STYX OF STROUD

Styx of Stroud is a mixed Border Morris side founded in 2012 to perform traditional and contemporary dances in the Border style. We wear tattercoats, predominantly black, but with flashes of red and green to reflect the felt-making heritage of our home town of Stroud in Gloucestershire. Our faces are blackened to honour the original Border dancers who would blacken their faces with soot as a disguise to avoid prosecution for begging. And our kit is a mix of corsets, boots, a bit of steampunk, bells and top hats with feathers... We're a rum bunch of different people, from writers and designers to coppers and caregivers; from grandparents to grandchildren, from chimney sweeps to actors, from those living on narrowboats to those trading in Bitcoin; all brought together by an inexplicable love for this dancing lark... Styx of Stroud first performed in public in Autumn 2013, and have never looked back. Since then we've appeared all over the place, up and down the country and even over the..