Ouse Washes Molly

Introduction

Ouse Washes Molly Dancers, where do we come from? where did we get the name? from whence came the amazing dances which have stunned audiences all the way from Garboldisham to Grunty Fen?

The fenland, the last great wilderness of southern Britain is our legendary home and the dancing derives from the ancient practices of the gallant folk who struggled with the aigue crocodiles millennia ago and tamed the areas of the hidden bogs in which they lived.

When the devilish Dutch emerged from across the balmy North Sea some centuries back and despite our murderous undoing of their work they succeeded in draining most of our land the true folk referred to the area known as Ouse Washes, between the two great drains they dug, where in the winter the land still floods and swans and ducks leaving their desolate homes in Siberia to gather with us. There the Tiddy Mun still holds sway and piss pots are still emptied into the dykes to appease the evil spirits. There we draw our succour and inspiration.

But what of those incredible dances I hear you scream, frustrated by the interminable ramblings about our history. But without knowing the history and the legends and the dark watery depths from which we sprang you can’t hope to understand the subtleties of our delicate movements