summer vacation friday five

[acroyear]

1. How are you planning to spend the summer [winter]?
home during the week, weddings on weekends. well, and hosting a SnB (well, the non-sewing Man's room part of it). Maybe catch NYRF, Pennsic, and MDRF rehearsals.

2. What was your first summer job?
Hardware store checkout clerk, summer '88. Thom McAn shoe sales, summer '89. Hotel housekeeping, summers '90 and '91.

3. If you could go anywhere this summer [winter], where would you go?
Cape Breton Island. And it'll be my answer EVERY summer 'til I finally get back there.

4. What was your worst vacation ever?
Not really sure I've ever had a bad vacation...its actually more the worst summers are the one I don't have a vacation in...though a camping weekend wasn't enough to salvage my rediculously lonely summer of '89 (selling shoes only goes so far...)

5. What was your best vacation ever?
Tie:

Hit the 13 colonies, '83. Starting in Jacksonville, driving up through all 13 colonies, hitting things like Williamsburg/Jamestown/Yorktown, Mystic Seaport, Downtown Philadelphia, the Chesapeak Bay Bridge-tunnel, downtown Boston, and along the way visiting gravesites of my colonial ancestors in Rhode Island and more...

Summer '97 (two weeks at Pinewoods, one week in Nova Scotia including CBI).

UK2K (Foggy Bottom UK tour, St. Albans, Caithness, Inverness, with intervening time in Northumbria (in a castle, no less ;-)), the Highlands of Scotland, Runrig, and some really interesting road signs...

Comments

[cybergelfling.livejournal.com]

hey, was checking out the profile and saw morris dancer. like MARK Morris Dancer... or am I confused (so much I still don't know...)

Re: Hmmm...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

no idea what "MARK" is.

Morris dancing is a british ritual dance form, going back by name at least 500 years (Shakespeare references it in a way that implies his London audience is quite familiar with it, even as the tradition itself is from his home shires in the Cotswolds). The styles we dance today were mostly recorded on paper by Cecil Sharp in the early 20th century, mostly from interviews with morris dancers who learned from their grandfathers, meaning we have style and technique guidelines going to at least the 18th century.

The style involves 2x3 set dancing (like many early Playfords) wearing bells on the shins and either waving hankies or clashing sticks about, all to music that's variations of familiar jigs and reels.

Re: Hmmm...

[cybergelfling.livejournal.com]

OH! That's really cool. Do you dance at MDRF? I'll try to catch a performance (regardless of locale) when I can. I love dancing (just can't do much myself -- stacy is NOT graceful).

Mark Morris -- that's a dance troupe. Saw them at GMU and wrote a review about it for AOL. It's interpretive modern dance that's not too bad, though if I were him I'd choose different music. The dance is beautiful... the music, passe.

Re: Hmmm...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

faireraven & I are "Cat & The Fiddle Morris"; we have 2 sets during the day of our own, usually near the front, in the Dragon Inn, or on the Boardwalk, plus we perform with the village dancers at opening gate (1030 to 1130). We're scheduled 7 weekends, all but #s 3 and 8.

Re: Hmmm...

[cybergelfling.livejournal.com]

I will DEFINITELY be there then. I knew you two were performers, but never knew what IN. :) It's terrible... I've been going to MDRF for years, but I always shopped and blathered about so much that I haven't seen most of the shows. But this year will be different!

(the fact that we live in Manassas doesn't help. We used to only make faire about 3 times per season... going to try and make more weekends this year!)