Editing Morris dance (section)

=== Dances ===

==== ''Y Gaseg Eira'' (The Snow Mare) ====
[[File:CardiffMorrisNant.jpg|right|thumb|187x187px|Cardiff Morris in [[Carmarthen]] finish a Nantgarw stick dance in distinctive style, by surrounding the [[mascot]], Idris.]]
This handkerchief dance has a pattern entirely peculiar to itself and was the first Nantgarw dance to see the light of day with the Cardiff Morris. The name of the dance is a [[Welsh language|Welsh]] [[idiom]] for a very large [[snowball]], and it is so named because at one point in the dance the hand waving movements resemble the movements of somebody rolling a large snowball.<ref name="CardiffMorris" /> This is the original Nantgarw dance and was being danced by Cardiff Morris by 1974.<ref name=weston/> An article in the Welsh Folk Dance Magazine published in 1959 featured an article on this dance along with a photograph of a side performing it.

==== ''Hela'r Sgwarnog'' (Hunting the Hare) ====
This is the first of three dances which conform to a standard pattern; which can, with a little care, be memorised and need, therefore, no calling. Like ''Y Gaseg Eira'' it is a handkerchief dance. The current practise with the [[music]] is to use [[Hornpipe|hornpipe time]], which lends a lilt to the dance that some people find attractive.<ref name="CardiffMorris" /> It had been added to the Nantgarw repertoire by 1984.<ref name=weston />

==== ''Ty Coch Caerdydd'' (The Red House of Cardiff) ====
Sixteen sticks lend a certain weight to the stick bag, if not the proceedings. The sticks are held [[skiing]]-fashion (as in [[Downhill (ski competition)|downhill]], not slalom or cross-country) and are brought up in front of the face to clash.<ref name="CardiffMorris" /> It was being danced by 1984.<ref name=weston />

==== ''Y Derwydd'' (The Druid) ====
Previously known as ''Y Gamel'' (The [[Camel]]) until it was renamed after the tune it is danced to. There are only eight sticks in this dance and no clashing except in the chorus. The dance pattern is identical to that of Hunting the Hare, even down to the half-heys in the chorus, except that the corner figures are completely replaced with Stars.<ref name="CardiffMorris" /> It was put together in 1991.<ref name=weston />

==== ''Y Goron'' (The Crown) ====
This is a stick dance based around circular hays.

==== ''Nos Galan'' (New Year's Eve) ====
This is a processional dance. Unlike the other dances which take place in one location this dance takes the dancers from one place to another.<ref name="CardiffMorris" /> It takes its name from an old Welsh carol, the tune for which was used for the melody of "[[Deck the Halls]]".