I tend to think of the zig as four beats and the zag as four more. Four total would be zesty or rushed, depending on the crowd and music.<div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px">Jerome</span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span><br>On Friday, March 24, 2017, Tom Hinds via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I believe that zig left, zag right normally takes 4 beats. If the dancers zag a little farther so men can easily take a left hand that would take an additional 2 beats for a total of 6 counts. I'll confirm the timing this Saturday.<br>
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For me there's this issue of how much we ask the dancers to adjust. It seems that asking dancers to adjust is common in English and perhaps less common in contra.<br>
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Tom<br>
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