Best Strange Dance

Who can argue with a tradition that’s been handed down for centuries, has its origins in a mystical fertility ritual, and involves grown people dressed in white holding antlers on their heads? That’s the core of the solemn annual rite known as Abbott’s Bromley Horn Dance, which leapt across the Atlantic decades ago and embedded itself in Denver’s folk-dancing community. The Maroon Bells Morris Dancers perform the rite as part of the annual Winter Solabration at the Temple Events Center, and they’re faithful to the ritual. Done in good fun, participants say, the ceremony gives new meaning to the phrase “horny dancers.”