page_title: Britannia Coconut Dancers
section_title: Review
hierarchical_section_title: Britannia Coconut Dancers / Review
caption_attribution_description: English: The Easter Saturday Coco-nutters dance in Bacup
context_page_description: The Britannia Coco-nut Dancers or Nutters are a troupe of Lancastrian clog dancers who perform every Easter in Bacup, dancing 7 miles across the town. There are eight dancers and a whipper-in, who controls the proceedings.
context_section_description: AA Gill, writing in The Sunday Times, described them as bizarrely compelling: 
  The dance begins with each Nutter cocking a hand to his ear to listen to something we human folk can’t catch. They then wag a finger at each other, and they’re off, stamping and circling, occasionally holding bent wands covered with red, white and blue rosettes that they weave into simple patterns. It’s not pretty and it’s not clever. It is, simply, awe-inspiringly, astonishingly other. Morris men from southern troupes come and watch in slack-jawed silence. Nothing in the civilised world is quite as elementally bizarre and awkwardly compelling as the Coco-nutters of Bacup.
caption: In 2014
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