you can't appreciate English traditions I suggest you go back to you cave.
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
this dance is pretty similar with Calusul from Romania, beautiful ancient traditions, amazing!
papanash13 1 month ago
Lovely... long may the ENGLISH culture progress ... respect !!!
happyenjoytime 1 month ago
We were taught Morris when I was at school, along with other traditional forms of dance and music. It's so sad that we are losing such wonderful traditions.
intercomsec 2 months ago
YAYA TOURE brought me here!
TheGoCougar 2 months ago
@TheGoCougar me too lol
znjibil 2 months ago
Well this is embarrassing. Some aspects of "culture" are perhaps better forgotten...
ChindlerOntheRoof 3 months ago
@ChindlerOntheRoof
On your bike.
Go and stuff your "culture" while you're at it.
happyuk06 1 month ago
It's amazing how this traditional dancing is laughed at and mocked, whilst ethnic influences like "gangsta rap" are applauded and seen as "cool".
kramnodd9 3 months ago
@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
Despara5T 3 months ago
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.
Despara5T 3 months ago
LISA SNOWDON
whotaughtyou 3 months ago
This is so gay,why wont he just blow his nose?
legandrydirk 3 months ago
nothing more english than to hear them bells jangle at the country fair love it
pikemancolley 4 months ago
The Irish have Riverdance and the Englis have Morris Dance>GTF
MrBillyhunchback 4 months ago
Wonderful. Don't let your old English traditions die. You may not be trendy but look where the obsession with gangsta rap has left the inner cities. Too many young people respect the ways of a crowd of foreign drug dealing, murdering scum rather than their own peoples' history. I'll bet no Morris Men took part in the riots!
GuTWorm68 5 months ago
Is this normal???
dirgni1588 6 months ago
As incredible as it may sound, this dance has a corespondence in Romania. Basically, here in Romania this dance is inhabited from the ancient Dacians ( ancestors of Romanians ). It's called "Calusari". Absolutely stunning, i can't believe it's so similar in England!
gogoasacenusie 6 months ago
whos the cunt in the white????
minineon1991 6 months ago
I am suprised they can dance like that considerig the amount of anal sex that all of them indulge in.
ScottishCaledonian 6 months ago
We've let far too many traditions go in England, I love it that we still seem to have plenty of Morris Men. Love it - it's England!
Ann3shoes 7 months ago
I saw some of this in Eaton's Centre (Victoria, BC Canada) about 15 years ago. I see a lot of comments from people who don't like it. I thought it was really great. But then, my ancestry is English. In Canada we speak a dialect of English, but cultural things like dancing are often from somewhere else. Hell, none of my teachers in school could pronounce my name and it's English. They could,however, pronounce Wldarchuk and Kalinowsky just fine.
There are Morris dancers in Vancouver as well.
Iwasateeninthe80s 7 months ago
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.
mizofan 8 months ago
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carnutter360 8 months ago
Killie.. It's our, traditional dance. sometimes done well but every other nation embraces theirs but not us. But we are happy to take the piss out of ours and let others do so too. I don't often enter into such arguements because people, mainly kids, are scathing and stupid and selfrighteous and you just can't win so this will be it from me. I hope.I will finish by saying that it takes more guts to uphold your (England's) traditon than it does to stand there and take the piss.
eldendir 9 months ago
@eldendir
Agreed. Morris dancing is laughed at and gets the piss taken out of it, whilst ethnic minorities performing their countries' traditional dances is lauded as a "celebration of diversity".
Anything English is "wrong", in some way. St. George's day is somehow "racist", and Morris dancing can't be called "racist", so it's simply laughed at and mocked instead.
The goal of multiculturalism in this country is the death of English culture.
kramnodd9 3 months ago
@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.
Despara5T 3 months ago
You should try everything at least once in your life, except for incest and Morris dancing.
Charodeiski 9 months ago
mental
jimbobjun 10 months ago
Wow, I've never seen red hott babes doin' the morris dancin' before...aaaaaaannnd....I still havn't. Hah! Just kiddin' ladies, you're all as beautiful as the next, even in those goofy pants that make your ass look big...but not -too- big...thus concludes my lecture on the evils of pants, and why dancing is better without them.
