High Mowing School in Wilton holds May Day Festival

High Mowing circus arts and movement instructor Jon Roitman welcomes attendees to the annual May Day celebration. STAFF PHOTO BY CAMERON CASHMAN

High Mowing students openthe festivities by singing traditional folk music. STAFF PHOTO BY CAMERON CASHMAN

Members of the Flying Gravity Circus demonstrate their juggling skills. STAFF PHOTO BY CAMERON CASHMAN

High Mowing students participate in a traditional maypole dance. STAFF PHOTO BY CAMERON CASHMAN

High Mowing students demonstrate traditional Morris and maypole dancing at their annual May Day Festival Saturday. STAFF PHOTO BY CAMERON CASHMAN

Festivities included a short skit in which King and Queen Winter are banished, welcoming in spring. STAFF PHOTO BY CAMERON CASHMAN

Attendees welcome the May King and Queen. STAFF PHOTO BY CAMERON CASHMAN

The Flying Gravity Circus demonstrates unicycle tricks. STAFF PHOTO BY CAMERON CASHMAN

By CAMERON CASHMAN

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript

Published: 04-29-2024 12:13 PM

Modified: 04-30-2024 8:36 AM

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High Mowing School held its annual May Day Festival Saturday.

Students participated in several traditional festivities, including Morris dancing, a skit banishing King and Queen Winter and welcoming in spring, concluding with a maypole dance.

Members of the Flying Gravity Circus, a nonprofit youth circus program in part founded by High Mowing instructor Jon Roitman, also demonstrated several of their acts, which will be on full display at their upcoming show, “From There to Here to There,” at the Amato Performing Arts Center in Milford on May 10 and 11.