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<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in 1989, a Hurst village couple who loved morris dancing, wanted to dance together. Finding local morris sides back then were either just for men or women only, they formed their own mixed gender side, calling it ‘Hurst Morris People’. Abbreviating the name to HuMP reflected the fact that their village’s placename, ‘Hurst’, means ‘wooded hill’. That hill was incorporated into their badge ….. So nothing to do with camels, but we have met a few in our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We dance in white kit, with blue crossover baldricks, and flower-decorated straw hats. \u200bOur musicians play various instruments including violin, accordian and melodeon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dance style we perform is ‘Cotswold Morris’. Our repertoire of dances originates from English Cotswold villages including Adderbury, Stanton Harcourt and Bampton. Dancers from different locations developed slightly different ways (traditions) of executing dance moves, starting on different feet, ‘stepping’ in a different way, clashing sticks or waving handkerchieves differently. We also create some of our own dances, as teams have done throughout the ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n