The MossyBack Morris Men dance to celebrate English tradition
The MossyBack Morris Men dance to celebrate English tradition
Seattle's MossyBack Morris Men gather at Gas Works Park every week in summer to honor traditional English dancing and to have beer.
By Alan Berner
It took more than 400 years for Morris dancers to get from Bledington and Ducklington in the Cotswold region of England to Gas Works Park in Seattle.
With hankies in hand and bells on their britches, they dance not for pleasure but for performance. It's a show dance thought "to bring fertility to those who watch (and) bring beer and bad knees to those who dance," according to one Morris Dance Web site.
Read more at the times
It took more than 400 years for Morris dancers to get from Bledington and Ducklington in the Cotswold region of England to Gas Works Park in Seattle.
With hankies in hand and bells on their britches, they dance not for pleasure but for performance. It's a show dance thought "to bring fertility to those who watch (and) bring beer and bad knees to those who dance," according to one Morris Dance Web site.
Read more at the times 