SpookyJohnathan 10 months ago
@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.
SpookyJohnathan 10 months ago
...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...
SpookyJohnathan 10 months ago
@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...
SpookyJohnathan 10 months ago
@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...
SpookyJohnathan 10 months ago
@lawrencejb1 Fuck that. You get votes for everything else, though. Props.
SpookyJohnathan 10 months ago
1. these guys need lightsabers.
2. check out "Calusul" Wallachian Dance. There's gotta be a link between them.
EdwinMarc 11 months ago
lol
oJKBo 11 months ago
This is an ancient pre-christian Romanian dance brought to Britain by Dacians incorporated in Roman legions. Search for "Calusari Dance" to see the original version :)))
unomnacajit11 11 months ago
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
mittROMNEY666 1 year ago
So this is the morris dance. I was wondering what Terry Pratchett was talking about.
LostInConfusion1 1 year ago
This is brilliant!
sillylilme92 1 year ago
might aswell come on here and leave abuse seen as how yous wanks are always on scottish vids being sausages.away and morris dance into the kitchen and put the kettle on ya posh bastards or are yous too busy trying to change the english vocabulary into american you wannabe yank bastards,can give yous examples if yous want ya bunch of sausages that are proud of your history of raping and murdering kids ya paedos.why do yous always say 2 world wars 1 world cup? england never won wars on its own
mrmojohasrisen 1 year ago
@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.
MaybeRumpel 1 year ago
@MaybeRumpel yes your country won a world cup albeit through a cheating russian but we are supposed to be united but anything our united country achieves your side of the country just takes credit for it as its own.i.e- two world wars. watch a war documentary,theres quite a few,you will find the narrators and american and so called british soldiers calling britains involvement 'england' quite ignorant and arrogant if you ask me but thats a national trait for you lot,that is all
mrmojohasrisen 1 year ago
glad to see people holding onto their traditions....Butterworth, UK composer, was an enthusiastic Morris dancer
windstorm1000 1 year ago
It seems that originally, this was a ritual of the harvest and fertility, brought and spread by the Romans to all conquered and colonized regions... The costumes are kinda similar with those wore by "calusari", the ones who are dancing a Romanian folk dance, "Calusul", dance which is also similar to this. There are "correspondant" dances in German and French tradition, also.
Mar1vs 1 year ago
Morris dancing is great. It builds a community and it's fun for the dancers and the public...
And to you trolls who are making comments about Brits ruling you...
You. Are. Us.
And, you have no fucking traditions America, these people are keeping a thousand maybe more year old tradition alive for generations to come that may enjoy it... And trolls, these guys have a hobby, what do you do? Sit picking your arse on YouTube ?
squirt244 1 year ago
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joshuanesbit 1 year ago
@joshuanesbit Yes, it's as close to the national dance of England you can get.
TheAnn2shoes 1 year ago
That's my mate Ned with the specs, and my other mate Esther with the long grey hair. Don't they just look smashing?
ZyklonBunny88 1 year ago
Bhangraman!! save our asses...Morris da dancerwala
kingofvicecityjungle 1 year ago
I'm not gay but tell you what......
They are clearly not gonna start WW3.
Actually, maybe I am gay.
Anyway, I like it. Peace love and understanding.
Whack whack whack your sticks.......
Now have to go to Dino jnr
Always liked perky breasts on a woman and a very hairy man.
:))))))))
cockhead1000 1 year ago
Rock on guys. Keep the tradition alive and be proud of it. Rock on.
verticalsmurf 1 year ago 10
I love the music but for one reason or another find the whole Morris dancing thing rather irritating. Good luck to them though and I hope the Health & Safety rule makers don't eventually ban them from waving sticks around in public places. I think they should be fenced off though because my beer glass was once knocked over by a Morris dancer bumping into the table.
MrVideoRater1 1 year ago
Hi i am gay aswell can we meet? xxx
AcidC4 1 year ago
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I can't believe that the english conquered half the world. No wonder we got sick of this and handed y'all yer ass. That is some seriously gay shite. Cheers from America.
coonazz98 1 year ago
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how gay is this shit makes me ashamed to be a brit
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carnutter360 1 year ago
We should do this at England rugby games. The all blacks have the Haka...we should drop this on them..scare em shitless.
