Description
The Britannia Coco-nut Dancers of Bacup. The nut dance is most unusual and is performed either in a straight line or two lines of four with each of the dancers wearing wooden discs or nuts on their hands, and knees with a belly nut around the waist. During the Nut dance and the figures the wooden nuts which are made from maple are struck together in time with the music. The name “Coconuts” were given to the discs when the dance came to Lancashire and is said they resembled the protection to the elbows and knees when crawling along the narrow seams down the mines.