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Mr.Leslie's Banbury Rapper Captain: John Leslie Treasurer: Colin Street Secretary: Stephen Wass A little history What do we do Why do we do it Who are we Want to book us Want to E-mail us DATES Back to WASSAIL Hang on.... five dancers... six swords! Click here for photo gallery...... A Little History Weaving complex figures with linked swords was a common form of dance right across ...

Asworded Nuts Our motto: We dress ourselves Longsword predates rapper-sword by a few hundred years in England and on the continent, and exists in a number of traditions throughout Europe. The swords are typically 36-40 inches in length: long, flat, tongue-depressor like blades with a wooden handle on one end. The traditions in England come mostly from fishing and mining villages in the ...

High Spen Blue Diamonds Traditional Rapper Sword Dancers The Blue Diamonds were formed in the Durham (UK) pit village of High Spen in 1926 by Fred Forster. When formed, all of the dancers were young boys, and one of them was Fred's own son of the same name. He grew up and led the team until his death in 1986 when his son Frederick (Ricky) took over leadership. Ricky's two brothers, Joe and Colin ...

Rapper sword is a tradition dating back at least to the late 1700's from villages in the North-Eastern parts of England. A Rapper sword is a short flexible sword with a swivel on one end and a fixed handle on the other. It is thought that this implement might have been used to rake sweat off of horses used in mining operations in that area, although its true origins remained cloaked in the ...

HIGHSIDE LONGSWORD We were formed in 1986, which although relatively recent we have quite a good historic pedigree . Our original aim was to learn and revive a local version of the Kirkby Malzeard Longsword dance. We actually danced out for the first time on Boxing Day 1986 in Kirkby Malzeard. We all live within 6 miles of Kirkby, which is now in North Yorkshire. At the time of Cecil Sharp's ...

Short Sword The Twin Cities is also home to another rapper team called Short Sword. The team originally derived its name both from the height of its members and from the length of their swords (as compared to longswords, such as Asworded Nuts uses). While the average height of team members has increased over the years, the lengths of their swords has decreased, following the law of conservation ...

Tangled Web Another rapper team What's got into these people Sword fever (fervor ) no doubt. Actually it is spending too much time indoors during the winter that makes them jump up and down and over and through these tangled swords. Or maybe it is just trying to vie for a parking space at the Maul of America -- a few quick moves there can save you a 45 minute walk. Anyway, Tangled Web (or ...

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Black Adder Rapper and Step is the longest running female Rapper team still in existence. They perverse the rules of genre; dancing Irish to the hot beat of the Samba and mixing school sporting events with traditional clog dancing. Gorgeous, raucous and mostly non-carnivorous, they've got more adjectives than Mr. Collins.

Wild Rose Longsword The newest longsword team in Minnesota (at least to the best of this author's knowledge) is Wild Rose. Not your typical graden-club variety group of uppity women, but an energetic an elegant longsword team (or maybe they are just a bunch of uppity garden-club people, but owing to their club secrecy and strict dress-code, no outsider has been successful in penetrating this ...

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