Hi,

I've been holding off sharing dances I've not yet called but I've written a boatload of 4F4s. So here's a few of differing difficulty and status:

PokéCon (Gotta Swing ‘em All) DRAFT - 4F4 - Don Veino 20181206

A1 G&T to Opp GNT/LRK, Opp Swing (face center)

A2 GNT/LRK LHStar 1/2x, TB Swing (look Up/DN to Neighbor)

B1 G&T to Neighbor GNT/LRK [ALT: LDY/RBN Allemande Right 1+1/2x or Cir. LT 3/4x], Neighbor Swing

B2 LDY/RBN RHStar 1/2x, Partner Swing, face progression

This should be a not very hard yet swing happy dance! Walked through with friends but not yet called IIRC (hence "DRAFT" status).

Hey, Let's Take a Cruise - 4F4 - Don Veino 20250324

A1 G&T to OPP GNT/LRK, Opposite SWING

A2 PASS THE OCEAN up/down, WAVE/4 BAL; GNT/LRK ORBIT the Oval 2PL *WHILE* LDY/RBN facing in PASS RT for a same role 1/2 HEY across

B1 RH to same OPP in WAVE/4 BAL, SWING THRU (Opp RT 1/2x, GNT/LRK LT 1/2x); LDY/RBN ORBIT the Oval 2PL 
*WHILE* GNT/LRK facing in PASS RT for a same role 1/2 HEY across (and as you approach your PNR...)
B2 PASS PNR RT to WEAVE the RING of 8 1/2x; PNR SWING, face next

I penned several 4F4s in 2016 with a single role doing a hey for 4 in the center while others orbit the major set (oval/racetrack circulate) theme, but recently hit on how to give everyone the chance to hey and orbit in a single/ non-alternating 32 bar sequence as here. Called it for the first time at the April 2025 Concord Scout House challenging benefit dance. Works fine but blew some minds! It was great to hear folks laughing and cheering once they got it. Where some seemed to go wrong was when they were in the center hey group but the person facing out at the start of the move (if they looped right instead of left...?). There's no forgiveness for recovery anywhere - I prepped folks to bail to their diagonally opposite end spot to try again next round. Sadly, no video of this one.

There's a variation of this where everyone simply circulates on the outside or inside tracks (vs. the inside heys). I prefer the hey approach as it handles the timing difference between the inside and outside circulate track distances, but concede it's "harder".

One more, well proven, in the lineage of all the "Pie" dances: "All the Pies" https://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/dance.php?id=18611

-Don

On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM Maia McCormick via Contra Callers <contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

What it says on the tin—I want more four-face-fours in my collection (not least because I’m calling a session of them at NEFFA 😅), drop your favorites here! Accepting recommendations of any difficulty level. 

Thanks all!

- Maia (Brooklyn, NY)

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