Powderkegs Morris Dancers & Street Entertainers, Detail and People, Performing at Tutbury Castle Weekend of Dance Derbyshire UK. The side is a mixed group of men and women who dance traditional & evolving Border Morris with sticks and batons. . It is believed that Border dancers disguise dates back to the time of "Tied workers" (the house is tied to the job) when during slack times money could be made at fairs dancing and playing music. The workers would be evicted if caught by the squire therefore they used materials close to hand - rags and coal dust to disguise themselves.
Dressed in traditional ‘Tatters’, shirts covered in ribbons and strips of fabric in our sides colours blue and black. Traditionally border morris dancers would ‘black’ their faces up to hide there identity
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Location: Tutbury, Burton On Trent, UK
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