Maypole Dance

[@emmsue1053]

We did this in primary school. UK.. Smaller scale but very enjoyable, nice to see it back. There are many different weaves.

[@bubbatheking9225]

The Puritans hated Maypoles. Dance, eat, drink, and be merry!!!

[@abundantharmony]

Bc it's penis worship.

[@CSharpRenan]

That's because having fun is a pagan thing.

[@bubbatheking9225]

@@CSharpRenan Dig it. I am a pagan of the most pagan order.

[@sonshinethomas7986]

Well, I'm a Christian but love a great may pole. Merry meet. Thank you for sharing!!!! Bless yall. Never seen so many do a ribbon dance.

[@heatherpayne1995]

Because they hated everything fun.

[@zerowhite2286]

Looks like fun. Not maypole traditional dancing as I know it, but hey it’s a maypole and they are dancing, so carry on!

[@SafetyMentalst]

All the April showers have gone away Finally in the month of May kids play Around a May pole first day of May They laugh with joy together all day Around an round a May pole in May

[@StephanieJordan-qc7uu]

I remember this in elementary school it was fun.

[@bashkillszombies]

Maypole dances are not weird cheerleader skits along with awkward walking. Idk what this is but it's not maypole dancing.

[@jaynej9924]

The hanky waving at the beginning is from Cotswolds Morris tradition.

[@jaynej9924]

@Boujie Pickle I’ve no idea, maybe it’s a girls school. Cotswold Morris was until very recently strictly a male activity. These people are amalgamating traditions.

[@childhooddreamer6975]

I Rodger that.

[@brianneale2006]

this is not true maypole dancing No way

[@chrisnewton9670]

The dance they did up to the actual maypole dancing is called Morris dancing. They just lack bells.

[@jillohara3121]

The Girl Scouts did a Maypole dance when I lived in Oklahoma once.

[@Cyndithia68]

Maypole danced at Paganel road junior school around 1964.

[@schmeerical]

The location next to noisy, busy traffic kind of defeats the idea of the Rights of Spring and glorification of rebirth of nature.

[@adultButterfly88]

Maypole dancing is NOT meant to be this slow!!! You're also meant to skip, not walk, around the maypole to the music of accordians with patterned midi (to the knee or below) skirts. This is a British tradition, and although I greatly appreciate the work and effort gone into the dance above, I am dissapointed that it isn't represented correctly. This is part of our heritage and the look and feel of it is completely wrong. :( By the time this video was finished the children should have been able to create two or three different patterns, tightly wound around the pole, AND have danced them back out to be in the first position of the dance. I'm not one to ever delcare 'cultural appropriation' but somehow I feel this fits the bill. The whole purpose and meaning behind it is completely lost. However, in saying this I do honestly greatly appreciate that the practise of the dance is still being remembered and used. It'd be a great shame if this was completely lost!

[@adultButterfly88]

Sarah Hazlett that sounds like an amazing plan and would be wonderful to see them forming the patterns! It’s for all ages tbh! It’d be lovely to get some guys doing some Morris dancing (I’m not sure the history of it but it seems to be a dance only males do?!).

[@JudithProctor]

Actually, and I'm speaking as someone who's tried to do some real research into maypole dancing, it's not a British tradition in origin. The earliest English maypole dance with ribbons was only 160 years ago. (maypoles without ribbons go much further back, but are also a tradition we share with Europe) Maypole with ribbons is a tradition that we imported from Spain and France via the London stage. It's widespread in other European countries - there are maypole dances in Italy, Germany, Portugal, etc. They took their traditional dances to Latin America, which has a fantastic collection of 'maypole' dances right across the continent. If you want to see the best maypole dancing in the world, go to Brazil. They do really complex moves, with great precision, with adults in traditional Spanish costumes. They use totally different music to us Brits. With that many children, I'm not surprised they went for a walking performance. Keeping that many children synchronised is a nightmare, and slowing them down and calling it every time reduces the risk. You know how it is with plaits, just one kid makes one mistake weaving it, and you can't undo it. I've seen a video of the traditional German maypole dance - performed by adults, men in lederhosen and women in dirndls - where one of the 200 performers made a mistake and the dance failed on the undo. That dance, by the way, is traditionally danced to a walking waltz, not a jig.

[@livw3090]

@@JudithProctor I've read that pagan anglo saxons used to celebrate the coming of spring by tying ribbons to trees and dancing around them, i'm pretty sure the tradition is much older than 160 years. England is a germanic region so yes the traditions are very related to scandinavia and germany.

