what is cha cha cha dance all mean n where is its origin?

Question

cha cha is a form of dance.

Answer 1

The Latin cha-cha is a very famous ballroom dance. Created in Cuba, it contains African and Cuban rhythms that meld into a Latin beat. It's characteristic counting, one-two-three, chachaCHA! has made it famous.

The name "cha-cha" first appeared in Haiti, where it was the name of a component of a bell. This bell was made from a plat that made a "cha-cha" noise when rubbed. Haitians quickly learned to use the bell element as an instrument to keep time as well. The "cha-cha" was, therefore, probably the first metronome to hit Haiti. The cha-cha was actually created from the mambo, when it toured America. Several audiences complained that the mambo was too fast and jerky for their taste. Orchestras began slowing it down, and the cha-cha was created from this new beat. Therefore, the cha-cha is a mambo, slowed down about three times! Since the mambo was a fusion of jazz and Lain rhythm, the cha-cha retains these qualities. It is a sensual, energetic dance.

The cha-cha itself was invented by Enrique Jorrin, a Cuban violinist, in 1954. Jorrin, a member of the Orquesta America Charanga, slowed down the mambo beat and made several recording that implemented this change. The sound of the cha-cha is said to be the origin of the name. When Cuban ladies danced, their hells smacked the floor in a cha-cha-cha rhythm.

The cha-cha requires very small steps because of its rhythm. The cha-cha part of the rhythm is almost a chasse, or a series of small gliding steps that touch the floor. It is danced to 4/4 time, meaning that there are four beats to a measure. The count is slow-slow-quick-quick-slow, and dancers turn while executing the steps. Spins and dips can be added, as well as an huge variety of fancy footwork. Locksteps, turns and sideways motions are also included, with breaks, or places where dancing stops entirely for a moment. Weight must be shifted carefully to make motions appear seamless. The cha-cha requires a lot of hip motion, which is how dancers make it expressive. The pelvis is held in one position and left free for this motion. Although the cha-cha uses smaller steps, dancers in competition often elongate their movement slightly to travel across the floor. Alternating between long and short steps remains the key to winning a cha-cha competition.

Cha-cha became immensely popular in the United States alongside the mambo in the 1950's. Intense competition developed between orchestra and famous jazz musicians to play a better cha-cha and mambo. Dancers invented new steps and turns to win competitions. new York, Miami and San Francisco were all hubs of this New Dance. Prado Perez and this Orchestra, in their 1951 tour, laid the seeds for the cha-cha to become not just a Latin American dance, but an American one. It is still popular today, and parts of its rhythm can be heard in the music of Ricky Marton, Enrique Iglesias and Gloria Estefan.

Answer 2

The cha-cha-cha (in Spanish chachachá) is a Latin American dance. In ballroom dancing, it is increasingly popular to call the dance cha-cha or chacha.

The music of cha-cha-cha evolved from mambo. In 1951, Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrín introduced the cha-cha-cha rhythm to Cuban dance floors while playing with Orquestra America. Some say that he came to this idea as early as in 1948 while being with Antonio Arcaño's orchestra. According to Jorrín, the sound made by the shoes of the dancers on the floor sounded like "cha-cha-cha", while they tried to follow the new rhythm that, at the beginning, was simply called "mambo-rumba". In 1953, his La Engañadora and Silver Star became recorded hits.

In early days, this dance and its music were both known as "triple mambo" or "mambo with guiro rhythm".

Answer 3

The cha-cha-cha (in Spanish chachachá) is a Latin American dance. In ballroom dancing, it is increasingly popular to call the dance cha-cha or chacha. The cha-cha-cha music is in 4/4 meter.

The dance teacher Pierre Lavelle from the United Kingdom, a founder of the Latin American Faculty of the ISTD, visited Cuba in 1952 to discover mambo (some say, rumba) danced with the triple step in place of the slow one. He brought this dance idea to Europe and eventually created what is known now as ballroom Cha-cha-cha

Answer 4

the word cha cha cha comes from the sound of slippers that was coming out when the teacher danced. That's why it's one, two, cha-cha-cha

Answer 5

it's a spanish dance and from latin america, i just love doing this dance. watch asha bhonsale's lates album song one two cha cha cha, she has used some steps in this song...

Answer 6

cha-cha-cha is orignated from Latin America which is ball room dance

Answer 7

cha cha cha dance is on foot steps.
i think its Goa.

Answer 8

Lack of sleep Extreme stress and fatigue Vision problems Pollution Inflammation of the cornea or eyelids Excessive intake of alcohol and caffeine Magnesium or vitamin deficiency Eye allergies Neurological disorders like basal ganglia

Answer 9

Foot work at its best in this dance...
Wooden floors, where it makes good sound, even without any accompaniment of any instrument, found this song to originate.

Answer 10

chachacha dance i never heared this