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Definition of cha-cha in English: cha-cha(also cha-cha-cha) nounPlural cha-chas ˈtʃɑːtʃɑːˈtʃɑˌtʃɑ 1A ballroom dance with small steps and swaying hip movements, performed to a Latin American rhythm. his feet begin to move in an unmistakable cha-cha Example sentencesExamples - We practiced the cha-cha, quickstep, jive and samba, all of which are coming along quite well.
- Well, I'm gonna sing all the songs in Spanish, and then I'm gonna do the cha-cha-cha.
- Now he's dressed as a lion, dancing the cha-cha onstage.
- Brown, who has been a member of the Australian Ballet and the Sydney Dance Company, has taken extra dance classes in the cha-cha and mambo to make sure he does justice to Patrick Swayze's hip movements, made famous in the film.
- Looking on from my now four-year-old expertise, I watch with pride the basic steps of swing, cha-cha, rhumba, waltz, tango and other dances, and I feel like a new mother whose baby is learning to walk.
- After all, he was also mastering the cha-cha, and he had been acting in local films since he was six years old, sometimes alongside his father.
- But after just a few months doing the rumba and the cha-cha together, he went a step further and proposed to Austrian-born Babette.
- Dances like the rumba and cha-cha are very sexy, and offer a great opportunity for a couple to learn to move together well.
- In this narrative concept, couples and singles play out relationships through qualities inherent in the dances - the flirty rhythms of cha-cha or the tense architecture of the tango, for instance.
- Mamba, cha-cha, salsa, rumba, timba and bolero are but a few of the exotic flavours the Afro-Cuban All Stars have sampled from the Latin dance menu.
- One gentleman even stayed after class to show me the classical version of a cha-cha-cha because, never having taken traditional ballroom dancing, I didn't know.
- For the mambo, cha-cha, merengue, and the traditional rhythmic dance the son, each dancer moved vigorously yet effortlessly, even as the tempo changed.
- During the past school year, the company performed the Argentine tango and the cha-cha to ‘Dance With Me’ by Debelah Morgan.
- However, ballroom dancing also includes the higher impact tango, fox-trot, cha-cha, and samba.
- Dance instructors are available at parties to teach the waltz and the cha-cha.
- Panico, the dancer from Naples who has been wrapping herself around Maradona's new body through tangos, waltzes, two-steps and cha-cha-chas, arrived in Argentina to learn that she and Diego had had their last dance.
- As a result, my tomboy daughter has become a fan of Latin and shimmies around in sparkly silver sandals doing the cha-cha-cha annoyingly better than me.
- Latin dance - mambo, cha-cha, rumba, samba, tango, and so on - are Afro-Euro forms defined by the coming together of black, brown, and white peoples in the Americas.
- The next hour is spent dancing the tango, the waltz the rumba, the cha-cha and jive.
- Salsa is still relatively new compared to other Latin American dances such as the cha-cha-cha or the samba, and as such is still in the process of evolving.
- 1.1 Music for a cha-cha.
Example sentencesExamples - Sergeant Garcia harmoniously combines salsa, son, cha-cha, ska, rumba and reggae when he brings his spicy and invigorating mix of the best Cuban and Jamaican beats to the Brewery Arts Centre, in Kendal, on Saturday from 8.30 pm.
- Suddenly, smoothly, the Wurlitzer floats up to the stage and the dance gets going with a bouncy cha-cha-cha.
- It wasn't so hard for women to ask each other to dance back in the day when the city's bars played cha-cha-chas and Big Band.
- He was very famous in the '50s and '60s - doing cha-cha-chas and boleros orchestrally.
- They launched into a cha-cha-cha, which I had no idea of how to dance.
- They both led bands in the 1980s Paris punk scene, and both now make genre-defying albums that combine radical street politics with an infectious cocktail of salsa, hip-hop, reggae, cha-cha-cha, ska and much else besides.
- Damon's dark outline is by a large stereo, which he promptly flips on to an upbeat cha-cha tune and turns.
- It is probably more than a coincidence that I first met Thornton before our scheduled interview in an antique store where she was engrossed in an almost visible reverie among the stereoscopic slides, Chinese checkers and cha-cha albums.
- You know, computers are getting so clever that they seem a bit like those pianos where you push a button and it plays the rumba, then a cha-cha and so on.
- I did some Coca-Cola ads for South America and they wanted a tango, samba and cha-cha-cha music, and all of the basic ideas came from CDs I'd worked on for WMN.
- But this weekend perhaps, the return of television favourite Come Dancing will help more people discover - or rediscover - a pastime that involves half a million devotees, stepping-out every week to tangos and cha-cha-chas.
- The first hour or so is usually slower cha-cha music to give dancers a chance to warm up and allow beginners to practice at a comfortable speed.
- ‘There was a gramophone playing the cha-cha-cha,’ he recalls, ‘and two of our teachers were there.’
verbcha-chaed, cha-cha'd, cha-chaing, cha-chasˈtʃɑːtʃɑːˈtʃɑˌtʃɑ [no object]Dance the cha-cha. she cha-chas around in gold lamé pajamas Example sentencesExamples - ‘You mean,’ I said, trying not to laugh, ‘that you don't cha-cha, boogie, or swing?’
