Serendipity:
"Do you mean a quick is 1.1/2 a beats."
Indeed, a quick in foxtrot which will be followed by a slow is actually executed as an interval of at least 1 and 1/2 beats between its placement and the placement of the previous step. That's simply how the dance is done by everyone who understands it.
"If i can find it , I have Andrew giving his retirement dance. I can recall he danced to some incredibly slow Tempo 24 bars a minute in the Foxtrot."
And no doubt still made his final quicks at least a beat and a half. At normal tempo, he habitually made them a beat and three quarters!
Doug:
"Anymouse,if Howsons second quick is one&half beats that would make his timeng SQS,as for Silkensons Timing"
Howsons timing like everyone else's is related to Sinkinson's, however most dancers like Howson can only stretch out that final quick a little over a beat and a half. Sinkinson routinely made it a beat and three quarters.
But none of them are dancing SQS. A description in slows and quicks is unable to accurately describe the literal reality of how it is actually done. Instead, we use the traditional notation - SQQ - to describe the overall amount of time in the figure, and trust that all experienced dancers will execute the usual drifted timing and action for such a figure; it is only beginners who fall into the trap of trying to literally execute SQQ as 2:1:1.
"Where I think you may be going wrong with the frames is that you are measuring the size of the steps and not the timeing."
No, I am in fact measuring a time interval and not a distance.
