What is the Cha Cha Dance?
History of the Cha Cha Dance
Basic Steps in the Cha Cha Dance
How to Do Half Turns in the Cha Cha Dance
How to Do Right Turns in the Cha Cha Dance
How to Do Left Turns in the Cha Cha Dance
Traveling in Step in the Cha Cha Dance
The Basic Side Step in the Cha Cha Dance
The Traveling Side Step in the Cha Cha Dance
Tips for Combining Steps in the Cha Cha Dance
Basic Step with Partner in the Cha Cha Dance
How to Do Right Turns with Partner in the Cha Cha Dance
How to Do Crossovers with Partner in the Cha Cha Dance
How to Do Cross Leads in the Cha Cha Dance
How to Do the Hammer Lock Step in Cha Cha
How to Put Steps Together for the Cha Cha Dance
Tips for Dancing the Cha Cha
Summary: Learn all about the history of the sexy Latin dance the Cha Cha from a professional dance coach in this free dance lesson video clip.
Christina Haggerty was born and raised in Seattle. She started her formal dance training in college where she took her first classes in jazz, ballet, and Ethnic Dance including...read more
"You're learning right now, the Cha-cha-cha on two. I want to talk about the background of Cha-cha-cha, the music, the history before we get into the actual dance steps. Cha-cha-cha is actually derived from Cuba, and then it was then brought to the US and in the 1950s, it was Americanized and popularized, and now it's danced all over the United States. The music, you hear some specific rhythms. You hear guiro which is--you'll be able to hear it in the music when we dance in a future clip, and the rhythms, and I may also cover that. I am going to be teaching you the steps, the basic rhythms, and how you would dance with a partner in closed position and in open position."
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