<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>To my knowledge, it depends on the dance; i.e. how many beats has the choreographer allowed for. Some dances are timed to 2 beats zig, 2 beats zag. Some are timed for 4 beat zig and 4 beat zag.</div><div><br></div><div>I believe that "Cows are Watching" (just looked online) and Weave the Line, as examples, are the latter.</div><div><br></div><div>I can't recall the name of a dance with the similar zig/zag into a gents alle L as "Cows" that, I think, has 2 beats/zig timing.</div><div><br></div><div>Ken</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 13:43:36 -0500<br>
From: Jerome Grisanti via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net">callers@lists.sharedweight.<wbr>net</a>><br>
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I tend to think of the zig as four beats and the zag as four more. Four<br>
total would be zesty or rushed, depending on the crowd and music.<br>
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Jerome<br>
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On Friday, March 24, 2017, Tom Hinds via Callers <<br>
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> I believe that zig left, zag right normally takes 4 beats. If the dancers<br>
> zag a little farther so men can easily take a left hand that would take an<br>
> additional 2 beats for a total of 6 counts. I'll confirm the timing this<br>
> Saturday.<br>
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> For me there's this issue of how much we ask the dancers to adjust. It<br>
> seems that asking dancers to adjust is common in English and perhaps less<br>
> common in contra.<br>
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> Tom<br>
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