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A Maypole was used in the festival of Lupercalia in the show Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix

A Maypole dance took place for the winner being crowned the May Queen in a horror film called Midsommar

A Maypole is noticeably featured in Doctor Who serial

In Frozen, the villagers raised a Maypole while the camera tracks through Arendelle because of Elsa's coronation

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There are 2 types of Maypole dancing, the first one involves dancers executing a circle dance around a garland-festooned pole also, this type of Maypole dance is the most popular. For the second type, the dancers will proceed in a circle movement while each holding a colored ribbon that is linked to a small pole. Since the dancers are holding the ribbon while moving in a circle, the pole will create a web or a plait then to let the pole lose the dancers would have to rewind their steps.

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The first type of Maypole dance may have originated from Germany pagan because of the fertility rituals they do to change a couple's chance of conceiving. At first they didn’t use a pole; it was actually a tree instead. When the dancers in Germany performed the Maypole dance on the first day of May but since the dance got more popular people in Sweden started performing it in midsummer celebration. The second Maypole dance started in the 18th Century and quickly became a popular traditional or creative dance in Italy and France. After sometime the dancers travelled in troops and staged the Maypole dance to a bigger audience, which later made the dance become the repertoire of physical education for girls and very popular in elementary schools all over England and the United States.

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There was a Maypole in the music video "The Safety Dance" by new wave band Men Without Hat

The Maypole celebration has been cancelled for the second year due to coronavirus, which leaves Ellie Wilson another year to be crowned May Queen. This year the Maypole Committee decided to gather for a socially distanced afternoon tea instead.

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Men Without Hats - Safety Dance (Official Music Video)

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Other countries that do the Maypole dance and how it started:

Malta - They introduced Maypole dance to their Maltese Carnival in 1721.

United States - In 1628, William Bradford wrote of an incident where a number of servants decided to break free from their indentured services to create their own colony and they set up a Maypole dance in the center of the settlement.

Canada - They have been doing Maypole dance to celebrate Mayday for 149 years now.

Jamaica - During their independence  day celebrations in 1962, 63 villages agreed to have Maypole dancing as a part of their celebrations.

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All Maypole music has to do with the strings and woodwind family, yet there's Maypole music that consists of  the brass family which is more commonly heard than music with percussion families.

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Maypole Dance -  RCA Victor Folk Dance Orchestra

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Most music is a live orchestra despite that there is a pretty popular CD by Stradivarious that includes Maypole Dance Reels (used for all Maypole dances), Maypole Dance Hornpipes (used for step-hop-step-hop rhythm dances), Maypole Dance Jigs (used for any type of Maypole dances) and Maypole Dance Waltzes (used for more slower Maypole dances).

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The pole is the male principle and the ribbons represent the female aspect. The pole was traditionally made from the trunk of a fir tree but depending on the tradition the tree can be oak or others pine however, the most important aspects of the tree are the height and the length. Instead of using a tree you can use a flagpole if the dance takes place indoors. The ribbons need to be twice as long as the pole also has to be two or three inches wide and you need enough to have two equal numbers for the two colors of ribbon.

The color of the ribbon representations :

Red - God

White - Virgin Goddess

Green - Forest

Gold - Sun

Purple - Grapes and wine

Rainbow - Zodiac signs

Other - A blessing the dancers wished for

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Example of what they would wear to do the Maypole dance

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The Maypole dance is used to celebrate May day which takes place on the 1st of May. It is used on that day because May day is about celebrating spring and doing traditions. However, the Maypole dance itself represents the union of the masculine and feminine, which is an important theme to May day because of its historical Pagan footprint .