Missy - Supplemental a Fair and a Dance

 This week I had 2 encounters that I will generously interpret as Shakespearean. 

The first was a new dance from the Playford Dance Master book called Hole in the Wall. 

Here is a decidedly Regency version that is mostly correct (right music and mostly right moves). 

And here is another where they didn’t have to worry about plot and closeups so did All the right moves. 

This dance is much more mathematical and had a bonus introduction us to sharking. 

Sharking is when you cut in on someone but you are elegant and flirty about it. 

I am wretched at sharking but it certainly added an athleticism to our dancing that we’d managed to avoid heretofore. 

I’m looking forward to the party and have been 3D printing and sewing bits up to be ready. 

I am going as Titania’s lady-in-waiting Moth, so I’m adding wings and elements to a late Tudor gown that look fairy like or moth like depending. 

Probably my favorite thing about all of this is that Moth may be an early typo/ bad read by Blake. It’s possible that the character is supposed to be Mote and in the play represented by a disembodied off stage voice. 

I feel delighted that I might, in fact, be going to a Midsummers Nights Dream party as a Shakespearean typo/misunderstanding!

Also my sweet and long suffering husband has agreed to let me dress him up and I’m all excited about being matchy matchy errors. 

My other “Shakespearean” encounter of the week happened because we went to the Renaissance Fair  on Saturday. 

I love it so much. 

It’s one of the many reasons I love living in Maryland. 

Maryland has a bangin Ren Fair. 

We ate not at all Elizabethan food. 

 Went to see genuine Shakespeare inspired entertainment. 

Watched and listened to artisans and musicians do Jacobian style feats of wonder. 

I Pretended to be pirate Hamlet.

And finally, we hung out in period style theaters and laughed and were amazed by players, sword swallowers and jugglers. 

Much of the point of this Shakespeare project for me is simply to enjoy as audiences did the works of the bard and I think the Fair was a delightful taste of that atmosphere (minus bear bating and cockfights). 

A grand time was had by all.