Border morris
Border morris dancing is from the English counties on the Welsh border: Shropshire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire. The dances are usually performed in setsof four to eight dancers.
Nowadays the style is wild and exuberant, performed almost at a run, with the dancers whooping as they sweep through patterns and clash sticks with great vigour.
Cecil Sharp, one of the folklorists who started the 20th Century revival of morris, dismissed border dancing as degenerate – a point of pride for today’s performers, perhaps.
Boggart's Breakfast
5000 Morris Dancers, Southbank, London 2010
Photo: urban75
