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Category Archives: 4 Face 4 Dances
Three Out Of Four Ain’t Bad – 4 Face 4 – Don Veino 20180829
Type: Contra Dance, 4 Facing 4 Status: Proven Another of my “extra swings” dances – you get to swing with 3 out of the 4 opposite role dancers in your set without resorting to tricks like ending one swing mid-phrase … Continue reading
Posted in 4 Face 4 Dances, Contra, Dance, My Dances, Proven
Tagged contra, contra dance, Dance, extra swings, line/4, ring/8, roll away, star
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So Long and Thanks for All the Fish – 4 Face 4 – Don Veino 20180528
Type: Contra Dance, 4 Facing 4 – single progression, alternating sides Status: Proven I’ve become slightly obsessed with Dolphin Hey dances. In this case I was striving for one that automatically alternates who gets to act as the traveling pair, … Continue reading
Posted in 4 Face 4 Dances, Contra, Contra Dances, Dance, My Dances, Proven
Tagged contra, contra dance, Dance, dolphin hey, hey, ring/8, sapphire sea, weave the ring
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Wild Mouse – 4 Face 4 – Don Veino 20170823
Type: Contra Dance, 4 Face 4 Status: DRAFT, EXPERIMENTAL This sequence re-imagines the B parts from my dance Lobster Roll. I wanted to find another way of resolving a 4 Face 4 than has been done to date. Originally I … Continue reading
Posted in 4 Face 4 Dances, Contra, Dance, DRAFT, Experimental, My Dances
Tagged contra, contra dance, Dance, give and take, mad robin, petronella, RH Chain
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Lobster Roll – 4 Face 4 – Don Veino 20170823
Type: Contra Dance, 4 Face 4 Status: DRAFT This sequence re-uses a concept I’d first developed for a down the hall dance Strolling & Rolling. When thinking about the commonality of facing lines/4 and a line/4 down the hall I … Continue reading
Posted in 4 Face 4 Dances, Contra, Dance, My Dances, Proven
Tagged contra, contra dance, Dance, hey, long lines, mad robin, petronella, RH Chain, roll away
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Strolling & Rolling – Becket – Don Veino 20170725
Type: Contra Dance, Becket Left/CW Status: DRAFT This dance sprang out of my interest in doing something unique out of a Partner Roll Away. I’ve experienced other callers’ attempts at making a roll away feed something with Partner focus like … Continue reading
Posted in 4 Face 4 Dances, Contra, Dance, DRAFT, My Dances
Tagged circle, contra, contra dance, Dance, down the hall, hey, RH Chain
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Sage Thoughts – 4 Face 4 – Don Veino 20170315
Type: 4 Facing 4 Status: Proven, reviewing B1 timing This dance’s feature sequence is all in the Bs. My wife, Sage, really liked the feel of the Butterfly Whirl in my dance Give the Gents a Whirl (where Ladies whirl … Continue reading
Posted in 4 Face 4 Dances, Contra Dances, My Dances, Proven
Tagged Butterfly Whirl, contra dance, Star Promenade
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Traditions With Benefits [V3] – 4 Face 4 – Don Veino 20151004
Type: 4 Facing 4 Status: Proven but REVISED since My experiment with adopting the signature move of Dan Pearl’s contra Beneficial Tradition (flowing from Cor Hogendijk’s English dance Pat’s Tradition) into a 4 Face 4 format. Note this dance never … Continue reading
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Tagged Beneficial Tradition, Pat's Tradition, Roundabout
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Seasons 8 – 4 Face 4 – Don Veino 20161204
Type: 4 Facing 4 Status: DRAFT, Experimental (Contra dancers doing a Pass the Sea?) Tune suggestion: Thomas Shrug’s March This is one of several of my dances in a series of “Oceans” and “Seasons” compositions which bring Ocean or Sea … Continue reading
Posted in 4 Face 4 Dances, DRAFT, Experimental, My Dances
Tagged give and take, ocean wave, pass the ocean, pass the sea, sea wave
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Seasons 4 – 4 Face 4 – Don Veino 20161204
Type: 4 Facing 4 Status: DRAFT, Experimental (Contra dancers doing a Pass the Sea?) Tune suggestion: Thomas Shrug’s March This is one of several of my dances in a series of “Oceans” and “Seasons” compositions which bring Ocean or Sea … Continue reading
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Tagged give and take, ocean wave, pass the ocean, pass the sea, rory o'moore, sea wave
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Oceans 8 – 4 Face 4 – Don Veino 20161204
Type: 4 Facing 4 Status: DRAFT Tune suggestion: Thomas Shrug’s March This is one of several of my dances in a series of “Oceans” and “Seasons” compositions which bring Ocean or Sea Waves into a 4 Facing 4 dance. It … Continue reading
Posted in 4 Face 4 Dances, DRAFT, My Dances
Tagged circulate, give and take, ocean wave, pass the ocean, rory o'moore
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Boston Cream Pie – 4 Face 4 – Don Veino 20161005
Type: 4 Facing 4 Status: Public, Proven Lynn Ackerson’s Coconut Cream Pie is a fave as it’s interesting yet bulletproof with mixed crowds. I’d used it so much, I wrote this dance leveraged from it to have some variation. My … Continue reading
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Tagged apple pie quadrille, coconut cream pie, lynne ackerson, Ron Beeson
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Oceans 4 – 4 Face 4 – Don Veino 20161204
Type: 4 Facing 4 Status: Public, Proven Tune suggestion: Thomas Shrug’s March This is one of several of my dances in a series of “Oceans” and “Seasons” compositions which bring Ocean or Sea Waves into a 4 Facing 4 dance. … Continue reading
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Tagged circulate, give and take, ocean wave, orbit, pass the ocean
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Wavy Star Shuffle – 4 Face 4 – Don Veino 20170120
Type: 4 Facing 4 Status: Public, Proven First called at the Monday Contras dance at the Concord Scout House on 2/13/2017 to positive comments. There were plenty of smiles on dancer faces through the dance… 🙂 That’s great, because I … Continue reading