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A group of Morris dancers have changed their face paint from black to blue following concerns over racism – in what they describe as 'by far and away the biggest change' in their 30-year history. Members of the Hook Eagle Morris Men performed near the village of Hook, Hampshire, to mark the May Day dawn on Saturday, in their first show since January 2020. In June 2020, cross-county group the Joint Morris Organisations issued a statement calling for dancing groups to eliminate the use of full-face black makeup in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. Hook Eagle Morris dancer John Elli...

BBC News Published image captionThe performance took place shortly after 05:00 BST A group of Morris dancers have changed their face paint from black to blue following concerns over racism. Members of the Hook Eagle Morris Men showcased their new look at a performance near Hook, Hampshire, to mark the May Day dawn earlier. A statement was issued last year calling for dancing groups to eliminate the use of full-face black makeup. Dancer John Ellis, 70, said it was "by far and away the biggest change" in the group's 30-year history. The call to stop the use of black makeup on the face was issue...

A group of Morris dancers have changed their face paint from black to blue following concerns over racism – in what they describe as “by far and away the biggest change” in their 30-year history. Members of the Hook Eagle Morris Men performed near the village of Hook, Hampshire, to mark the May Day dawn on Saturday, in their first show since January 2020. In June 2020, cross-county group the Joint Morris Organisations issued a statement calling for dancing groups to eliminate the use of full-face black makeup in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. Hook Eagle Morris dancer John ...

Morris dancers ditch black face-paint for blue over racism concerns Zoe Tidman © Provided by The Independent A group of Morris dancers has swapped traditional black face-paint for blue following racism concerns over the practice. One of the Hampshire-based Hook Eagle Morris Men, who performed their first dance show in more than a year on Saurday to mark the May Day dawn, said it might be the only change the group has undergone since it was set up three decades ago. It comes after the Joint Morris Organisations, an umbrella group for morris dancers, called for an end to full...