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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 13:43:36 -0500 > From: Jerome Grisanti via Callers <[email protected]> > To: Tom Hinds <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Callers] ???? Looking for Author of Dance -dancers > adjust > Message-ID: > <CAD6SnUQMse394aS9QSQ4XnxWyoGW79J1epej29RAS4c=NZQ9bA@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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 > > > > On Friday, March 24, 2017, Tom Hinds via Callers < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > > Callers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net > > > > >
