{"id":20,"date":"2013-11-01T23:30:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T23:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wicketbrood.org.uk\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:11:54","slug":"worcestershire-monkey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wicketbrood.org.uk\/?page_id=20","title":{"rendered":"Worcestershire Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Worcestershire Monkey<\/em> is our famous signature dance which has become a popular Border Morris dance worldwide. The dance was devised by Martin Hallett of Wicket Brood and is danced to the music Weasel’s Revenge<\/em> composed by Jan Hurst, also of Wicket Brood. Worcestershire Monkey<\/em> is a dance for eight people with influences from Pershore in Worcestershire while the Monkey Hey is from an old Iffy Morris dance called Chinese Monkey.<\/p>\n

Worcestershire Monkey<\/em> is a regular part of our performance. We sometimes also perform a Mass Monkey<\/em> when we meet up with other Border Morris Sides at festivals or a Day of Dance. A Mass Monkey<\/em> is when multiple sides perform our dance Worcestershire Monkey<\/em> at the same time, in one long continuous line of dancers. It can be an awe inspiring sight to behold and is, in our opinion \ud83d\ude09 , a spectacular development of the best of English Border Morris dancing. The record, so far, for the largest number of sets in a Mass Monkey<\/em> is believed to be seven which occurred at the Swanage Folk Festival in 2010.<\/p>\n

Hall of Fame<\/h1>\n

Being a list of sides that, to our knowledge, perform Worcestershire Monkey <\/p>\n

United Kingdom<\/h2>\n

Wicket Brood Border Morris (Hertfordshire)
\n\u00c6lfgythe Border Morris (Worcestershire)
\nAnonymous (Dorset)
\nBaldock Midnight Morris (Hertfordshire)
\nBlack Swan Border Morris (Surrey)
\nBorderline Border Morris (Berkshire)
\nBorderline Border Morris (Devon)
\nClerical Error Border Morris (Wales)
\nDartmoor Border Morris (Devon)
\nEnigma Border Morris (Somerset)
\nExmoor Border Morris (Devon)
\nFox Morris (Worcestershire)
\nGreen Dragon Border Morris (Suffolk)
\nKittiwake Border Morris (Bristol)
\nLoose Women Morris (Kent)
\nLumbawakk (Oxfordshire)
\nOBJ Border Morris (Berkshire)
\nOtter Morris (Devon)
\nPedant’s Revolt (Norfolk)
\nPowderkegs Border Morris (Derbyshire)
\nRagged Crow, Formerly Nelson Morris Dancers
\nRagged Phoenix (East Sussex)
\nShinfield Shambles Border Morris (Berkshire)
\nStone the Crows Border Morris (Lancashire)
\nWinterbourn Down Border Morris (Gloucestershire)
\nWreckers Border Morris (Cornwall)
\nWytchwood Morris (Worcestershire)
\nYoung Miscellany (Hertfordshire)<\/p>\n

Worldwide<\/h2>\n

Orange Peel Border Morris (Orangeville, Ontario, Canada)
\nBlack Sheep Morris (Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada)
\nQuicksbottom Morris (Victoria, BC, Canada)<\/p>\n

Nor’West Arch (Christchurch, New Zealand)
\nDark Moon Morris (Nelson, New Zealand)<\/p>\n

Happy Kelpie Morris (St Petersburg, Russia)<\/p>\n

Drunken Weasels Border Morris (Virginia, USA)<\/p>\n

The music Weasel’s Revenge (copyright Jan Hurst)<\/em> used for other dances<\/h2>\n

Bikers Urban Morris with the dance Knutcracker
\nDartington Morris Men<\/p>\n

Copyright<\/strong>
\nOur dance Worcestershire Monkey was written by Martin Hallett for Wicket Brood Morris and is danced to Weasel’s Revenge (copyright Jan Hurst). Both dance and music are fast becoming part of the new Border Morris tradition so please feel free to download the dance notation and dots from the website to learn them.  If you add the Worcestershire Monkey to your repertoire, we would love to hear from you so we can add you to our \u201cHall of Fame\u201d. Please do not make any changes to the dance and please only use the correct titles which are Worcestershire Monkey and Weasel’s Revenge (copyright Jan Hurst).<\/strong>  If you would like to record the dance to publish on YouTube, Soundcloud or any other website or app, please can you credit the dance Worcestershire Monkey by Martin Hallett of Wicket Brood and the music Weasel\u2019s Revenge (copyright Jan Hurst) in your notes about the recording. If you are publishing a public recording of the tune Weasel’s Revenge, we would ask you kindly to let Jan know via email to Wicket Brood Bagman or Bandleader.<\/p>\n

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