Maypole Dancing for Disabled Dancers Article
Maypole dancing with disabled people The notes offered here are the result of over 50 years’ experience of making music and dance happen for people with and without disabilities. The phrase maypole dance is used to refer to the dances using a fixed pole with long ribbons which became so popular from the late 1800sl. […]
Maypoles Around the World
On page 9 of The Maypole Manual you may notice a sketch by Canaletto, depicting the Jubilee Ball, as it appeared May 24th 1759. This image on first glance shows the first picture of maypole ribbons in use in the UK. However, there has been some controversy around this image, and whether the image is […]
Pagan Maypoles
The May-Pole of Merry Mount Background A short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It first appeared in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir in 1836 and was later included in Twice-Told Tales, a collection of Hawthorne’s short stories, in 1837. It tells the story of the colony of Mount Wollaston, or Merry Mount, a 17th-century British colony […]
Maypole History – A New Way of Looking at Maypole Heritage
If you had been in Rome in March of 354AD you may have been lucky enough to see a musical and dancing procession bearing rushes to a sacred building. Any self respecting morris dancer of the Lancashire tradition would have felt at home. However, this was no church, but a pre-Christian temple that was the […]