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Masked Compassion – Singlet/Solo – Don Veino

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Singlet or Solo Progression: None Status: Proven Another from my early first set of purpose-built Singlet/virtual dances, continuing the exploration about how certain moves might fit into the new model for distant dancing. This considered how a … Continue reading →

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A Long Courtship – Becket – Don Veino 20181209

Posted on February 11, 2019 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Becket Left/CW Status: Proven This dance came out of a discussion Will Mentor and I had about writing a dance which built up and defied expectations regarding when you’d get together with your partner. It was briefly … Continue reading →

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Feeling Gravity’s Pull – DI – Don Veino 20180710

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Duple Improper Status: Proven I wanted something smooth and stately which swapped around the idea of who typically does certain sorts of moves (e.g.: in this dance, it’s the Ladies who gate the Gents – not the … Continue reading →

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Mad For Ogontz – DI – Don Veino 20180808

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Duple Improper Status: Proven At CDSS Ogontz Family Camp 2018 Steve Zakon-Anderson wanted to teach Mad Robin to the 11s & 12s group but didn’t have a suitable dance. We couldn’t find one in my deck either, … Continue reading →

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So Long and Thanks for All the Fish – 4 Face 4 – Don Veino 20180528

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Don

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 →

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Hey, Ack is Back! – DI – Don Veino 20180711

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Duple Improper Status: DRAFT Named in celebration of Lynn Ackerson having completed her Veterinary Tech program and, hopefully, her return to the contra dance community. Lynn’s an all around good egg and was very welcoming and helpful … Continue reading →

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The Bubbles Incident – Becket – Don Veino 20180620

Posted on June 24, 2018 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Becket Left/CW Status: DRAFT I was playing with new ways to do a Down-the-Hall dance – in particular, how to achieve the progression. I hit on the idea of a ring of dancers going down and then … Continue reading →

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The Right In Tension (a.k.a. Synchro de Mayo) – Becket – Don Veino 20180430

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Becket Left/CW Status: Proven I’ve written a series of dances playing with the residual tension from the last contact in a roll-away and this one I feel is my simplest solution to date for it feeding a … Continue reading →

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Filet Mignon – DI – Don Veino 20170918

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Duple Improper Status: Proven The instant I heard Simon Riopel’s tune L’Air Mignonne played by Eric Boodman I knew I must write a dance to match. This dance plays with dancer expectations re: Rory O’Moore moves, so … Continue reading →

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Dosi Dude – DI – Don Veino 20171006

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Duple Improper Status: Proven This dance is one of a set that grew out of my work on (Like) Juggling Chainsaws. There is a mirror role and move dance to this one, Swinging Chainsaws, which could be … Continue reading →

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The Devils A Swinger – DI – Don Veino 20171012

Posted on October 15, 2017 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Duple Improper Status: DRAFT The actual title of this dance is “The Devil’s A Swinger” but WordPress currently won’t show the post if any form of apostrophe is used in the post title, so this is the … Continue reading →

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Oh, The Indecency! (v2) – Indecent – Don Veino 20170802

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Duple Indecent Status: Proven Indecent formation = ones proper, twos crossed over Not much to say about this one other than I hope dancers really enjoy the novelty of the formation and somewhat uncommon moves. I’m guessing … Continue reading →

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Lobster Roll – 4 Face 4 – Don Veino 20170823

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Don

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 →

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Strolling & Rolling – Becket – Don Veino 20170725

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Don

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 →

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Counter Clock-Weiss – DI – Don Veino 20170729

Posted on August 19, 2017 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Duple Improper Status: DRAFT, EXPERIMENTAL This dance was written in memoriam to Eph Weiss. Eph was an active dancer in many folk styles in the Boston, MA area up until nearly his 93rd birthday and was known … Continue reading →

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Ephervescence – DI – Don Veino 20170729

Posted on August 19, 2017 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Duple Improper Status: Proven This is a conventional respin of my all-reverse dance Counter Clock-Weiss, written in memoriam to Eph Weiss. Eph was an active dancer in many folk styles in the Boston, MA area up until … Continue reading →

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Wicked Smooth – Becket or DI – Don Veino 20170803

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Duple Improper or Becket Left/CW Status: Proven There’s been a dance “seed” on my whiteboard for some time, which germinated today into what I think is a wonderfully smooth dance (what we New Englanders might describe as … Continue reading →

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Poussettey Spaghetti – DI – Don Veino 20170715

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Duple Improper Status: DRAFT This dance came out of a comment my wife, Sage, once made while we were walking down to the dance hall at Ogontz camp in Lyman, NH. There was an English Country Dance … Continue reading →

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Poussette in Boots – Becket – Don Veino 20170715

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Becket Left/CW Status: Proven This dance came out of playing with Poussettes towards my dance Poussettey Spaghetti, intended to be simpler than that dance. At the time of it’s composition, our daughter Raeden was obsessed with getting … Continue reading →

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Hey, Aren’t You With Me? – Becket – Don Veino 20170416

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Don

Type: Contra Dance, Becket Left/CW Formation Status: DRAFT Another dance playing with Mad Robin transitions (see similar posts). In a way this is a return to one of my earliest dances (Raeden’s Curls), which used a Mad Robin 1+1/4 – … Continue reading →

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The Whole Slice – Becket – Don Veino 20170401

Posted on April 2, 2017 by Don

Type: Contra, Becket CW/Left Status: Proven I was reviewing candidate dances for the 2017 New England Folk Festival, and this dance literally wrote itself. It came to me in a straight stream of consciousness, in a little under a minute. … Continue reading →

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Hey, Mary Cay! – Becket DP – Don Veino 20160723

Posted on February 18, 2017 by Don

Type: Contra, Becket Double Progression Status: DRAFT In the past I’d played with the idea of a butterfly whirl to a Ladies allemande in the center leading into a diagonal hey, but didn’t write a complete dance with that (and … Continue reading →

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Slicing the Waves – Becket – Don Veino 20160918

Posted on February 17, 2017 by Don

Type: Contra, Becket Status: DRAFT One of two takes on a similar theme – for a zestier dance see my Slice AlleMANde. A1 Slice Forward Left, to Gents form Wave in Center Gents Wave Balance Right & Left *WHILE* Ladies … Continue reading →

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Reluctant Robin – Becket – Don Veino 20161103

Posted on February 17, 2017 by Don

Type: Contra, Duple Improper Status: Public, Proven I really like Mad Robins, just in case that isn’t obvious. I was wondering what else could be done with them, whether they could be used as a progression, facing direction changed, etc. … Continue reading →

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