Re: [Callers] ???? Looking for Author of Dance -dancers adjust

The dance "Cows Are Watching" can be seen in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz8C4THCx2I You can all watch for yourselves and judge how long dancers are taking for the various parts and how leisurely or rushed the action appears to be. It seems to me that men are usually starting their allemandes sometime between beats 13 and 15 of B1, and more often a shade before beat 14 than a shade after. According to the YouTube timer, the time for 12x64 beats of music (from a beat near the start of the videao to a beat at the same point in the tune near the end) is about 6:20, giving an average tempo a little over 121 b.p.m. The hall is not crowded, so dancers have ample space for the roll-away in beats 5-8 of B1. In some cases, but not all, dancers appear already to have started to veer ("zig") left by beat 8. The general skill level of the dancing is pretty high, with only occasional mind lapses and not a lot of fumbling around or confusion about what to do next. Perhaps the typical timing of the zig zag would be different with a different tempo of music, a more crowded floor, or a different mix of dancer skills, or with a caller who made a big point about asking dancers to take a full four beats to zig left. I haven't found any other videos of "Cows Are Watching", but here's a video of "Weave the Line": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8peDGz-zkc It seems to me that dancers are completing the sequence Veer (zig) left past current neighbors Veer (zag) right to face next neighbors and keep veering right to pass them Veer left to face third neighbors pretty much within the first 8 beats of A2, though they may sometimes be stealing a beat from the figure before (circle left) and/or from the figure after (do-si-do third neighbor). --Jim On Mar 25, 2017, at 11:43 AM, Jerome Grisanti via Callers &lt;callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net&gt; wrote: <snip>