Keep scrolling down to see Maypole videos and other Maypole information. If this is your first visit to Squidoo, a big hearty welcome. Have fun! And thank you for visiting!
Photo Courtesy of the Pendleton District Commission
May Pole Dance Music on MP3
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Twitter Maypole conversations
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- raustin_berry
- and if I start to follow my followers, won't we all be going round in circles? like some kind of virtual maypole dance?
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- VouxCroux
- @REsunglasses Which model sunglasses did Don Draper wear to the Maypole event? Thx
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- NatashaHunt
- @charlieroper will check it on computer properly. Still resent the brownies for not letting me maypole dance when I was 6
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- fleurets
- Maypole, Buxted, East Sussex Ref S-910884 http://www.fleurets.com/
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- LizDanforth
- @TheCreide I call that "the Corgi maypole dance" when they do it to me
Have you ever danced around the Maypole?
WhitePineLane wrote...
There's Maypole dancing every year at the Land of the Loon Festival near our cabin in northern Minnesota! It's great fun!
Posted October 18, 2009
grannysage wrote...
Ah yes, mylady, we dance the Maypole at out Beltane celebrations. You are right about it being a fertility rite, sometimes the lads and lassies get a wee bit carried away!
Posted September 02, 2009
Gill N. wrote
I have just been reminded of my maypole days by an Indian display of Maypole Dancing in Hyde Park at a festival. I was a fifties child in a West Riding School in Yorkshire, where we always celebrated May Day with a May Queen and country dancing, which we practised all year. It was always a special occasion, and I still have some photos.
Posted August 20, 2009
JaguarJulie wrote...
Do you know that I was just contemplating the maypole dance? And, wondering if they still do this?
Posted August 13, 2009
Minda wrote
in reply to stargazer00 It is really a beautiful sight to see the Maypole done with the different colored streamers swaying the breeze. The videos just don't do it justice.
Posted May 11, 2009
stargazer00 wrote...
I've heard of it but never actually seen it done. Looks like a beautiful tradition. Love the photos of your class!
Posted April 26, 2009
CCGAL wrote...
This was my first exposure outside of books to the Maypole dance. I'd seen something similar at a small renfest, but they didn't wrap the pole; the ribbons rotated with the dancers there. Way cool lens!
Posted April 19, 2009
MsSnow4a wrote...
Hi joan, Nice lens about Maypoles. hehe. Must be a great month. May that is lol I have not danced around a maypole that I can remember. Maybe someday :)
Posted April 02, 2009
Tiddledeewinks wrote...
Never done it before. Wish we had more of the "olden" days things like that. There seems to be some things of yesteryear returning now though.
Posted March 30, 2009
julcal wrote...
Oh, I had forgotten about this tradition, thanks for the sweet reminder ! 5*
Posted March 13, 2009
sittonbull wrote...
"Confessions of a male teenage pole dancer" would not read nearly as exciting as it sounds! I remember it was required curriculum in grade school on May Day!
You can rest assured I would have a lot more "fun" with it today, but was not too enthused about it then!
Posted February 23, 2009
OhMe wrote...
in reply to GrowWear Can you believe that the one photo we found was one of Joan's 4th grade class dancing the May Pole? Amazing
Posted February 23, 2009
OhMe wrote...
Oh Joan, I remember it like it was yesterday, too. Our class did it to the music "Sugar in the morning, Sugar in the evening, Sugar at supertime. Be my little Sugar and love me all the time". The theme was the 48 states. lol and we were Texas and my partner, Scott Peterson, and I had to wear Lavender Gingham. I never did like that color and my partner certainly didn't. lol
Posted January 30, 2009
mukunda22 wrote...
Isn't the May Pole dance associated with May Day?
Faved and high fived!!
Posted January 30, 2009
Joan4 wrote...
in reply to Evelyn_Saenz oh flowers and fiddlers!!!!!! I love it! wonderful!
Posted January 30, 2009
Joan4 wrote...
in reply to Charlyjl lol Charly! I got excited and did it about 4 months early. It is a traditional spring dance, first of May! I just had so much fun watching that first video and remembering it, that I just went ahead and shared! Thanks for visiting!
Posted January 30, 2009
Evelyn_Saenz wrote...
When we homeschooled in Boston we always danced the Maypole. We helped the kids string flowers to wear in their hair and had a few fiddlers play the music for us. We had a wonderful time with children, teens and adults all joining in.
Thank you, Joan for the memories.
Posted January 30, 2009
Charlyjl wrote...
We don't do the Maypole Dance here. I've certainly seen it performed though. Maybe it's because it's Winter here!
Posted January 30, 2009
KathrynGrayson wrote...
too neat! great lens Mom! I need to learn to Maypole Dance!
Posted January 30, 2009
- Directions to Maypole dance
- Skipping Circle Maypole Dance
To begin, participants stand shoulder to shoulder, about 2 feet (60cm) apart, facing center, in a large circle.
If you are going to dance around a Maypole have one long streamer per person attached at least head high on the pole. When dancers come into the center in part A. each person picks up a streamer and takes it back out to the edge of the circle, holding it in their right hand, (or if a loop has been added to the end of the streamer it can be slipped on the right wrist), for the rest of the dance.
If you use streamers, it is best not to move in and out of the circle till the very last part of coming into the circle a final time, then dropping the streamers and moving backward to the full circle for the closing.
Pendleton Elementary Fourth Grade Class - 1953
Photo Courtesy of the Pendleton District Commission
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