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Aaron: Hi guys, Im Aaron.\r
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Christina: And Im Christina. \r
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Aaron: Coming at you today from Dance Times Square here in New York City. Today, were talking about the four elements of the cha-cha basic. Our first element is what we call walking steps. Forward and backward. Forward, forward, forward, just as simple as that, and replacing back where we came from. And walk, walk, walk and back, back, back. Just as easy as walking down the street. \r
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Now with our cha-cha were going to be talking about a little bit of a different kind of quality of action, this being a dance thats come over from Cuba in the late 1940s. Were going to add a little bit of a Cuban action to this and place more emphasis, on putting our weight on the balls of our feet. So were going to dance this forward a little bit more. One, two, three and back again, one, two, three. \r
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Now our second element of the cha-cha basic is going to be a side step. Were going to start in this dance with our left foot and were going to start side, together, side, together, side. And just the same back in the direction we were coming from, to our right. Side, together, side, together, side. Again, with a little bit of that Cuban action, as well. Side, together, side, together. Really digging down and back where we came from, to our right. Again, side, together, side, together, side. \r
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Christina: And the last element were going to talk about is the rock step. You take your left foot and youre just going to place it behind you. Youre going to step back and put your weight back on your right foot. So weight on the left foot, weight on the right foot, and again, were going to add that Cuban hip motion in. Youre going to step back and replace forward, back, replace, back, replace. \r
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The trick to this move is, Ill show you from the side. You want to keep the movement underneath your body, so you dont want to think of stepping back and forward. You want to keep it very small. Its just going to be right underneath your body, back and forward, back and forward. Great.\r
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Aaron: Okay, guys. So just to recap, the four elements of the cha-cha basic were; walking steps, forward, backward, sidesteps and the fourth element, the rock step. Now were going to take those, and put those together, and make up our cha-cha basic. Just like so, side, rock, step, side, together, side, rock, step, side together side, rock, step. Now forward and backward with the walking steps,cha-cha-cha, rock, step, cha-cha-cha, rock, step and side, together, side. \r
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Five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, cha-cha, one, two, three, cha-cha, one, two. Cha-cha, one, two, three, forward, two, three, cha-cha, one, two, three, cha-cha, one, two, three, cha-cha, one, two, three, side together, side.