Cha-polka
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Steps: Cha-cha-cha; walk walk 1
chasse; rock polka
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Circle dance, change of
partners
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Music
notes in pdf format |
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Cha-cha-cha walk and rock polka are here used in a simple Danish folk
dance.
We dance for the pleasure so you are free to select a
relaxed informal hold etc.
A Danish folk dance model for this dance could be: dance
week 8 (2-tur fra Vejle) on my website of 1999 now placed on: http://www.lavigne.dk/oldfolkdance
where the dances are described with animation figures.
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 promenade close hold: cha-cha-cha walk towards
centre and back
1b rock polka
2 chain to a new partner, walking steps
(or cha-cha-cha walk)
1a can
be rock polka like in 1b.
bar no
1-4 Big circle, all holding hands,
clockwise, walking steps (or cha-cha-cha walk: walk walk 1chasse).
5-6 Promenade close hold: cha-cha-cha
walk towards centre and back.
7-8 Couple dance rock polka.
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.
Cha-cha-cha walk
in circle: count: slow
slow cha cha cha (slow slow quick quick slow), 1chasse, start left foot (lf)
walk, right foot (rf) walk, 1 chasse (either to the side or here:)
forward lf rf lf. Then walk rf …
Promenade walk
towards centre: Lady (L) follows Gent (G) mirror reflected: G and L
both face centre: G: lf walk, rf walk, G and L face each other: side-chasse to G left lf rf lf. Turn
your back to centre and promenade walk out the same way.
Further 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 rock polka.
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