I wrote this one (after some discussions with Chris Page about disorientation
at the finish of an earlier version), and it works pretty well.
Diving Ducks Redux 4 face 4
A1 Lines forward and back
Dip and dive around the square*
A2 Continue the dip and dive
Women chain up and down the set
B1 Across the set, women allemande right 1 1/2 times^
Swing neighbor
B2 Men star left 1/2 way
Swing partner
*On the dip and dive, facing up and down, the couple on the right dives, and
the couple on the left arches with the people they are facing. After the first
dip and dive all face across the set and if you dove you arch and vv.
Continue the dip and dive back to place. It is easier to think of it as if you
are just dipping and diving around a circle, not straight up and down and
straight across.
^ The allemande is always done by the women in the same line.
FBL/DIP//CHW/ARW/SWN/STLM/SWP/
> On Jan 7, 2017, at 8:03 PM, Don Veino via Callers
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Below is one of mine from a similar series - the one of those I've called so
> far. I'm going to test the other [B1 variation] shown here next time I get a
> chance.
>
> On your other questions, Lynne Ackerson's Coconut Cream Pie is a fave as it's
> interesting yet bulletproof with mixed crowds (and I use it so much, I wrote
> another dance leveraged from it to have some variation - Boston Cream Pie). I
> also share your fondness for Rick's dance so I swapped bits of Up All Night
> to generate one to pair for an alternating dance - Insomniac's Delight (Gents
> Left Star, Grand L & R, See Saw).
>
> Oceans 4 (DRAFT) - 4 Face 4 - Don Veino 20161204
>
> Note this dance never converts to a square formation. Tune suggestion: Thomas
> Shrug's March.
>
> A1
> Give & Take (Up/Down), Gent take Neighbor Lady back and Swing
>
> A2
> (4,4) Pass the Ocean (Up/Down), Wave Balance Fwd/Back
> [NOTE all Gents are on outside oval facing clockwise, Ladies are inside
> facing CCW]
> (8) Simultaneously:
> Ladies in center (across) Half Hey (Ladies facing center start passing Right)
> *WHILE*
> Gents Circulate 2 Places (wrap around ends) [I TEACH/CALL THIS AS AN ORBIT
> 1/2 to stay with more typical contra language for dancers]
> [Form similar Ocean Waves aligned up/down with Right Hand to same G&T
> Neighbor]
>
> B1
> Wave Balance Right (toward N) & Left, Neighbor Box the Gnat
> [Not yet tested variation: Balance Fwd/Back, N Allemande Rt 1/2x]
> Gents Allemande Left 1+1/2 (to P)
>
> B2
> Partner Balance & Swing, end facing progression
>
> First called at the Monday Contras dance in Concord, MA on Dec. 19, 2016
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