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A Christmas Morris found in the counties of the English-Welsh border (English counties of Hereford and Worcester, Gloucestershire. Shropshire). Dances are now often performed in black-face.
Perhaps the oldest European display dance. All teams now imitate the dance from Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire, England, with six reindeer horns, Robin Hood, Hobby Horse, Maid Marion, and Jester.
Percussive dancing (clogging, clog dancing, hambone, hoofing, tap, wooden shoe dancing) involving the making of rhythmic sounds with the feet or hands.
A processional form of dance (for 8 or more dancers) from the north-west of England (counties of Cheshire and Lancashire). The dancers may wear clogs and carry slings, decorated sticks, or "tiddlers". Dance is controlled by a "Conductor" or "Captain".
Display dances originally from East Anglia in England, performed at the Christmas season, often with male dancers wearing women's clothing (hence "Mollies").
A circular dance around a raised tree or "pole" dance sometimes with several people holding ribbons attached to the top of a pole, around which they dance, gradually winding or "plaiting" the ribbons onto the pole or onto the ribbons themselves.
Linked dances (historically at mid-winter) with wooden or steel "swords" for five or more performers, some times performed with a death-and-resurrection or "mummers" play.
Perhaps the oldest European display dance. All teams now imitate the dance from Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire, England, with six reindeer horns, Robin Hood, Hobby Horse, Maid Marion, and Jester.
Dances for six or eight carrying horseshoe-shaped garlands covered with cloth or flowers. In recent years, garlands are made from old hula hoops or PVC pipe.
In the May Morris of the English Cotswolds (counties of Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, and Staffordshire), dances are typically performed in "sets" of six or eight (or greater multiples of two)
In the May Morris of the English Cotswolds (counties of Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, and Staffordshire), dances are often performed as "jigs" for a small number of dancers (most commonly as solo or double jigs).