Beltane Border Morris dancing Huntress in Cawsand

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  • Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
  • Beltane Border Morris dancing Huntress at the Wreckers Day of Dance outside the Cross Keys Inn in Cawsand on Sat 20th Sept 2014. The dance is one of our own created in 2004 and modified in 2012

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  • @rattyfingers8621
    @rattyfingers8621 11 месяцев назад +4

    Love the wild dance. Love the music. Just remember, without music there is no dancing. Together its simply amazing.

  • @parabellum2126
    @parabellum2126 Год назад +7

    such energy and passion, long may you dance folk of Morris.

  • @rumeunner3245
    @rumeunner3245 3 года назад +15

    That was awesome, a new age fusion style Morris dance.

  • @kalemnir
    @kalemnir 9 лет назад +37

    This is simply great! So hypnotizing and full of energy... Can't just stop watching.

  • @ulf5202
    @ulf5202 4 года назад +16

    I love this, we should do it more with these guys style of the dance

  • @mjc5509
    @mjc5509 3 года назад +12

    Well rehearsed and performed with panache ...BRAVO

  • @Tania-ni9tx
    @Tania-ni9tx 4 месяца назад +1

    Absolutely brilliant. Love it, bring it on. ❤❤❤

  • @magnusbergqvist2123
    @magnusbergqvist2123 9 месяцев назад +2

    Love the drive in the music and the wild dancing.

  • @bobbyjohnston7857
    @bobbyjohnston7857 3 года назад +28

    Respect from the Celtic Pagans of Eire. Keep our culture strong and teach our children of who we are. One Celtic Pagan nation. Slainte agus Saoirse

    • @Wotsitorlabart
      @Wotsitorlabart Год назад +3

      It's a morris side.
      And as such it is neither pagan nor Celtic (despite their name).

    • @scythianking7315
      @scythianking7315 Год назад

      These losers destroying their own traditions to appease anti-white racists who hate our culture, how pathetic. Ask these clowns why they stopped painting their faces black in the past few years.
      Imagine changing a 300+ year old tradition, all because some brown people who hate us told you to

    • @johnbrereton5229
      @johnbrereton5229 Год назад +2

      ​@@Wotsitorlabart
      Morris dancing is very ancient and there is no evidence to suggest it doesn't have Celtic or Pagan origins.

    • @Wff646
      @Wff646 Год назад +2

      ​@@johnbrereton5229because it's anglo saxon dance😊

    • @cartimandua_
      @cartimandua_ Год назад

      This is known as Border Morris (Welsh/English border). The village is in Cornwall, England - but they often are pagan at these folk festivals.

  • @stereodreamer23
    @stereodreamer23 5 лет назад +11

    Beautiful performance, and wonderful videography. However, a little pointer--when filming Morris, it's always a good idea that the mic stays on the opposite side of the Side from the band. If you get too close to the musicians, we can't hear that lovely "clack-clack" from their sticks that we all LOVE so much in Border Morris!...

  • @phillembleton2222
    @phillembleton2222 3 месяца назад

    read lots of comments on if its this or that, Its Morris dancing , its English, enough said . the quality speaks for itself

  • @ThaiSoup39
    @ThaiSoup39 3 года назад +3

    Floating, flying spirits - bloody fantastic

  • @crwydryn
    @crwydryn 4 года назад +6

    I love this, and the music. Bravo!

  • @antveal
    @antveal  9 лет назад +27

    Thanks Elina. It's definitely a wild dance and is set on the high open moorland in Dartmoor near Scorhill Stone Circle where, on the night of the Hunters Moon each October, Diana the Huntress is reputed to appear and chase any men she finds across the moor and into the bogs. A couple of years ago we introduced a new battle move halfway through the dance where the men try to fight back but the chase resumes and they eventually all drown (2 mins 17 secs in). Glad you enjoyed it

    • @HOPROPHETA
      @HOPROPHETA 5 лет назад +3

      Looks West African hence Moorish origins of Morris.

    • @anaisbarrosodgh5790
      @anaisbarrosodgh5790 3 года назад

      Q148

    • @anaisbarrosodgh5790
      @anaisbarrosodgh5790 3 года назад

      @@HOPROPHETA wr77

    • @HOPROPHETA
      @HOPROPHETA 2 года назад

      Moorland and Dartmoor.

    • @johnbrereton5229
      @johnbrereton5229 Год назад +2

      ​@@HOPROPHETA
      There is no evidence to suggest it has any connection to the Moors of North or West Africa, in fact it bears no relation to any of the dancing there.

  • @kaye-q1k
    @kaye-q1k Год назад +1

    Beautiful so glad I found this channel

  • @VivaVictory
    @VivaVictory Год назад +2

    Beautiful and without any need for future cultural enrichment.

  • @diannemorgan-smith2245
    @diannemorgan-smith2245 Год назад +2

    Fantastic. Love it!

  • @JollyWollyCollie
    @JollyWollyCollie 4 года назад +5

    Great dancing, music and filming. Brill.

