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Summary: Learn the walk around and turn steps for dancing the cha-cha in this free video dance lesson for beginners.
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Leslie Sack Leslie Sack has been teaching, performing and competing in Latin and ballroom dancing for the past 12 years. Before moving to Santa Barbara in 1999, she taugh... read more
Hi, this is Leslie Sack with expertvillage.com. You can check out my website at lesliesack.com. This is Cha-Cha and we’re going to be doing the walk around turn and you can do the walk around turn either way, normally we do walk around to our right. So let me show you that first, you can also do it from either the side basic or the front to back basic but they’re both basic. So the walk around turn looks like this, I’m going to go forward and turn side together, side. If I go the other direction it’s forward, forward, side together, side, so to turn right I’m going to step forward, keep my feet wait here, I’m going to step onto my left leg, turn on left leg and step forward on my right foot and turn on the right foot and side together, side. If I’m going to do it front to back it’s going to look like this. I’m going to be stepping forward, two, half turn, three, okay then you’re going to do Cha-Cha and then place come a little bit back. So one more time, forward, forward, Cha-Cha, one, two, three, Cha-Cha, one, two, three, Cha-Cha, one. If I’m going to two turns and it looks like this, two, three, Cha-Cha, one, two, three, Cha-Cha, one, two, three, Cha-Cha, one, two, three.