Cha-cha trip
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Steps: Cha-cha-cha; walk walk 1 chasse
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Circle dance, change of
partners
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Music
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Basic cha-cha-cha dance figures are here brought into a simple Danish
folk dance.
We dance for the pleasure so you are free to select a
relaxed informal hold etc.
Start: big
circle of couples (all the dancers of the ballroom) all holding hands.
After an
introduction with a big circle, the dance consists of 2 parts: couple dance and
chain to a new partner:
intr big circle clockwise, walking steps (or
cha-cha-cha walk)
1a close hold, cha-cha-cha basic steps
1b opening towards centre and towards wall
2 chain to a new partner, walking steps
(or cha-cha-cha walk)
1b can
be cha-cha-cha basic steps like in 1a.
bar no
1-4 Big circle,
all holding hands, clockwise, walking steps (or cha-cha-cha walk: walk walk 1chasse).
5-6 Couple dance, close hold, cha-cha-cha
basic steps in line of dance (lod) Gent (G): facing
forward, start left foot (lf), Lady (L) start back right foot (rf): walk walk side-chasse. Then G: rf back walk …
7 Opening towards centre: G ¼ left
turn cross lf back, L: ¼ right turn cross rf back, G
right arm around L waist slow, then replace weight
to other foot slow, then side-chasse facing each other cha-cha-cha,
G lf rf lf.
8 Opening towards the wall in the
same way.
9-12 Chain (= grand right and left) to a new
partner (no. 5 maybe), walking steps or walk
walk 1chasse.
13-16 Couple dance = 5-8.
1-4 Chain =
9-12.
Alternative
to opening in 7-8:
7-8 Cross over break =
See dance 5 Sailors
lined up and dance 1 Sailor-rhinelander for the
description of the basic cha-cha-cha steps and: walk walk
1chasse and of
The dance is fast: so small steps.
If you feel like it:
then a little cha-cha-cha hip movement (the ship floor is pitching).
We choose one of the cha-cha-cha melodies: Golfstrømeren (= one note for each dance step) or
Calypsøer (a
little more like ”West-indian”, here used for bar no.
and linked to in table on top of this page).
There are many dance instruction videos with
cha-cha-cha, see video list