The cha-cha-cha, the most primitive derivative of the mambo, was the most popular Latin social dance in the 1950's when the Latin dance, the cha-cha-cha, took the United States by storm. Many musicians, even many other songwriters who hadn't considered the Latin dance and many of the musicians at Disque nevertheless adopted the Latin dance, the cha-cha-cha, to popularize the rhythm.
The cha-cha-cha belongs to the Latin dances and is the newest of the Latin dances, which first appeared in dance halls in the United States in the early fifties and developed from a dance called the mambo. Immediately following the mambo, another rhythm flourished and eventually took the world by storm: the cha-cha-cha-cha.
The music is a little slower than the mambo, and the rhythm is simpler and faster. The cha-cha-cha-cha brings people a happy, relaxed, amusing, and somewhat party atmosphere, and was later shortened to cha-cha-cha.
The focus of the cha-cha-cha dance, emphasizing the internal Yang feet, the dance structure of the choreography may not be too much long-distance movement, and in the combination of the dance contains a live audience directly face-to-face dance dance, and each action with the beat is quite important.
Characteristically, the rhythm of the hips is practiced from diagonal front to the side. The basic dance steps always maintain the center of gravity characteristic of jazz steps, that is, the center of gravity in the straight leg, so that you can dance a compact and sharp pace. It has a very important foot movement, with the ball of the foot collapsing up and the instep topping out when there is no center of gravity after the step up.