We do morris dancing of the Cotswold tradition. Our dances are named after villages in the Cotswolds including Adderbury, Bampton, Bledington, Bucknell, Fieldtown and Headington.
We're accompanied by musicians of many instruments! These include accordions, melodeons, pipe and tabors and recorders.
Interested? Here's where you can find us.
We're accompanied by musicians of many instruments! These include accordions, melodeons, pipe and tabors and recorders.
Interested? Here's where you can find us.
Longsword dance
We perform a Yorkshire Longsword dance as part of our repertoire. There's nowt like it outside Yorkshire!
It begins with us singing:
"We are six actors bold
Never been on stage before
But we will do our best
And best can do no more
You've seen us all go round
Think of us what you will
Music strike up and play
T'owd Lass o' Dallowgill"
Our dance concludes with a sword lock. It's an interlacing of swords which we hold up in the air in triumph. It's quite the sight!
It begins with us singing:
"We are six actors bold
Never been on stage before
But we will do our best
And best can do no more
You've seen us all go round
Think of us what you will
Music strike up and play
T'owd Lass o' Dallowgill"
Our dance concludes with a sword lock. It's an interlacing of swords which we hold up in the air in triumph. It's quite the sight!
Mummers' play
At Christmas we perform a mummers' play called Saint George and the Dragon.
Mummers' plays are one of the oldest surviving features of the traditional English Christmas, going back over a thousand years.
They are an early form of pantomime based on the legend of Saint George. The plays humorously represent the struggles between good and evil, and life and death.
Our play involves exciting medieval sword fighting between a Turkish Knight and Saint George. Usually one character plays dead - cue a quack doctor who performs a miraculous and comedic cure!
Under the guise of Doncaster Mummers, our fun play also includes Father Christmas, the King of Egypt and other quirky characters - all dressed in spectacular disguises.
Mummers' plays are one of the oldest surviving features of the traditional English Christmas, going back over a thousand years.
They are an early form of pantomime based on the legend of Saint George. The plays humorously represent the struggles between good and evil, and life and death.
Our play involves exciting medieval sword fighting between a Turkish Knight and Saint George. Usually one character plays dead - cue a quack doctor who performs a miraculous and comedic cure!
Under the guise of Doncaster Mummers, our fun play also includes Father Christmas, the King of Egypt and other quirky characters - all dressed in spectacular disguises.
