Video collection
A collection of 50 short videos of Morris Federation sides will be released during 2025.
50 videos of 50 sides for the Morris Federation’s 50th anniversary!
The Morris Federation is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025. To celebrate this occasion during 2025 we will be publishing short videos which feature 50 Morris Federation sides.
The videos will be available on YouTube. In addition we will be inviting the featured sides to download videos of their side which they are free to use as they see fit: the videos could be uploaded to the side’s YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or similar video hosting account; posted on social media services such as Facebook; added to the side’s website – or used in other ways as the side sees fit!
Featured side
Grimspound Border was formed in 1994 from a group of ex-Cotswold style dancers and a few friends, some of whom were also Rapper Sword dancers. Right from the outset they all set out to dance with vigour and in an uncompromising “border” style that celebrated “maleness”. There was to be a balance between the rude (but never totally crude) and the dark side. There would always be an audience for this entertainment, but it must entertain others, not just the dancers.
Today the team survives after splits and various changes of personnel because it still does have an audience. New dancers will join a team that can identify it’s audience and keep those people entertained by what it does. Although our style of dancing is a border morris, we are not from the Welsh/English border area and so many of our dances are now our own, using figures and movements from that style (with a few ideas of our own) to create something that is unique to us.
- View our Teamfinder profile.
Download video
The following short video (available in landscape and portrait formats) are also available on YouTube. Note these videos are due to be published in week 19 (between 7-13 May 2025).
Download short video: (landscape mode) – (portrait mode)
