Quick Picks: History of the Cha Cha Dance
 
Sign In Sign Up — It's Free!

History of the Cha Cha Dance

Viewing videos requires the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player.
Get the latest Flash player.
Showing 1-5

Part of the video series: How to Dance Cha Cha

left_arrow right_arrow
Add to My Playlist What is a playlist?

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.

Views: 1,515 | Tags: step, steps, dance, slide, partner

Get the latest Flash player.
Email Video Add to Favorites
About the Expert

Christina Haggerty 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 Ethn... read more

Hide Comments

Conversations About This Video

  • Comments
    (0 comments)
  • Questions & Answers
    (0 questions) (0 answers)
Be the first to comment on this video.
Have a question about this video topic? Ask our community members and let them share their knowledge with you!
Ask A Question

Video Transcript

History of the Cha Cha Dance

CHRISTINA HAGGERTY: Hi. Once again, I'm Christina Haggerty on behalf of Expert Village, and this is--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.

Watch these related videos

Hobbies Ads

Community Members who...

  • Favorited this Video
  • Rated This Video
Read these related articles
See more articles

Top Tags

airplane animals balloon balloonanimals balloons balls bicycles bikes camera clowns crafts dance darkroom diy drawing engineeer entertaining entertainment film fly flying games guage ho hobbies juggle juggling kids learn lighting locomotives magic make model models party patterns photo photography pictures pilot scale supplies techniques tie train tricks tyco tying vintage
Check out what people are watching now
left_arrow right_arrow