  • @t1281
    @t1281 4 года назад +3

    I saw something very similar in Lancashire on a day out. I don't know if it was for the same thing, but they were also dressed in black. Years living in Manchester and that was the best bit lol

  • @JamieW-o7b
    @JamieW-o7b Год назад +2

    Great stuff, keep it growing!

  • @antveal
    @antveal  9 лет назад +19

    Ulrike, if you're learning the dance here's a few tips to help you along. It starts with a chorus and has three main moves (or what we call figures). At 0mins 41secs is 'cross sticks.' After the next chorus at 1'17" it's 'battle' and the final figure is 'three tops' at 1'53". Over the years the dance has gradually got faster but I actually think it looks just as good at a slower pace. The trick with the chorus is once you've crossed the set in your two lines of three is to seamlessly turn those straight lines into as good a circle as you can make it even when you turn and change direction, the circle being the full hunters moon. Best of luck, Ant

    • @ulrikerodrigues7733
      @ulrikerodrigues7733 9 лет назад +3

      +Ant Veal - Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately I fell on my back the day of the first rehearsal and so now... I am the drummer. I've been told a few times, "You've gotta POUND it like those drummers in the Beltane!" I'm working on it! Cheers from Les Tartes de Pomme in Lauzun, France!
      folkforum47.com/traditional-song-and-dancedanse-et-chanter-traditionelle/

    • @vinchenzo678
      @vinchenzo678 3 года назад +1

      @@ulrikerodrigues7733 well respect for the drums

    • @anaisbarrosodgh5790
      @anaisbarrosodgh5790 3 года назад

      Qeryu

  • @vinchenzo678
    @vinchenzo678 3 года назад +12

    Top class... Whoever worked the camera got some quality angles! And the music's is spot on.. Anything happening with shows this year?

  • @richardjones7984
    @richardjones7984 4 года назад +16

    This is real scary Morris dancing.

  • @diannemorgan-smith2245
    @diannemorgan-smith2245 Год назад

    Wow! Just wow! Thank youxxxx

  • @susandrydenhenderson6234
    @susandrydenhenderson6234 Год назад +1

    This is great.

  • @sarahlouise7163
    @sarahlouise7163 3 года назад +4

    love it

  • @suebursztynski2530
    @suebursztynski2530 11 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing stuff! Nice to see women in there. Dangerous, though! Years ago, a friend and I were taking a break from our SCA fight practice and got chatting to a Morris dancer also taking a break. We decided we were safer bashing each other with rattan swords! 😂

  • @DandelaBedoyere
    @DandelaBedoyere 7 лет назад +4

    Amazing!

  • @jofox1186
    @jofox1186 3 года назад +2

    Awesome!!!!!!!!!!

  • @carwynlewis1602
    @carwynlewis1602 10 месяцев назад

    superb, best of Britain..

  • @Carlos-uq8if
    @Carlos-uq8if 11 месяцев назад

    Saludos desde Lancre.😊

  • @Brianhugetool.
    @Brianhugetool. Год назад +3

    About time this great island rediscovered it's culture and roots . Destroyed by the Christians so long ago .

    • @gwynjames2077
      @gwynjames2077 5 месяцев назад

      Some say it was crusaders coming back imitating moorish dancers ? So perhaps very bloody Christians.

    • @YorkyOne
      @YorkyOne 4 месяца назад

      The morris dance dates from the early 15th century - talk of pagan roots are misguided.
      And it wasn't literally a dance that the Moors would have performed - it was an exotic 'Moorish' dance as imagined by the Western European royal courts.

  • @MeT2338
    @MeT2338 3 года назад

    Brilliant...

  • @yanism.galvez6604
    @yanism.galvez6604 8 лет назад +2

    awesome

  • @phillembleton2222
    @phillembleton2222 3 месяца назад

    How do you find out if you love Morris dancing? you watch this.

  • @ioancreanga7776
    @ioancreanga7776 2 года назад +4

    In transilvanya we have something similar it's called ''Lole''

    • @antveal
      @antveal  2 года назад +2

      Yes, definite similarities. In winter one of our traditions is to wassail where we scare the evil spirits of the orchards away. And of course costumes are made of mostly black rags with faces disguised. I would love to see the Lole one day

    • @ioancreanga7776
      @ioancreanga7776 2 года назад +1

      @@antveal in our tradition we also scare the bad spirits and our costumes are black rags and we have a mask on our face we have bells tied on them

    • @Fleur_de_Rosé
      @Fleur_de_Rosé 2 месяца назад

      ​@@antvealGreetings! Do you also light a yearly need fire??
      Or do you ever take part in the need fire ritual??

  • @IckyTzatziki
    @IckyTzatziki Год назад

    Great dancing but what does it say on the red guys T shirt?

  • @keldaogg2157
    @keldaogg2157 2 года назад +1

    Check out Steeleye Span, Dark Morris.