ManlnCognito 1 year ago 4
@ManlnCognito HA HA HA! that's the best line i've heard all year.
bjnwright 1 year ago
I love this...wish I were there...what fun! Thanks John!!
madbawden 1 year ago
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!
richardsfolkmusic 1 year ago
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Alllaaahuuu akbaarrr la ilahe illallah muhamedunrasullallah !!!
no more homosex when we r rule uk!
Alllaaahuuu Akbaarrr!!!!
ultramaria 1 year ago
@ultramaria blah blah blah
flemwad 1 year ago
Yes everybody on the media takes the piss out of Morris Dancing. They are tested for it in their job interviews - honest. "Do You Like Morris Dancing" is one of the questions they get asked ... it's TRUE.
Seriously there has been a general attack on all English cultural traditions over the last few years from the same kind of loud voices that dominate PTAs and complain about church bells on a Sunday morning. It's time we fought back - Morris Dancing should be COMPULSORY!
RatherLargeAllan 2 years ago 8
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"
freddieprize 2 years ago
@freddieprize
This dance isnt western its MOORISH
I.e. eastern
1Siriusmind 2 years ago
@1Siriusmind i mean the other culture like they dressed like a punk rocker even they don't
freddieprize 2 years ago
@1Siriusmind and wearing hoodie and emo hairstyle without knowing why they do that
freddieprize 2 years ago
song's quite catchy :D
hugehalofan1 2 years ago
this looks like Romanian Calusarii!!!!!!!
adiora 2 years ago
More publicity should be given to this ancient martial art from Albion. Down with kendo, long live morris!
mwingereza 2 years ago
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....
LordSia13 2 years ago
Excellent stuff! First Morris Men I ever saw were at IronBridge in 1977.. loved it! I usually work in the garage to the strains of the Albion Band or more recently Spiers and Boden..great olde-worlde music. Keep this alive.
Paudman 2 years ago
It's amazing...this actually goes back to pagan fertility rites and festivals...and like the pagans can only be done in conjuctions with drinking a lot of ale!
Optimusnorm 2 years ago
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!
Donnachie51 2 years ago
nice. i would probably get my knuckles rapped at some point. great job.
196Jonesy 2 years ago
P.S. and actually, I think this group is quite good at the Morris dancing. xo
avacuppa 2 years ago
I love it, I absolutely love it, the whole Morris dancing bit, I love it. xo
avacuppa 2 years ago
we got 6 young people danceing well here. Thanks for this, sides with that many youngsters are sadly a rarity
brinwins 2 years ago
loool I always here people take the piss out of morris dancing, this is the first time i've seen it and i totally understand why now. lmao
RobTrain09 2 years ago
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I must protest the scurrilous and inaccurate comments of this thread!
I am not English, but I grew up in and was educated in England, Oxfordshire and Sussex to be geographical about it. I love England as much as any person could; So I must say to the uneducated reader that these people represent all that is good and therefore ENGLISH in these times of intolerance and bigotry.
I love these Morris as if they were my own family!
:0)
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Wikipedia says that Morris Dance probably originates from romanian dance "Calusul" (search Calusari on wiki). "Calusul" is a dance with a dual symbolism, both Martial and Religious (pagan). Watch v=VEHLOZudfC8 to see some "Calusarii" action and perhaps what Morris Dance once was.
UrsubUtu 2 years ago
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UrsubUtu 2 years ago
Why let vegetarian lesbian wood carvers dance as morrismen!
kcufdam 2 years ago
Mad as badgers the lot o them.
kcufdam 2 years ago
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CUNTS
lukecbr78 2 years ago
Well because it's a MALE FERTILITY dance. Women don't have 'seed' to spread and fertilize. *rolls eyes*
It's idiotic letting women do it.
Phoenixbbb 2 years ago
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ruthbibby 2 years ago
"letting" women do it? Silly me, I thought that women could do what they wanted.
ruthbibby 2 years ago 2
Love it. Keep the tradition going!
drazpaz 2 years ago
A Scotsman says: this is sublime. Great to see the ancient traditions being kept alive. Let 'em scoff, we'd be poorer without you guys (and girls), thanks for posting.
