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Summary: Learn the open break step for men 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
This is Leslie Sack with expertvillage.com, my website is lesliesack.com. This is Cha-Cha, this is the men’s part for doing an open break and the ladies underarm turn. So you’re going to be leading her, the ladies into an underarm turn. Here we go, you’re usually going to do a cross body lead at the beginning of this but I’m just going to show you the open break and her turn part. So here are your basic, two, three, Cha-Cha, one, two, three, Cha-Cha, one, two, three, Cha-Cha, one. Bring this arm down and you go rock back on your left leg instead of forward. Rock, step, Cha-Cha, side that’s a turning signal for the girl and then you’re going to rock back 5th position break, two, three, Cha-Cha, one, two, three. One more time, two, three, Cha-Cha, side, open break, Cha-Cha, side, lean, turns right, Cha-Cha, one, two, three, Cha-Cha, one, two, three, Cha-Cha, one, two, three, Cha-Cha, one, two, three, Cha-Cha, one, two, three. So that’s an open break and underarm turn, men’s part.