In 2002 the HUGE family of Dancing Giants visited 18 rural communities on Dartmoor, Exmoor and in West Devon, visiting schools during the daytime and entertaining young and old alike in the evenings on school playgrounds, quays, outside visitor centres and on playing fields. We visited a balloon festival in Tavistock, danced with a samba band in Welcombe and opened a wind turbine at Pinkery.
A motor bike convention upstaged us at Watchet, we got soaked in Princetown and nearly blew over on the top of Exmoor.

We entertained 2 brand new giants, made with Wendy’s help, in workshops with local people and summer visitors . The aurochs in Porlock is an imaginative resurrection of aurochs bones dated around 3000BC uncovered on Porlock beach when the shingle bank was breached in 1997. She is painted with local mud. Old Harry of Tarr Steps, Dulverton’s giant, is a devilish fellow with 14ft. long legs, grackly wings and hideously garish shorts. They say he built the medieval clapper over the river Barle to sunbathe on.

Approximately 3000 folk of all ages came to hear stories - not any old stories, but the local legends - tales of the neighborhood - ghosts, witches, pirates, barrow wights, dark pools, and of course giants. They danced with the giants and sang a lullaby together to send the baby Tavy to sleep.