| BEGINNERS’ GUIDE TO ENGLISH FOLK DANCE | This 61 page booklet, sub-titled ‘A brief introduction to the vibrant and diverse English folk dance traditions’, provides an insight into the wonderfully diverse forms of English dance of which social dancing is just one. It can be read on-line section by section or downloaded as a pdf file (9.7mb) here – https://www.efdss.org/learning/resources/resources For some good YouTube videos of specific genres and associated links to key websites see below. These dances are NOT in the ATBDS repertoire but are included on our website to acknowledge our broader dance heritage. |
| Broom Dancing | The Broom Dance – Heritage Alive! Ouse Washes Molly Dancers – The Broom Dance The Irish – Cunningham Sean Nos Dancers, Clifden Trad Fest
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| Clog dancing | Knickerbocker Glory – Welsh Clog Dance Camden Clog dancing Nelson Mills by Pat Tracey Come Clog Dancing Flash Mob, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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| Molly Dancing | Gog Magog Molly dance the Polychromatic Parrot at Sidmouth Mollydancing.com |
| Morris dancing | Icknield Way Morris Men dancing Cotswold Morris The Horse of the Outside Capering Crew
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| Rapper | Strictly Come Sword Dancing – Stone Monkey Rapper Sword Dance at Sidmouth Folk Festival 2014
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| Ritual dances | BBC Four – Still Folk Dancing… After All These Years – Nutters clip Britannia Coconut Dancers of Bacup (The full dance) BBC Four – Still Folk Dancing… After All These Years – The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance (The antlers are dated c1050.) |
| AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT – DANCE FLASH MOBS | Irish Step Dancing Flash Mob – Central Station, Sydney COMMANDO TRAD Mission 5, Montreal – Alas, no longer on-line |
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