LESSON 3: CHA-CHA-

CHA AND SWING

CHA- CHA

-The cha-cha-cha, casually

called cha-cha, is a move of
Cuban birthplace. It is a
dance moved to the music
of a similar name presented
by Cuban writer and
musician Enrique Jorrin in
the mid 1950’s.
 This musicality was created
from the Danzon-mambo. The
name of the dance is a look a like
in sounds from the creating sound
of the artists’ feet when they
dance, the three sequence of fast
steps that describe the dance.
 This made the group artists
build up a triple step, making the
sound cha-cha-cha with their
shoes, hence the cha-cha-cha
originated. This clarifies why many
consider it the cha-cha-cha and
others cha-cha.
The dance was presented in the
unites States around 1954 and had
clearly chosen such a great popular
among American’s by 1959 that it
was accounted for to be the most
influential dance among nations.
Enrique and his group in Orquestra
America released two of his new
popular dances in the year 1953, the
‘La Enganadora’ and the ‘Silver Star’.
These two hit-tunes turned into a
perfect first cha-cha-cha
organizations to be recorded in Cuba
The music turned out to be very
well known in Havana ballrooms
thus did a dance to become
outstanding, which spread
through Mexico City and the
worldwide spreading up to Latin
America. Western Europe and
the United States by 1955.
The premise of the cutting-edge cha-cha
dance was initially instructed globally by an
English dance educator, Pierre Margolie, in
the 1950’s. The dance is a movement that
endured a vigorous rhythmic sequence to
bona fide Cuban music, Latin Rock or Latin
Pop and is comprised of two more slow
advances pursued by three lively steps,
like cha-cha-cha in a ‘one-two-cha-cha-
cha’ dance mood