Cha cha cha

1. GOOD AFTERNOON

2. Cha cha cha

3. What is cha-cha?
●The Cha-Cha is a lively and fun dance that
really gets you moving on the dance floor.
Quite similar to Mambo, Cha-Cha took the
slower steps of dance and added a triple
step.

4. Cha Cha Characteristics
●Cha Cha is a vibrant, flamboyant, playful
dance. The light and bubbly feel of the
cha-cha gives it a unique sense of fun. Cha
cha requires small steps and lot of hip
motions, as it dance in 4/4 time.

5. ● The Cha Cha dance is an offshoot of the Mambo dance. The
violist and composer, Enrique Jorrin is credited with developing
the dance by merging Mambo and Rumba in the 1940s. A triple
step was developed to replace the slow tempo in the Mambo,
and Rumba and Cha-Cha-Cha were subsequently born. The
name Cha Cha is said to refer to the sounds that were made by
feet on the chasse while performing the dance.

6. Cha Cha Action
The basic components of the cha-cha are
triple steps and rock steps. Dancers must
master Cuban motion, a common hip
movement in Latin-style dancing.

7. Execution of the
Basic step in Cha Cha

8. ● The Basic is taken in closed facing
position, with a forward or back break
(2,3) alternating with a chasse to the side
(4&1). The forward break is taken with the
left foot, the back break with the right.

9. ● The cha-cha basic in place involves a
triple step, which is a quick sequence of
three steps in one spot. The steps are:
forward, back, and then three quick steps
in place, essentially a "cha-cha-cha".

10. ●The "Three Cha Cha Chas"
forward and backward involve a
sequence of three cha-cha steps in
one direction.

11. The New Yorker is a very popular figure in
basic Cha Cha. In the more advanced levels,
you will still see many variations of this
figure from the Three Cha Chas in side-by-
side position to the Split Cuban Breaks, and
more.

12. A Spot Turn is loosely defined as two forward
steps and a chasse danced solo by man or lady,
circling either to the left or right, to the count of 2,
3, 4&1. Turns to the left are commenced with the
right foot; Turns to the right are commenced with
the left foot.

13. Hand-to-Hand can be thought of as a "New Yorker
in reverse". Partners alternate from left to right side-
by-side position, but instead of taking a forward
break, they take a back break. The turn on count one
is taken in the opposite direction than that of the
New Yorker.

14. “It does not matter how slowly you go
so long as you do not stop.”
-Confucius (551-479 BC), philosopher