<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I wrote this one (after some discussions with Chris Page about disorientation at the finish of an earlier version), and it works pretty well.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Diving Ducks Redux 4 face 4</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Lines forward and back</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dip and dive around the square*</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Continue the dip and dive</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Women chain up and down the set</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">B1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Across the set, women allemande right 1 1/2 times^</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Swing neighbor</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">B2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Men star left 1/2 way</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Swing partner</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*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. </div><div class="">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. </div><div class="">^ The allemande is always done by the women in the same line.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(24, 24, 23);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(24, 24, 23);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(24, 24, 23);" class="">FBL/DIP//CHW/ARW/SWN/STLM/SWP/</div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 7, 2017, at 8:03 PM, Don Veino via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" class="">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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).</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="font-size:16px" class=""><b class=""><span class="gmail-il">Oceans</span> <span class="gmail-il">4</span> (DRAFT) - <span class="gmail-il">4</span> Face <span class="gmail-il">4</span> - Don Veino 20161204</b><br class=""><br class="">Note this dance never converts to a square formation. Tune suggestion: Thomas Shrug's March.<br class=""><br class="">A1<br class="">Give & Take (Up/Down), Gent take Neighbor Lady back and Swing<br class=""><br class="">A2<br class="">(<span class="gmail-il">4</span>,<span class="gmail-il">4</span>) Pass the <span class="gmail-il">Ocean</span> (Up/Down), Wave Balance Fwd/Back<br class="">[NOTE all Gents are on outside oval facing clockwise, Ladies are inside facing CCW]<br class="">(8) Simultaneously:<br class="">Ladies in center (across) Half Hey (Ladies facing center start passing Right)<br class="">*WHILE*<br class="">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]<br class="">[Form similar <span class="gmail-il">Ocean</span> Waves aligned up/down with Right Hand to same G&T Neighbor]<br class=""><br class="">B1<br class="">Wave Balance Right (toward N) & Left, Neighbor Box the Gnat</div><div style="font-size:16px" class="">[Not yet tested variation: Balance Fwd/Back, N Allemande Rt 1/2x]<br class="">Gents Allemande Left 1+1/2 (to P)<br class=""><br class="">B2<br class="">Partner Balance & Swing, end facing progression<br class=""><br class=""></div><span style="font-size:16px" class="">First called at the Monday Contras dance in Concord, MA on Dec. 19, 2016</span></div></div></div>
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