The Cha Cha is the most popular of all Latin dances. The music is easily identifiable and the melody notes are usually short or skipped. The music beat is 4/4, sometimes 2/4. Although Cha Cha Cha dance music often plays at a rhythm of 34 bars per minute, the ideal beat is 32 bars per minute.

Latin dance, the most original derivative of mambo, became popular throughout the United States in the 1950s and is the most popular Latin social dance.

It is precisely a newcomer in Latin dance. This dance first appeared in American ballrooms in the early 1950s and developed from a dance called Mambo.

The dance steps of Cha Cha Cha originate from jazz. The first step is to flap the hips and the second step is to flap the feet, which is similar to the rumba. Pay attention to the twisting of the waist and hips in the overall dance behavior.

It is precisely the practice of hip rhythm, from diagonally forward to sideways. The basic dance steps always maintain the center of gravity characteristics of the jazz step, that is, the center of gravity is on the straight leg, so that you can dance compact and neat steps. The movement of its feet is very important. When there is no center of gravity after stepping up, the soles of the feet collapse and the insteps push up.

The tune of Cha Cha Dance is cheerful and interesting, and the dance steps and arm movements are closely coordinated, giving people a playful and neat feeling. For beginners, choose some slow dance music for practice.

The music rhythm of the Cha Cha dance is four beats per measure. The first step is the same as the Rumba dance, which also starts from the second beat of the music measure. Beginners should not only pay attention to the movements and steps and ignore the rhythm of the music. Otherwise, if you step on the wrong starting beat, your steps and rhythm will be wrong all the way to the end.

To learn the Cha Cha dance, you must first practice the combined step. The combined step is also called the shrimp C step. It is the most basic dance step of the Cha Cha dance. The combination step consists of five steps, but the steps that best express the rhythm and characteristics of the Cha Cha Cha dance are mainly in steps 3-5. In these three steps, its rhythm is QQS, and it wants to be QQS. The last three steps are also called quick skating steps in some teaching materials. Because among the three steps of the quick skating step, the second step seems to be catching up with the first step, so this dance step is also called the chasing step.