On Thursday, October 27, 2016, my Horton class had a substitue teacher. This teacher gave us a twenty count phrase. Dance phrases with counts that are made up of multiples of 4 are generally easier for dancers to learn because most popularly danced music can be counted evenly by 4.
After our teacher for the day taught the class the combination, I asked him if he wanted each group to start after the previous group had danced the first 16 counts of movement. The teacher responded that we should wait until the entire phrase of 20 counts was finished before the next group started. This, for me, gave the last 4 count counts of the phrase an impression of being a "tag" or ending statement, where the previous 16 count would be the body of the choreography. It wasn't difficult for me to maintain good timing in this case.
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