[@JudithProctor]

@@livw3090 Dancing round the maypole does indeed go back far more than 160 years in England. Decorating the poles is also a part of that old tradition. But weaving the ribbons round the pole is a Southern European tradition that we imported around 160 years ago. If you look at earlier English maypole images, they are always of decorated poles, but the dancers are not holding ribbons. Roy Judge did some excellent research if you can track down any of his articles on Jstor or similar.

[@livw3090]

@@JudithProctor Ah thank you! I'll have to look more into that

[@tompsara1177]

i litarle did this 2 days ago this is a tradition at my school

[@giddeo]

Funny to see how many people are getting upset about how this isn't a REAL maypole dance, like it's some form of low-grade cultural theft. It's a maypole, people are dancing around it, criteria filled.

[@tuttyfat]

Gatekeeping poledancing lol

[@kellykelleher7321]

Beautiful 😍 💖✨️💫💐🕺💃⭐️🌺🌹🌼🦋💖

[@WelshRabbit]

Where was this? My school (in North Carolina) did Maypole dances since time immemorial. This was a rite of passage for 3d graders at the end of the school year around the first of May. I did it in 1956, though with a bit more lively pace and music.

[@finight9]

I did it in 1955 at an even more lively musical pace than that, so...

[@Bright-It]

@@finight9 I thought it was a German (Bavarian) tradition.

[@JudithProctor]

@@Bright-It Many European countries have their own maypole dances. This isn't the Bandertanz though. The moves and the music are different to what you'd seen in Germany.

[@moist_onions]

Carolina is barely 300 years old I don’t think any tradition done there is from time immemorial

[@WelshRabbit]

@@moist_onions Maybe. Immemorial -- "time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." Time is somewhat relative (even in the non-Einsteinian perspective). When I lived in California, "last Tuesday" was a long time ago, and "last year" was ancient history. NC claims its beginnings with the Sir Walter Raleigh voyages and his sponsored settlements, and the Lost Colony of 1585, though the official Charter of Carolina to the Eight Lords Proprietors was not granted until 1663 by Chas. II. The settlers brought with them many of their traditions of the old country -- including the Maypole, and even the occasional group of Morris (or "Morys" if you're a really hardcore traditionalist) Dancers.

[@archiegrills8914]

Look at Torrington may pole

[@lasalleman6792]

First time I've ever actually seen one. I knew about 'em; just never seen a real maypole dance.

[@newjacket44]

Why yall salty about the bad dance? Midsommar proved it could be a *lot* worse.

[@YOTSUBA_desu]

@@nodruj8681 Cope, traditions are worthless if they can't entertain me

[@YOTSUBA_desu]

@@nodruj8681 Living better than any p*gan

[@texuztweety]

Great video, thank you!!

[@leahtaylor2840]

how did you make the maypole?

[@VickersV]

Shi mann

[@alandrialewis4]

Rock on

[@mikefiftynine]

When we do this we're all naked.

[@MaggieMuuu]

like .

[@Beb_2199]

in the Summerisle, Summerisle, Summerisle, Summerisle...

[@MrMarkhall1]

Is this Pagan?

[@YorkyOne]

@@MrMarkhall1 No. Why should it be?

[@brianneale2006]

This is not the true Maypole dance to see a true maypole dance one must go to Britain or England to see one to one of the lovely villages where they have a Maypole

[@traceyculyer5811]

Yes you are right

[@LorraineHatrix]

That is NOT a true Maypole dance

[@archiegrills8914]

You are so right

[@tuttyfat]

Gatekeeping Maypole dancing...now I've read everything lol

[@thedruiddiaries6378]

Wonderful!

[@SOS-ct9mv]

no music or dancing I'm confused and it looks like a school with a lot of money.

[@bashkillszombies]

It looks like a pretty regular lower middle class school to me. You must be from shithole-istan.

[@alicecheshire2672]

bashpr0mpt why do you keep spreading hate on every maypole dancing video? If you don’t like them so much just stop watching no one is forcing you to do so

[@cavan2664]

Oh dear.

[@phoebecatgirl933]

That's not enough!

[@diannemorgan-smith2245]

No music? O Dear......

[@karentan9790]

No song

[@ericcaires6423]

Were the beer I don't see no damn beer in the mille of that maypole lol

[@kijetesantakaluSokete]

came here from midsommar

[@Nari-zc8ml]

WHAT THE HECK IS THIS!!!

[@Shntiwahaha]

Waypole dancing

[@graytv-7345]

Tradition

[@teachergreen7980]

Where was this?

