B10 - Sunday, December 4, 1983 - North Shore News

EEG entertainment

Morris Men chase evil spirits out of pub
Folk dancing for fun and fertility

YOU’D THINK it was Ancient England to watch a
group of costumed men with ribbons, flowers, and
bells, leaping and chanting in the middle of the
Troller Pub on a Saturday afternoon.

But you’d be relieved to
find that the tame change was
only temporary, and that the
men were from the local
chapter of the Morris
Dancers.

The local team, the Van-
couver Morris men, rehearses
once a week at a school in
North Vancouver. Many of
their dances are countless
centuries old and the Morris

MORRIS DANCERS kick up their heels at the Troller Pub. The Vancouver Morris Men can

often be seen there, whether to chase evil spirits out of the pub, or (o enjoy the home brewed
beer at the Troller, no one is quite sure.

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men are keenly aware of the
ancient English traditions
they are helping to preserve.
They dance not only for their
own enjoyment, but to show
the unsuspecting and often
startled citizenry the simple
pleasures of England’s
pastoral past. The dances,
unsuspected by the mass of
their observers, have mean-
ings which go back into anti-

quity, folk lore and super-
suuon. Behind the light fan-
tastic is the dark fantastic!
The dances themselves
come from different parts of
England, but the most
popular sequences come
from the Cotswold Hills area
of central England — a Mor-
ris stronghold. Apparently, it
was traditional for men to
dance in the villages after
they’d finished work on the
land, supposedly to help

make the crops grow. The
white costumes worn by the
dancers are based on the sail-

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cloth clothes once worn by
farm workers, and the gay
ribbons and flowers worn in
the hats symbolise fertility.
The handkerchiefs are for
flicking the Devil in the eye
—a forceful follow through
to the role of the jingling leg-
bells, which are there to
frighten away evil spirits
without actually resorting to
violence.

Though the Morris danc-
ing ‘‘season’’ starts in the
Spring and carries on to the
Fall, the winter months are
spent learning new skills and

mastering old ones. If you
feel you would like to par-
Ucipate in this unusually
athletic yet sociable activity

steeped in history, contact
the Squire of the Vancouver
Morris men, Graham
Baldwin, at 929-6967.

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