Cotswold morris (3)
Dances are usually performed with sticks, handkerchiefs, or clapping and in sets of six dancers.
Or as a jig - a showpiece dance performed solo, or as a double jig for two or more dancers. You can see an example of a Single Jig by clicking on the video tab at the top of this panel.
Comic dances, broom dances, and bacca pipes jigs (a dance for one or two people, performed over crossed clay pipes) are occasionally seen, and some dances include singing.
Champion jig dancers: Dom Moss, Hammersmith Morris Men & Ben Moss, Great Western Morris
5000 Morris Dancers, Southbank, London, 2010
Photo: Urban 75
Media
Video:
Single Jig, performed by Ben Moss at The Full English Showcase Conference, Town Hall Birmingham, 25 June 2014
Download:
mp4(8.36 MB)
