TRADITIONALLY, on May 1 communities perform a maypole dance, around a tall pole hung with ribbons that are woven into patterns by the dancers. Such dances are survivals of ancient dances around a ...

4) My experience of Molly Dancing in the 1930s was in Salford ... up in their best frocks if they had them, and parade round with a maypole with ribbons. My wife, who was from Nelson, tells ...

Many of the dances were associated with traditional customs and rituals, such as dancing round the Maypole. Performance: Both of today’s sequences are linked for a final performance. Cool down ...