Killie03 2 years ago 17
Great video, feel free to post your vids on Cotswolds Connect!
Cotswoldsconnect 2 years ago
Keep this tradition alive. Serch on youtube "Calusul" .
Probyzantinum 3 years ago
This is personally not my cup of tea, but I do enjoy watching people having fun. Cheers to all!
mongorich 3 years ago
fucking brilliant well done, your all my heros every1 at scool picks on me but i luv it thank you xx
mrwonderful111 3 years ago
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carnutter360 3 years ago
haha!! i just heard about this on NPRs "wait wait don't tell me". Good luck finding new recruits
danimal519 3 years ago
Haha That's exactly why I looked it up too :P
plutogirlgenius 3 years ago
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to be a morris dancer you must not be circumcised, YOU NEED TO BE A COMPLETE PRICK
22mail22 3 years ago
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carnutter360 3 years ago
Thank you very much for posting. I enjoy folk dancing and folk music from around the world, but haven't the funds to travel and see this in person. With videos like this, I can armchair travel.
hdkingsbury 3 years ago
I thoroughly enjoyed this, and thank you for posting it!
MadLizzy1 3 years ago
If what is being said about English traditions was said about any other ethnic traditions in this country the writer would be hunted down by the PC police and imprisoned for racial abuse. Perhaps you should all show more appreciation for those who are maintaining these traditions rather than just following the media and slagging them off for no good reason.
newsmanface 3 years ago
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WTF R U ON BOUT ID BE HUNTED DOWN? U R ONE CLUELES MUPPET. HOW THE FUCK AM I GOIN TO BE HUNTED DOWN?
Fuck niggers. fuck pakis, fuck rag heads, fuck baby p FUCK MORRIS DANCING. I HOPE U ALL DIE
Irishsam 3 years ago
I think you've probably exhausted your limited vocabulary with this little outburst. I hope you are cosy in the sewer that you occupy.
newsmanface 3 years ago
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oh so what u think ur bigger in the game then me coz u no a few more words. lough ur self bitch, u dont no what u chatting bout.
ur a fuking 2 bit joe daki.
fuking cunt,. sux ur dead kids
Irishsam 3 years ago
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!
fodsaks 3 years ago 2
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WHAT A GAY DAY TO BE LOOKING GAY .. lmfao @ the english !!!
andrew1711dalmeny 3 years ago
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all morris dancers should be killed. WHAT THE FUK IS THIS FUCKING SHIT?
Irishsam 3 years ago
What an eloquent comment. The first dance is 'Sweet Jenny Jones' from the village of Adderbury danced by Earl of Stamford who are a mixed Cotswold Morris side followed by Bampton Sidestep danced by Manchester Morris men who also dance North west Morris and longsword. If you can't appreciate English traditions I suggest you go back to you cave.
newsmanface 3 years ago
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...
lookinglassalice 3 years ago
I know I'm an American but this makes me laugh. I never realized Monty Python's Fish dance was a Morris Dance.
borimirtheboring 3 years ago
a great performance from earl of stamford here. have seen this team a few times now and always been impressed with how well they perform their dances
carnutter360 3 years ago
ahhhhhhh....culture
TomCharnock 3 years ago
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Nothing against the ladies ... but they shouldn't dance the morris!
TonyMarco1948 3 years ago
That would be the view of you and the other 5 old men still in the Morris Ring would it?
Sammyboy72 3 years ago
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
Alzorthegreat 3 years ago
Good old fashioned entertainment. it doesn't get any better than this. Bring back conscription and public flogging. Keep those rods up boys
badgerbaiter76 3 years ago
It IS Earl of Stamford
trombonetom 3 years ago
My favourite Morris Youtube.
stevemills00 3 years ago
it's jason!!
duckmansimon 4 years ago
... I thought it was Earl of Stamford
Morris4beer 4 years ago
jason is there tho, the fella at the back, the video response i put on is me doing a double jig with him
duckmansimon 4 years ago