The dance with the sticks held between the legs sounds a bit like one of the spoof versions of "Bean Setting" which was called "Tool Setting" there was also a Monty Python style one, "Brain Setting", where they wore knotted hankies on their heads and hit each other with rolled up newspapers to shouts of "My Brain Hurts". In the best version I saw of the latter, the penultimate man had a proper stick and the last man wore a tin helmet, so that you got Thunk-Thunk-Thunk-Thunk-Clang !   I have a feeling that these dances came from either Albion or Great Western morris sides.