🇧🇧 Have you ever seen the Maypole Dance? 💡 The Barbados Landship gave spectators at the Crop Over Launch and Ceremonial Delivery of the Last Canes a spectacle as they performed the ceremonial folk dance which involves ribbons woven into complex patterns around a tall pole through dance. ⁣ #ComeOverFuhCropOver #CropOver2019 #MoreThanACarnival #SweetFuhDays #BarbadosCropOverHUB #FuhDeCulture #CropOverCorrect #RoadToGrandKadoomentDay | The Barbados Crop Over HUB

When last you maypole? Maypole dance is a traditional folk dance that's done around a tall pole, with dancers weaving a pattern around it using ribbons. Can't go to leeward and not...... shake a leg and take in a bit of arwe culture. For first timers, Christal and Moralis did well! 👏 #maypole #maypoledancing #tradition #stvincentandthegrenadines #saintvincentandthegrenadines #vc3tv #vc3 | VC3

𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 🎭 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗸 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 (Day 2) Trinity Primary School (St. Mary) performs Maypole. Maypole dance involves the plaiting of different coloured ribbons demonstrating the three basic traditional patterns starting with the grand chain or “basket weave” wrapping the ribbons around the pole from the top. The plaiting continues away from the pole in a three (3) or four (4) plait braid depending on the number of dancers and ending

As part of VI History Month, St. Croix Educational Complex Social Studies class on Thursday did the maypole dance with a cultural twist. The dance was instructed by Valrica Bryson, director of Cultural Education at D.O.E. | The Virgin Islands Consortium