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form and structure of any type of folk dance, let alone the morris
dances from the Welsh borders. Shortly before the end of the nineteenth
century, collectors began to work in the border area and Ella Leather,
Maud Karpeles and Cecil Sharp, amongst others, recorded dances and
tunes from the area before the first world war. However, the collectors
of the period generally ignored the morris dances of the Welsh borders:
Cecil Sharp considered them a degenerate form of the morris, hardly
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In the far north-west of the area, close to the border with Wales, the
dances are mostly for a small number of dancers and are relatively
simple. It may be that the dances from this area are the closest in
form to the original and that the other dances from the border area
have been the subject of outside influences. It is, however, also true
that this area of the Welsh border counties was relatively inaccessible
to the early collectors. The collected dances date from later, when the
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The north-east and central areas of the border counties was more urban
and had better communications. Perhaps because of this, the dances tend
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originally collected dances alongside newly developed dances that are
now considered as part of the 'standard' border morris repertoire.
Inspired by those original teams a number of other new teams were
formed, many outside the Welsh border area, and existing groups began
to include some Border Morris in their repertoire. Many of these teams
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Morris notes are the most extensive collection of traditional and
modern border dances.
* Andy Anderson of Red Stags Morris, Southampton, Hampshire, England
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repertoire. Andy also is the author of a Morris Federation pamphlet
about the history of border morris and exerpts are available on his
website.
* Hook Eagle Morris have dance notations of some of the more
traditional border morris dances.
* Welsh Border Morris Dances by Paul Millennas is divided into
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Dances.
* MOTley Morris, a border side from the Boston area, draw some of
their repertoire from the Hounds, the Connecticutt based Not For