[Callers] Dolphin Heys in contra dances

Hello all, I'm sharing a link to a pod of dances I recently wrote: http://www.madrobincallers.org/2016/06/13/dolphinheys/ rather than putting all 5 and the descriptions up here. I'll put one at the bottom. I was at the English Country Dance in Brattleboro before the Dawn Dance, and Nikki Herbst called a dance with a dolphin hey; and it was such fun I decided to write contra dances with it. For those of you (like recently me) not familiar with a dolphin hey, it's 4 people doing a hey for 3; with the 1s acting as a unit and trading leads (like a school of fish) when the reach either end and loop back in. For instance, at 1:32 in this lovely video of Sapphire Sea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-8LyExynvA ​I don't have video of the contra dances (although I have called a couple of them at contras and they've worked).​ ​Also, if you just search Dolphin Hey on google, you find:​ ​​ ​Which, given how much time I've spent navel gazing about the move, I admit to thinking is hilarious. ​ My favorite ​(so far) of the 5 I've written is below. I'm curious if anyone else has already ported this move from ECD into contra. Enjoy:​ Kinematic Dolphin Vorticity Luke Donforth Type: Contra Formation: Duple-Improper A1 ----------- (8) Long lines, forward and back (8) 2s hand cast the 1s down through the middle to a line of 4 1s turn to face lady 2 A2 ----------- (16) Dolphin hey for 3, 1s (gent starting in lead) pass lady 2 by left 7 changes, until at gents home side with partner second time B1 ----------- (16) Partner gypsy and swing B2 ----------- (6) Circle Left 3/4 (10) Swing neighbor Notes: The dancers will probably get to the partner gypsy a little early. They can get a little more gypsy, or swoop wideley on the hey. Other Notes: The title comes from Carol Ormand’s Kinematic Vorticity, which has the same A1 and B2. ​ -- Luke Donforth calling.luke(a)gmail.com <Luke.Donev(a)gmail.com>