Haydock Royals Juniors - Winter Challenge 2019

[@wonder3272]

Omg I was there I danced against them in my line

[@Firebunny1996]

I only just discovered Morrison dancing on tik tok today, can someone explain why there is always one dancer off to the side?

[@tammylouise1192]

It's called a mascot , so if any dancer can't make it , she/he will fit into there space , So they have to no every arm work , They also get judge on just being mascot as well ,just like a leader and then the whole line 🤦‍♀️🤣 it took me a while to get it and I go to comps 🤣

[@havntress]

My mom was dancing there for liberty

[@eleanormcadam702]

Aren't they not T.R.U's judges because I recognise them

[@wonder3272]

That's a lie from you

[@eleanormcadam702]

@@wonder3272 How?

[@wonder3272]

@@eleanormcadam702 BC I was there duh

[@wonder3272]

Just check my dancing video and see if you have seen me there

[@eleanormcadam702]

@@wonder3272 Its not my fault I have a feeling that 4 of them judges judged my Seniors at champs last season

[@heidiheaton9334]

Did u dance against empire

[@wonder3272]

What about divine

[@wonder3272]

And salinka stars

[@wonder3272]

I was there I'm kardells

[@wonder3272]

Or was it my other one idk

[@heidiheaton9334]

@@wonder3272 oh yer I don't dance for empire anymore my mum has made her own troupe what line were u in x

[@abbirea2000]

I danced there becauae i waa in harliequinns

[@pauline6005]

Rewatching this and paying close attention. You realise their arm work is sloppy . Many mistakes

[@crystalontop]

i used to dance against them when i was 8-12 and honestly they was the best troupe going, they would always come first or second never lower and to this day they still are amazing, my cousin dances against them so i go and watch and they have improved so so much full respect they train there hardest, and this was right after championship so they must of all been exhausted so full respect goes to them for doing a winter challenge ❤️

[@pauline6005]

@@user-jn8cl8rb3t i dance many moons ago lol. When It was real dancing and proper arm work. Not majorette style :)

[@pauline6005]

Bring back real Morris dancing. They are good. But it's not real Morris dancing This is with a majorettes twist

[@FluffyMorrisDancing]

This is real Morris Dancing, it's just a different variation of the traditional sort - More appealing to younger generations, more fun, competitive, rewarding and vibrant than the traditional Morris Dancing - Also traditional Morris Dancing never went away its still here, you just stumbled across a different side to it.

[@mericet39]

@@FluffyMorrisDancing yes traditional morris dancing is still here. I do it. But this is surely much too far removed from traditional morris dancing, the only thing which remains is the basic 123-hop stepping. The music, the costumes, the exclusiveness, the style, the whole culture, is utterly different. I've got no problem with the dance you perform, but calling it 'morris' is wrong.

[@FluffyMorrisDancing]

​@@mericet39 Trust me, every fluffy Morris dancer out there would love for it to be called something different because when we tell people what we do they instantly think its the traditional sort which as you pointed out - it isn't. The only resemblance to traditional morris is the hop stepping and bells on our shoes. Unsure what you mean by exclusivity though? If you mean the all female thing then there is actually many male fluffy morris dancers out there, but the majority are female - similar to how traditional morris was once a male only dance. Our style of morris evolved from the traditional style and has its own history. It started in the north west around the war time when there wasn't many men around to do traditional morris. A group of women got together to carry on the tradition by creating female troupes that were much closer to the traditional morris that you do. They performed at carnivals and eventually the carnivals started giving awards out and that then turned into competitions which is when the style started to really evolve. If you saw fluffy morris dancers from the 40s, 50s, 60s & even 70s you would see more comparisons to what you do, but since competition is a major element of this style troupes evolved to become more modern to keep kids interested so that they had enough dancers to compete. Doesn't matter if you hate it or disagree with it, our fluffy morris wouldn't be alive today if it wasn't for traditional morris dancing, it only exists because people wanted to keep the tradition alive in hard times. We wish we wasn't called morris danceing either, but history is history and we cant deny our roots.

[@AlecBrady]

@@mericet39 This *is* the tradition. I love the Revival style that you're talking about - I belong to a Border side, and I've done both Cotswold and North West - but, be honest, it's a mainly middle-class activity, reviving and preserving something that would have mostly died out if left to its own devices. Whereas Carnival (aka Fluffy) Morris has a continuous history of self-powered development, it's a mainly working-class dance-form, young people love doing it, it often runs in families, and it's done to the music that people actually listen to. In all those respects it's closer to (say) Abbotts Bromley than any of the Revival sides is. I don't know what you mean by "exclusivity" - I'm guessing you don't mean that it's an all-female side, as the self-same criticism would have to be levelled at many Revival sides. Do you mean that it's skilful? Also, where is this "basic 123-hop stepping" you write of? All of the dance here is done to a version of what you'd call a rant-step. The music and costumes of Revival North West Morris are also different from the music and costumes of Revival Cotswold. Why is that supposed to be a bad thing? Shouldn't different traditions have their own music and costumes? As for the "culture" - yes, this is working-class culture. Do you hear that enthusiasm from the crowd? This is not the Revival folk-festival crowd, who would sit in respectful silence (well, apart from the Sidmouth LNE :-)), this is a partisan crowd cheering on their team and loving the display of skill. Don't get me wrong, I love the Revival world, I'm part of it. But (other than sides like Abbotts Bromley or Eynsham) that's not tradition. It's archaeology.

[@GeorgiaGeorgette]

As a retired morris dancer, I agree. This looks like cheerleader dancing. It isn't morris.