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Re: Newbie question about Cha Cha and Rumba

Posted by Dave

12/30/2005 4:40:00 AM

Latinrules. I'm with you all the way. I hate the way that latin competion has gone. If you tune off the sound on TV it's hard to know with the young people ,whether they are dancing a Samba or a CHA CHA.

Re: Newbie question about Cha Cha and Rumba

Posted by Anonymous

11/4/2005 6:33:00 AM

Alec,

your teacher is right.
The 2 is the accented beat in cha-cha and rumba (and also jive). At least for international rhythm - I don't know anything about american style, but for international style it's absolutely right.

Many tend to think it's beat one, since you start at one in a couple of other dances.

Regards,
Marian

Re: Newbie question about Cha Cha and Rumba

Posted by Anonymous

12/29/2005 12:09:00 PM

"The 2 is the accented beat in cha-cha and rumba (and also jive). At least for international rhythm - I don't know anything about american style, but for international style it's absolutely right.

Many tend to think it's beat one, since you start at one in a couple of other dances."

Actually 1 is the accented beat (you hear it as 4-and-ONE in cha), but you honor this by starting a pattern on 2 that resolves towards the next one.

Re: Newbie question about Cha Cha and Rumba

Posted by jerryblu

11/6/2005 5:17:00 AM

I think Julia Gorchakoba does a pretty fair ChaCha, even tho she was born in Russia. :)

Jerry

Re: Newbie question about Cha Cha and Rumba

Posted by Melissa

12/29/2005 11:42:00 AM

I learned how to do the Cha Cha by stepping on the 1(side step) then rock step forward and then cha-cha-cha. That's also how we started international cha cha too, so I'm not sure which is correct. I've seen it start so many ways. It just depends on who you're dancing with.

Melissa

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