Wow, acid flashbacks, need more coffee stat.
Haha nice! As if Morris dancers werenât weird enough on their own.
What part was weird?
Good stuff!
Itâs good but itâs no Safety Dance.
Flashbacks to Nickelodeon and Children Of The Stones.
Turville, Buckinghamshire, which is where they filmed The Vicar of Dibley, Went the Day Well and some of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
That was really cool.
Iâm wondering if the dancers had to learn a new dance pattern made up of traditional moves, or if the song was constructed around the rhythm of the dance?
The Morris dance is common to all inhabited worlds in the multiverse.
It is danced under blue skies to celebrate the quickening of the soil and under bare stars because itâs springtime and with any luck the carbon dioxide will unfreeze again. The imperative is felt by deep-sea beings who have never seen the sun and urban humans whose only connection with the cycles of nature is that their Volvo once ran over a sheep.
It is danced innocently by raggedy-bearded young mathematicians to an inexpert accordion rendering of âMrs Widgeryâs Lodgerâ and ruthlessly by such as the Ninja Morris Men of New Ankh, who can do strange and terrible things with a simple handkerchief and a bell.
And it is never danced properly.
Iâm pretty sure that video was filmed just outside ScarfolkâŠ
I got chills and I havenât even played the video.
And Iâm not going to.
found it
this was pretty good! never saw it on Nick, just endless Black Beauty re-runs and Tomorrow People. kind of put me in the mind of those old Susan Cooper books I was talking about recently.
#quickening
Wait. Iâve forgotten what weâre talking about.
Q: How did it get burned?
#A: BEES
Letâs not forget that face recognition software doesnât work on Morris dancers
Iâm an anglophile, Iâve hung out in Wales (wonderful country, going back), but there are two things I canât stand.
The Archers and Morris dancing.
A lot of it looks like traditional moves, and as long as the songâs got a fairly regular rhythm, it should be easy enough to build the dance around it. (Some parts arenât quite traditional, like all of them dancing out of that ancient red structure that I think was once known as a âphone boothâ. More seriously, I havenât seem Morris dancers do backflips, but I wouldnât be surprised if theyâd find a way to work it in if they could.)
One thing that makes it easier for them is that itâs pretty common for a Morris dance to have most of the dancers doing a figure (like the two lines of four dancers they used a lot) and then one or two others doing a âclownâ function dancing in or around them or running out to the audience waving rubber chickens or whatever. The figure with the horse head and the cow skull on a stick are the kinds of things you might traditionally have. I havenât seen the figures dancing in the straw costumes before, but they feel quite appropriate for a fall âJohn Barleycornâ thing (though not really for May Day.)
