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

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

@abundantharmony

Жыл бұрын

Bc it's penis worship.

@CSharpRenan

Жыл бұрын

That's because having fun is a pagan thing.

@bubbatheking9225

Жыл бұрын

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

@sonshinethomas7986

11 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

Because they hated everything fun.

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

I remember this in elementary school it was fun.

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

@jaynej9924

4 жыл бұрын

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

@jaynej9924

3 жыл бұрын

@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

3 жыл бұрын

I Rodger that.

@brianneale2006

3 жыл бұрын

this is not true maypole dancing No way

@chrisnewton9670

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

Maypole danced at Paganel road junior school around 1964.

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@Bright-It

2 жыл бұрын

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

@JudithProctor

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

@WelshRabbit

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

Great video, thank you!!

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

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

Beautiful 😍 💖✨️💫💐🕺💃⭐️🌺🌹🌼🦋💖

Look at Torrington may pole

Is this Pagan?

how did you make the maypole?

Rock on

Where was this?

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

@YOTSUBA_desu

2 жыл бұрын

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

@YOTSUBA_desu

Жыл бұрын

@@nodruj8681 Living better than any p*gan

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

5 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

3 жыл бұрын

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

Wonderful!

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

2 жыл бұрын

Gatekeeping poledancing lol

Oh dear.

like .

Shi mann

I didn’t go to Australia

@gregthompson704

6 жыл бұрын

I didn’t go to Australia 🇦🇺

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

@bashkillszombies

4 жыл бұрын

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

@alicecheshire2672

4 жыл бұрын

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

No music? O Dear......

That's not enough!

No song

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

Yes you are right

When we do this we're all naked.

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

@xflora-chanx

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@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

10 ай бұрын

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

Our class did 1 2 3 hello

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

6 жыл бұрын

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

6 жыл бұрын

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

6 жыл бұрын

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

@brody5211

5 жыл бұрын

It’s a tribute to the wicker man

@foxceles

5 жыл бұрын

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

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

That is NOT a true Maypole dance

@archiegrills8914

2 жыл бұрын

You are so right

@tuttyfat

2 жыл бұрын

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

There are too bunched up

What?

came here from midsommar

WHAT THE HECK IS THIS!!!

@shancostales4447

Жыл бұрын

Waypole dancing

@graytv-7345

6 ай бұрын

Tradition

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@modernmaane2678

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

A sport for liberals no one getting hurt lol

Absolute rubbish

This is bad...

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

Жыл бұрын

It’s a tradition fertility celebration that far predates christianity

Where was this?