First posted at Waterton’s Walton.
The Green Oak Morris Men, perfomed at The New Inn, Walton creating a quintessential English village scene on 5 June 2019. While this style of Morris Dancing is more evocative of areas like Oxfordshire it was still great to see English tradition being celebrated in this art form. The ‘proper’ Yorkshire take on the Morris variant is sword dancing, which I believe is also practiced by the Green Oak Morris Men.
Some people speculate that Morris Dancing developed from ancient fertility rites, though the first historical reference in England was in 1448.
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