WHAT DO WE DANCE?

OUR DANCES

Brimfield

Our twist on a traditional and very simple Welsh border dance from the village of Brimfield. An lovely example of it's not what you dance but what tune you dance it to!

Vixana The Witch

Written by the amazing Beltane Border Morris from Devon and danced with their kind permission. The dance is about a Witch who lived on Dartmoor and wasn't very accommodating to lost strangers!
The original dance is for 8 man sets but we have adapted the dance for sets of 4 to fit our smaller number of members. When we can we'll double up the sets for more impact.

Boudicca

A self-penned dance by our Squire. Previously used in Raggedstone Border Morris under a different name. But the music and style of the dance fits the Warrior spirit of our defiant Celtic Queen who refused to kneel to Roman rule. She is considered a British national heroine and a symbol of the struggle for justice and independence.

John Barleycorn

This dance has been adapted from 'Dark Bonfire', an original dance by Hot for Joe Morris from Australia. Like Hot for Joe, we dance two versions one to drum beat only (during the darker, winter months) and with music to the old English Folk song in the Summer months. We have tweaked the beginning and end of the dance to fit the lyrics of the song.

Witches Reel

Original dance writen by our Squire set to a well known Pagan chant of the same name. The words are believed to be taken from an actual court transcript confession of a Witch on trial in Scotland. A work in progress. Hopefully we'll see it out by the end of 2006

White Ladies

Self penned dance by the Squire very loosely inspired by the traditional border dance White Ladies Aston. A firm favourite with all our dancers...and the tune is bostin!

Queen of the Fairies

Self penned by the Squire, the foundation of the dance originally written for Wytchwood Morris back in 2016, adapted & gifted to Blackthorn Ritualistic Folk Group in 2022 and then Raggedstone Border Morris. Each side she has brought it too has had a slightly different version.It will probably keep on changing & evolving for Hawthorn & Hare ... as dances do!

Stone Circle

Written by our Morris friends Beltane Border from Devon and danced with their kind permission. Like Vixana, this is a dance that really fits our Tribal, Pagan vibe - a lovely circular dance with Ooopmf ! When we have the room , we like to put a drummer in the middle.

Triskele

New self penned dance for 2026. The Triskele (or Triskelion) is an ancient Celtic symbol depicting a triad of spirals. Symbolizing motion, growth, and cycles, it represents divine trinity concepts such as birth-life-death, mind-body-spirit, earth-water-sky or maid - mother & crone, serving as an emblem of balance, eternity, and progress.
Our Triskele dance contains 3 'arms' , 6 dancers and a LOT of tatter skirt swirls!