  • @ganndeber1621
    @ganndeber1621 10 месяцев назад

    needs more hankies and jingly bells

  • @simplyimpish1055
    @simplyimpish1055 4 года назад +1

    So cool! Are they ravens or crows?

  • @tomokra
    @tomokra Год назад

    This is awesome! So "Huntress" is the name of the tune?

  • @grid_keeper7889
    @grid_keeper7889 5 лет назад +1

    Your brilliant ,inspirational ,,aan caring on the old way ,,flute and violin take me back 1193,,OOO ARR me badgers🦡

  • @ktsenya2
    @ktsenya2 10 лет назад +1

    You guys have a great percussion section. What's your website?
    Bob from Moreton Bay Fig Morris, stateside. Cotswold and Bampton trad

    • @antveal
      @antveal  9 лет назад

      ktsenya2 Hi, at the moment we're mainly posting to Facebook at facebook.com/BeltaneBorderMorris but do have a website at www.beltaneborder.co.uk but this needs a lot of updating.

  • @bakingmatters1
    @bakingmatters1 8 лет назад +1

    Could you please post the title of the music for each dance, thank you.

  • @jackwhitehead5233
    @jackwhitehead5233 Год назад

    This is how I imagine all Morris was before the Victorians sanitised it

    • @YorkyOne
      @YorkyOne 4 месяца назад

      And you would be wrong.

    • @jackwhitehead5233
      @jackwhitehead5233 4 месяца назад

      @@YorkyOne prove it

    • @YorkyOne
      @YorkyOne 4 месяца назад

      @@jackwhitehead5233
      Because, except for theatrical depictions of 'morris' dancing, the Victorians took no notice of the morris dance - in fact it was thought by many to have totally faded away.
      The type of morris dance with sticks as seen in the video developed during the 18th and 19th centuries.

    • @jackwhitehead5233
      @jackwhitehead5233 4 месяца назад

      @@YorkyOne just say you don't know what you're talking about my dude.
      Would save us both time.

    • @YorkyOne
      @YorkyOne 4 месяца назад

      @@jackwhitehead5233
      Perhaps you should pop along to your local library and borrow a copy of Michael Heaney's definitive history of the dance 'The Ancient English Morris Dance'.
      Heaney has spent over thirty years researching the history of the dance.
      Whereas you.......

  • @ХельгаВолк-ф7к
    @ХельгаВолк-ф7к Год назад

    То,что охотники,я поняла.а,вот историю не знаю.где почитать?.

    • @scrimshank1
      @scrimshank1 8 месяцев назад

      Google the " Black Act 1723". It will give you the background originating in poaching in disguise and nothing to do with black face in the US.

  • @pollyester6639
    @pollyester6639 Год назад

    And why is this not played before rugby - New Zealanders have hacker

  • @zarrow50
    @zarrow50 8 лет назад +2

    I hope those hatches don't fall in

  • @stevewyland9519
    @stevewyland9519 10 дней назад

    That a dude wearing a dress

  • @OhEidirsceoil
    @OhEidirsceoil 3 года назад

    Beltane? Do you not mean Bealtaine?

    • @jasonallen9144
      @jasonallen9144 2 года назад +1

      Same thing different spelling

    • @OhEidirsceoil
      @OhEidirsceoil 2 года назад

      @@jasonallen9144 Wrong spelling though.

    • @OhEidirsceoil
      @OhEidirsceoil 2 года назад

      @@jasonallen9144I know they mean Bealtaine so they should spell it correctly at least.

    • @jasonallen9144
      @jasonallen9144 2 года назад +1

      @@OhEidirsceoil how would you spell your name in English.

    • @OhEidirsceoil
      @OhEidirsceoil 2 года назад

      @@jasonallen9144 I wouldn't.

  • @HOPROPHETA
    @HOPROPHETA 5 лет назад +3

    Are two of them dressed as females? Looks like west African origins.

    • @roberthickman4092
      @roberthickman4092 5 лет назад +6

      There are women in that group.

    • @HOPROPHETA
      @HOPROPHETA 5 лет назад

      @@roberthickman4092 OK. Still looks like they are impersonating Mende dances.

    • @ljmcdowall3860
      @ljmcdowall3860 5 лет назад +23

      @@HOPROPHETA Mende and Morris are two unrelated dance traditions and they look nothing like each other-for starters Mende has a syncopated rhythm and this doesn't. Morris has far more in common with Irish/Scottish step-dancing or other European folk dances than anything from Africa. The black makeup stems from the days when dancers would disguise themselves for poaching with coal dust or ash-you can see the pheasant feathers in the costumes.

    • @hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo
      @hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo 4 года назад +2

      It's very English, we have the oldest recorded dance in the world, the Abbots Bromley horn dance.

    • @enzedbrit
      @enzedbrit 4 года назад +11

      Nothing to do with Africa at all. This is British

  • @clarissafarmer3547
    @clarissafarmer3547 2 года назад

    It’s just as rubbish as the normal costume one

  • @alanbrooks8190
    @alanbrooks8190 Год назад

    Brilliant.