The Latin dance, the most primitive derivative of the mambo, took the United States by storm in the 1950s and is the most popular Latin social dance.
The cha-cha-cha is the newest of the Latin dances, which first appeared in American ballrooms in the early 1950s and developed from a dance called the mambo.
The cha-cha-cha-cha's steps are derived from jazz, moving the hips on beat 1 and the feet on beat 2, and have similarities to the rumba. In the overall dance behavior cue to pay attention to the waist and hips twist.
The cha-cha-cha is an exercise in the rhythm of the hips, from diagonal front to side. The basic dance steps always maintain the center of gravity that characterizes the jazz step, i.e., the center of gravity is on the leg that is straight, so that a compact and sharp step can be danced. 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.
The cha-cha-cha has an upbeat and fun tune, with compact steps and arm movements that give a playful and sharp feel. For beginners, it is important to choose some slow dance music to practice.
Chacha music beat for each subsection of four beats, the first step and rumba, as well as from the music of the second beat of the subsection to start, beginners can not only pay attention to the action and footwork and neglected to grasp the rhythm of the music, or step on the wrong beat, will make the footwork and the rhythm of a mistake in the end.
Learning cha cha dance, first of all, we must practice a good parallel step, parallel step is also known as shrimp C step, it is the most basic dance cha cha dance. The parallel step consists of five steps, but the most expressive cha cha cha cha dance rhythm and dance step characteristics of the step mainly in the 3rd -5th step. In these three steps, the beat is QQS, which is also pronounced as cha cha cha cha. The last three steps in some textbooks also called it a quick slide, because in the three steps of the quick slide, the second step seems to catch up with the first step, so this dance is also known as the catch up step.