Morris dancing is an English folk dance based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures. The dancers wear different clothes depending on the part of the country they come from, but most of them are dressed in white with coloured belts across their chests. There are usually six or eight dancers arranged in two lines or in a circle facing each other. The dancer may carry white handkerchiefs that they shake, or short sticks that they bang against each other as they dance. Some dancers have bells tied at their knees, which make a loud and cheerful rythm as they dance.