I was reading about all of the Terry Prachett novels we have been reading on Wikipedia, and I stumbled across an interesting fact. Apparently since the Dark Morris version of the Morris dance first appeared in literary references, some actual Morris sides have adopted the dance.
The exerpt goes on to describe an incidence that Prachett mentions in the Author's Note portion of The Wintersmith. Apparently at one of his book signings a man, who was a real Morris side, showed up to the signing dressed in all black. He then proceeded to do the Dark Morris dance in complete silence for Pratchett at the book signing.
Prachett described this event as, "It was beautifully done... But it was also a bit creepy." I honestly probably would have paid to have seen some random guy show up to a book signing dressed all in black, and do this creepy dance in front of everyone!
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That's funny, I'm sure Prachett got great amusement from it, how fitting.
ReplyDeleteI went to youtube (as usual) and tried to google Morris dancing, Dark Morris, etc. Well there are literally hundreds of videos that depict something resembling the actual dance or attempts of it. I couldn't find hardly any were the dancers were shown in all black and the dance was done in silence; most of the dances were those to welcome spring I believe, as the dancers wore bright colors and music was prominent.
Here's one I found though that I thought was really intriguing; obviously the scene from Wintersmith did not look anything like this (at least in my head), but at least we can sort of put a physical picture with the description of it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7ytMspgJ5A