[@lucindagaskill4519]

There are too bunched up

[@YTfoxygame]

Our class did 1 2 3 hello

[@erichatter8692]

I had to watch this for school. It was hell.

[@xflora-chanx]

It's pagan and I was forced to do this at first school in England. I am a Jehovah's witness now and baptised. It was a horror to do such a thing aggent Jehovah God in the Bible which was out of my control 🤢 same with Christmas and birthdays all pagan all part of Satan

[@Alfred5555]

@@xflora-chanx How are these things part of Satan? Especially birthdays? I've never heard that one before. Christianity didn't appear over night in the whole world, it only started 2000 years ago and spread from Christ. People worshipped God for 100,000 years before he revealed himself in Christ, I don't know why he waited until 2000 years ago, but before that he only gave his grace to the Israelites and so how can you condemn all the other people Christ died for, for choosing to worship God as best as they knew how without God helping them? Anyway, Christ didn't condemn pagans, he just told them that now God is here they can worship him properly, the only time he criticise pagan practises is when he accuse them of rambling and saying many pointless words while praying thinking that saying more words makes God hear their prayers any louder, but Christ's disciples fully acknowledged that they were all praying to the Father, Jehovah whether they knew it or not. This all Jesus has to say about gentile pagans, Mathew 6:7. Here are some other thoughts from the Bible. 1 Corinthians 10:25-30. Acts 14:15-17. Acts 28:28. Romans 9:22-30. 1 Peter 4:3-6. There are many more examples of how the pagans/gentiles are not innately evil, only the worst practises of human sacrifice are condemned, but other than they they are viewed as just ignorant and only live a lewd life because they don't know what God wants for them.

[@silverkitty2503]

@@xflora-chanx Why are you watching this video then?? Stop watching things that you consider to be evil.

[@gregthompson704]

I didn’t go to Australia

[@gregthompson704]

I didn’t go to Australia 🇦🇺

[@ethansteele2689]

What?

[@kellyvoigt9453]

Can you please provide more information - what is this for? Where is it? How old are the kids? Where did these dances come from? Thanks!!

[@janebellmyer5238]

we used to do this every year in elementary school. The Maypole Dance was probably the first time you held a boy's hand...ewwwwww LOL

[@kaiedwards845]

Maypole dancing is a form of folk dancefrom Germany, England, and Sweden! The kids here look young and quite a lot of schools teach it from a young age, I'm from England and I remember doing it at school. I'm not quite sure where these kids are from though!

[@lucifendi4737]

Maypole at my school was done only by girls, was this just the school I went to?

[@brody5211]

It’s a tribute to the wicker man

[@foxceles]

Maypoles are english but like Probs Anglo-Saxon..im gonna say northern/northwestish europe?

[@modernmaane2678]

Is it the May Pole or Male Pole? May be it's may pole 'lief belief I.e. be the iF in liFe the IF in thleF. be lief is be life is be lie'f. simple.

[@modernmaane2678]

hahaha proovin the belief is be lief is be life is be lie'f IS belief that thar' be life

[@modernmaane2678]

This could very well be symbolic captain of the male phallus and his SEA MEN. It is the MaLe PoLe

[@ajrwilde14]

right by a main road, real serene...not

[@peggyochoa7298]

A sport for liberals no one getting hurt lol

[@dico1981]

Absolute rubbish

[@tindrawyrd3549]

This is bad...

[@cdbd18]

This is sad they don't even realize they are doing a worship damned unto ishtar asherah or the queen of Heaven was it not told you of old you shall worship YAHUAH your ELOHIYM and no other

[@tiffparz8749]

It’s a tradition fertility celebration that far predates christianity

[@YorkyOne]

​@@tiffparz8749 No it isn't - the earliest reference to the maypole is from the mid 1300's. It was a focal point for community celebrations to welcome in the warmer months.

[@tiffparz8749]

@@YorkyOne exactly, and what goes along with the rebirth of everything in the spring ? Fertility ! It has pagan / naturalistic roots… celebration of spring. ✌️

[@YorkyOne]

@@tiffparz8749 Well, no doubt Mr & Mrs Caveman welcomed in the warm weather and the new growth - so if you wish to call such celebrations 'pagan' that's fine by me. But your original comment referred to the video which shows maypole dancing with ribbons. I simply pointed out that there is no evidence that maypoles are much older than the Middle Ages. And the ribbon type dance as shown in the video is early 19th century.

[@MrMarkhall1]

Where was this?