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Dancing Round the Maypole
Book and CD set, £20
Maypole and country dance instruction manual
This 96-page book has been used
by thousands of schools across the country since it was first published in 1999
(current revised edition, 2004) and continues to be extremely popular.
Contents include instructions for
10 maypole dance figures, a ribbon dance and 12 country dances, all fully
illustrated with photographs and diagrams, and a teaching script for the
absolute beginner.
The book also contains a wealth
of helpful tips and suggestions; historical information and background to the
dances; tunes for the dances; and full instructions on how to make your own
wooden maypole, as well as advice on buying ready-made maypoles.
Although written with teachers in
mind, this book is also appropriate for dance leaders working with groups of
all ages in many community contexts as well as with children and young people
in schools. Maypole dancing is suitable and enjoyable for children and adults
of all ages from around 5 years up.
The book is accompanied by a CD of
music specially chosen to support the teaching of the dances.
Maypole dance figures included in the book are:
Barber’s
Pole; Single Plait; Double Plait; Spider’s Web; Gypsy’s Tent; Three in Hand; The
Chrysanthemum; The Suttlecock; Roundabout; Accumulator; Ribbon dancing without
a maypole
Country dances included are:
The Swing; Black
Jack; French Weeding; Green Stockings; Lucky Seven; Circassian Circle; Russian
Ballet; Tom Pate; Ffarwel Marian; Pines Parade; Ideal Schottische; Danish
Double Quadrille; Wring Out the Dishrag
Music on the accompanying CD by Light Fantastic & Devil Among The
Tailors
Helen Morris; Vic Godrich; Leigh Dyer; Rachel Taylor; David Bradley
CD tracks are: - Introduction to Traditional Music
Structures
- Entrance: May
Day: Miss McLeod's
- Taking
the Ribbons: Speed the Plough
- Barber's
Pole: Sweets of May
- Single
or Double Plait In and Out the Windows: Kitty McGee
- Spider's
Web: Twenty Ninth of May
- Gypsy's
Tent: Haste to the Wedding, Hundred Pipers
- Three
in Hand: Hey Ding a Ding, Moll O' the Wood
- Additional
Maypole Music: Merry Month of May
- Lead
off: May Day: Miss McLeod's
- Black
Jack: Black Jack
- French
Wedding: La Bastringue, Les Fraises et les Framboises
- Green
Stockings: New Rigged Ship, Pet of the Pipers
- Lucky
Seven: Ap Shenkin, The Flight, The Quaker's Wife
- Circassian
Circle: Good Humour, The Irish Washerwoman
- Russian Ballet: Lady
Hepburn Belches, The British Grenadiers
- Tom
Pate: The Nutting Girl, The Tempest
- Ffarwel
Marion: The Greenwood Tree, Cease your Funning
- Pines
Parade: Heel and Toe Polka, Hunt the Squirrel
- Ideal
Schottische: Shetland Polka, Laddie
- Danish Double
Quadrille: Double Quadrille, Dublebska Polka, Honey Harbour, Double
Quadrille
- Wring
Out the Dishrag: Hestleyside Ride, Liverpool Hornpipe
Book and CD can be bought as separate items:
Dancing
Round the Maypole Book
Dancing
Round the Maypole CD
Written by Diana Campbell Jewitt
(with input from Chris Turner)
ISBN: 978-0-85418-189-6
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