Nightlighters Dance: Midsummer Night's Dream

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.  ~Bern Williams

Dancing Gets Serious (Page Three)

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016

Nightlighter's August 2016 A Midsummer Night's Dream Dinner Dance
Felipe and Sharon, Josie and Warren, (us), Mark and Mila, Doyle and Xuegin, Darryl and Kitty, and Sam and Susan, and (not pictured: Paul and Sue, Dottie and Bruce, Ted and Lorraine, and Les and Roberta, Gary and Marion, Larry and Penny),
( Click for the full sized image 3200x2400 pixels - Courtesy of Jose!)

Quotation To Remember: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
— Puck's gleeful comment on the fallings in and out of love of Helena, Hermia, Lysander, and Demetrius.

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
The music begins and Nightlighters dance... It's in the blood!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Swinging and swaying to the Rhythm Kings

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Amazing how many people stop at the door, look in and wish...
"I want to be able to do that!"

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
They got the memo on wearing black!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
He did NOT get the memo!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
The band is keeping us very busy!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
"Hands up!"

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Swing dancing never looked so good!

Did You Know? - The term "swing dancing" is often extended to include other dances that do not have certain characteristics of traditional swing dances: West Coast Swing, Carolina Shag, East Coast Swing, Hand Dancing, Jive, Rock and Roll, Modern Jive, and other dances developed during the 1940s and later.

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Go Carmen go!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Follow their moves... If you can!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Oh dear, I forgot... Who goes under first?

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
He tells all the ladies he hasn't danced in years!"

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Yvette remembers her classes from 25 years ago!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
It's the Nightlighter's... Everybody dances!

Did You Know? - The word 'love' appears 2,191 times in the complete works. The number is based on the 1864 Globe Edition – the amount could vary slightly from edition to edition. Altogether, there are 28,829 unique word forms in all of Shakespeare's works, and 12,493 occur only once.

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
"Welcome one... Welcome all"

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
"It's OK... I have the secret notes!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Welcome guests   Warren and Josie Sterling!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Welcome guests Frank and Yvette Newnam

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Welcome to Nightlighters Dr. Thomas and Christine Hanscom

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Our Fearless Leaders & Dance Directors for next dance
The proposed theme? "Name That Tune"

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016

Did You Know? - Name That Tune is an American television game show that put two contestants against each other to test their knowledge of songs. Premiering in the United States on NBC Radio in 1952, the show was created and produced by Harry Salter and his wife Roberta.

Name That Tune ran from 1953–59 on NBC and CBS in prime time. The first hosts were Red Benson and later Bill Cullen, but George DeWitt became most identified with the show. The series finished at #30 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1956-1957 season.

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Everyone takes a short rest!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Our Membership Director is hard at work!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Back to the dance...

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Studying new steps!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Welcome Frank Newnam

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Yvette and Gary go for the gold!

Did You Know? - William Shakespeare gave us many sayings used to this very day!

All our yesterdays"— (Macbeth)
"As good luck would have it" — (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
"As merry as the day is long" — (Much Ado About Nothing / King John)
"Bated breath" — (The Merchant of Venice)
"Be-all and the end-all" — (Macbeth)
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be" — (Hamlet)
"Brave new world" — (The Tempest)
"Break the ice" — (The Taming of the Shrew)
"Brevity is the soul of wit" — (Hamlet)
"Refuse to budge an inch" — (Measure for Measure / The Taming of the Shrew)
"Cold comfort" — (The Taming of the Shrew / King John)
"Conscience does make cowards of us all" — (Hamlet)
"Crack of doom" — (Macbeth)
"Dead as a doornail" — (Henry VI Part II)
"A dish fit for the gods" — (Julius Caesar)
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" — (Julius Caesar)
"Devil incarnate" — (Titus Andronicus / Henry V)
"Eaten me out of house and home" — (Henry IV Part II)
"Faint hearted" — (Henry VI Part I)
"Fancy-free" — (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
"Forever and a day" — (As You Like It)
"For goodness' sake" — (Henry VIII)
"Foregone conclusion" — (Othello)
"Full circle" — (King Lear)
"The game is afoot" — (Henry IV Part I)
"Give the devil his due" — (Henry IV Part I)
"Good riddance" — (Troilus and Cressida)
"Jealousy is the green-eyed monster" — (Othello)
"Heart of gold" — (Henry V)
"Hoist with his own petard" — (Hamlet)
"Ill wind which blows no man to good" — (Henry IV Part II)
"In my heart of hearts" — (Hamlet)
"In my mind's eye" — (Hamlet)
"Kill with kindness" — (The Taming of the Shrew)
"Knock knock! Who's there?" — (Macbeth)
"Laughing stock" — (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
"Live long day" — (Julius Caesar)
"Love is blind" — (The Merchant of Venice)
"Milk of human kindness" — (Macbeth)
"More sinned against than sinning" — (King Lear)
"One fell swoop" — (Macbeth)
"Play fast and loose" — (King John)
"Set my teeth on edge" — (Henry IV Part I)
"Wear my heart upon my sleeve" — (Othello)
"Wild-goose chase" — (Romeo and Juliet)

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
We sent Yvette right on out in the middle of the mixer folks!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Great fun!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
They looked so professional....

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
The band's eye view ... They see it all!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
She promises not to tell!
What happens on the dance floor,
stays on the dance floor!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Checking the list...

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Freda and Sherrie enjoying the entertainment

Quotation To Remember: "Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night."   — Lysander describes to Hermia how quickly true love can be destroyed.

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
"If you elect me..... No no no! Wrong announcement..."

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
"Check your dance card and look for the picture of an orange butterfly!
If you have it, you win the centerpiece!"

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Short announcement... We are back to dancing

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Gary and Marion provide some dance instruction!

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
"We are?"

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
Stepping right on through

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016
The tables are empty... The floor is full... This is a good thing!

Nightlighter's August 2016 A Midsummer Night's Dream Dinner Dance
Your friendly photographers/webteam Paul & Sue
(Courtesy of Ted Herman)

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016

Nightlighter's Dance Club - A Midsummer Night's Dream  August 13th 2016