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

[K Panton via Callers]

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.

I believe that "Cows are Watching" (just looked online) and  Weave the
Line, as examples, are the latter.

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.

Ken


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> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 13:43:36 -0500
> From: Jerome Grisanti via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net>
> To: Tom Hinds <twhinds at earthlink.net>
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> 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.
>
> Jerome
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> On Friday, March 24, 2017, Tom Hinds via Callers <
> callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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> > 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.
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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.
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