Wharfedale Wayzgoose Border Morris Side
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Dances

Version 1, January 2004
Prepared by Lead Musician, Nick Hooper

Datchet

Datchet

Learned from Datchet Morris at a workshop at Lincoln.

Dilwyn

Horizontal Morris!

Traditional Herefordshire dance taught to us by Don Hammond of Alton. At Jane Austen's cottage he taught us the lying down version. The rest is history.

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Much Wenlock

Much Wenlock

Interpretation of a trad. dance from Shropshire learned at Mike Salter's Madcap Morris event.

Muckiarse

Muckiarse

Wayzgoose original, devised by Anita Walker.

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Twiglet

Twiglet

Simon saw Planet Morris do something like this at Freaks in the Peaks and reconstructed it.

Common as Muck

Common as Muck

A Wayzgoosed dance - so well that Alton did not recognise it! They took it from Datchet.

 

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Bay Horse

A Wayzgoose composition (Jennie Hooper and Anita Walker), named after our then post practice watering-hole, Vernon's Bay Horse Inn.

Big Bang

We got bored with the traditional White Ladies Aston, so Anita refreshed it.

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Brimfield

Traditional dance for four, turned into set of 6 ('Y' shape) or 8 ('+' shape) following example of Cass from Wales.

Cluster of Nuts

We purloined this from a couple we met at our first Madcap Morris weekend at Malvern. They danced with furry glove puppets on their hands & I think their team was 'Cluster of Nuts', but it was a long time ago. We don't do the song.

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Coleville

Alton Border Morris dance, taught to us by Don Hammond.

Molly Dance

Wayzgoose's take on the Molly style.

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Divine Wind

Devised by Ian Baguley.

East Acton Stick Dance

Taught to us by Don Hammond, of Alton Morris. Allegedly performed on Hancock's Half Hour by the East Cheam Morris Men. Roy Dommett had something to do with it.

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Fanny Frail

Trad. Dance learned from Carlisle.

Fiddler's Lock

Fiddler's Lock

Alton Border Morris

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Peopleton

Trad. chorus, Anita Walker refreshed the figures.

Three Jolly Black Sheepskins

Developed by the Iron Men from a traditional Shropshire hey dance.

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Upton upon Severn Stick Dance

The first dance we ever learned, taught to us by the Flagcrackers of Craven in 1993.

Wantage

Devised by Irene Hurlow & Jennie Hooper after visit to a workshop at Wantage; fine-tuned by Anita Walker. Figures are borrowed from an assortment of dances.

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The 'W' Dance

Adapted from Shinfield Shambles dance Jennie brought back from Roy Dommett workshop.

Upton upon Severn Stick Dance (Chingford Version)

Silly stepping!

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