Anna Kovalova | Cha Cha tutorial | How to dance

in cha cha cha we gonna use a little bit more rotary action the rotary of course we are

on the slow as a roomba we always go go with the pendulum and figure eight okay so that's

why we started with the roomba because that's a one of the princip which we also have in

cha cha cha but we're gonna have it only in the slow counts so what we should do during

the quick quick timing

well of course if we wanna challenge ourselves and we wanna work really hard we can try to

do every single time the figure eight but it's also not quite correctly with the rhythm

so in cha cha cha on the quick quick timing we have to use more rotary more compact action

rather than number eight and figure eight action so when we have a chassis quick quick

timing quick quick and now when i have a slow then that's when you're starting to activate

your figure eight yes so when we have a quick quick yeah just try to um keep your feet together

and rotate your hip back around your spine yeah we don't have any uh body transfer or

shift of the spine we're just rotating and we're changing our knees very very good also

try to avoid this type of action yes we just gonna rotate around our spine as well as our

standing leg when we have a rotation our hip flexor is always should be long and extended

so we don't have any corner here we're not creating the corner yes no gap so it's very

very straight and extended yes so just rotate one two one two one two yes it's just pure

rotation around your spine very very good so when we have a chassis and we step into

the side that's what's gonna happen we're activating our standing leg and we rotate

cha cha on the quick quick we have a rotation now after the second cha we're done with the

quick one a quick uh timing we now gonna dance our figure eight starting with our left hip

one end and now on the slow figure eight two three and again get prepare yourself four

for rotary action cha cha and we're gonna start our figure eight with our right hip

one and ah two three rotary cha cha-cha one and two three again rotary cha cha one two

three continued cha cha one and

one and two three very nice cha cha one very very good very good now also um as our account

one we already understand that it's slow timing yes we have to really try to show the contrast

with the quick one and the quick one well i always trying to find some image in my head

to memorize some things yes for me it's quick quick timing it's like let's say america one

it's russia it's so far away yes and when we dance cha cha it's a one family so it's

one family timing and we have to dance it not cha cha and then one but we're dancing

cha-cha we're moving to russia one yeah so we have cha-cha one cha-cha one and that's

your rotary action so if you as you can hear cha-cha i don't really have a time for figure

eight yeah it's very fast and then one i have more time so let's try to apply this timing

to your steps and to your actions yes your heaps so when we have cha-cha we're not going

to dance i'll show you well it's it's fine if you do that but you always want to challenge

yourself yeah we're not gonna dance cha cha one i don't have any contrast we're gonna

dance cha one and two three cha one and two three so it's we have to finish it as a quick

quick yes let's try and we're gonna start with our rotation cha cha and we'll end with

our rotation on our right foot that's right one more time starting with the right foot

and

and now gonna start one figure eight two three get ready

one two three yes it's also very important to understand that when we have something

fast time yes for example um we don't have much time to really travel and make the step

as a progress step progressive step i'm sorry so our cha-cha steps are not cha cha one we're

not really traveling during the cha cha step yeah so um what i would like to see that you're

taking a step with your shoulder length so as you can see my shoulder and my step same

line i'm not trying to make my step bigger especially with my quick quick timing yeah

and cha under your body cha now from here when you're activating your figure eight on

your uh right foot for example i'm sorry left foot and one you can take a slightly bigger

step in the way and then again in place two three and cha under yes cha rotation and one

you will have more time to show count one yes so try to not really uh travel during

the chassis in cha cha cha yes so it's clear that we have in rumba we always creating our

pendulum number eight figure action right in chat we have a little bit different slightly

different heap action because we have quick quick timing so we have a more rotary action

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