- Learn how to rumba, foxtrot, cha-cha and waltz and be the envy of all your friends at the next wedding you go to.
- Sandwiched in between are a group of beautiful young things who mambo, salsa and cha-cha their way through countless costume changes in a bid to inject some fiesta spirit into the proceedings.
- I am proud to relate that in the 15 minutes of tuition, before they started pulling out stop-order forms, I learnt to cha-cha.
- The owner-couple say their patrons or rather ‘all those who enjoy dancing’ are welcome to jive, waltz, cha-cha, or simply groove to evergreen numbers.
Origin 1950s: Latin American Spanish. Definition of cha-cha in US English: cha-cha(also cha-cha-cha) nounˈtʃɑˌtʃɑˈCHäˌCHä 1A ballroom dance with small steps and swaying hip movements, performed to a Latin American rhythm. his feet begin to move in an unmistakable cha-cha Example sentencesExamples - Well, I'm gonna sing all the songs in Spanish, and then I'm gonna do the cha-cha-cha.
- One gentleman even stayed after class to show me the classical version of a cha-cha-cha because, never having taken traditional ballroom dancing, I didn't know.
- Panico, the dancer from Naples who has been wrapping herself around Maradona's new body through tangos, waltzes, two-steps and cha-cha-chas, arrived in Argentina to learn that she and Diego had had their last dance.
- Salsa is still relatively new compared to other Latin American dances such as the cha-cha-cha or the samba, and as such is still in the process of evolving.
- After all, he was also mastering the cha-cha, and he had been acting in local films since he was six years old, sometimes alongside his father.
- Mamba, cha-cha, salsa, rumba, timba and bolero are but a few of the exotic flavours the Afro-Cuban All Stars have sampled from the Latin dance menu.
- The next hour is spent dancing the tango, the waltz the rumba, the cha-cha and jive.
- As a result, my tomboy daughter has become a fan of Latin and shimmies around in sparkly silver sandals doing the cha-cha-cha annoyingly better than me.
- However, ballroom dancing also includes the higher impact tango, fox-trot, cha-cha, and samba.
- Dance instructors are available at parties to teach the waltz and the cha-cha.
- We practiced the cha-cha, quickstep, jive and samba, all of which are coming along quite well.
- For the mambo, cha-cha, merengue, and the traditional rhythmic dance the son, each dancer moved vigorously yet effortlessly, even as the tempo changed.
- Now he's dressed as a lion, dancing the cha-cha onstage.
- Looking on from my now four-year-old expertise, I watch with pride the basic steps of swing, cha-cha, rhumba, waltz, tango and other dances, and I feel like a new mother whose baby is learning to walk.
- Brown, who has been a member of the Australian Ballet and the Sydney Dance Company, has taken extra dance classes in the cha-cha and mambo to make sure he does justice to Patrick Swayze's hip movements, made famous in the film.
- Latin dance - mambo, cha-cha, rumba, samba, tango, and so on - are Afro-Euro forms defined by the coming together of black, brown, and white peoples in the Americas.
- Dances like the rumba and cha-cha are very sexy, and offer a great opportunity for a couple to learn to move together well.
- In this narrative concept, couples and singles play out relationships through qualities inherent in the dances - the flirty rhythms of cha-cha or the tense architecture of the tango, for instance.
- But after just a few months doing the rumba and the cha-cha together, he went a step further and proposed to Austrian-born Babette.
- During the past school year, the company performed the Argentine tango and the cha-cha to ‘Dance With Me’ by Debelah Morgan.
- 1.1 Music for or in the rhythm of a cha-cha.
Example sentencesExamples - They launched into a cha-cha-cha, which I had no idea of how to dance.
- I did some Coca-Cola ads for South America and they wanted a tango, samba and cha-cha-cha music, and all of the basic ideas came from CDs I'd worked on for WMN.
- Sergeant Garcia harmoniously combines salsa, son, cha-cha, ska, rumba and reggae when he brings his spicy and invigorating mix of the best Cuban and Jamaican beats to the Brewery Arts Centre, in Kendal, on Saturday from 8.30 pm.
- The first hour or so is usually slower cha-cha music to give dancers a chance to warm up and allow beginners to practice at a comfortable speed.
- ‘There was a gramophone playing the cha-cha-cha,’ he recalls, ‘and two of our teachers were there.’
- But this weekend perhaps, the return of television favourite Come Dancing will help more people discover - or rediscover - a pastime that involves half a million devotees, stepping-out every week to tangos and cha-cha-chas.
- It is probably more than a coincidence that I first met Thornton before our scheduled interview in an antique store where she was engrossed in an almost visible reverie among the stereoscopic slides, Chinese checkers and cha-cha albums.
- He was very famous in the '50s and '60s - doing cha-cha-chas and boleros orchestrally.
- Damon's dark outline is by a large stereo, which he promptly flips on to an upbeat cha-cha tune and turns.
- They both led bands in the 1980s Paris punk scene, and both now make genre-defying albums that combine radical street politics with an infectious cocktail of salsa, hip-hop, reggae, cha-cha-cha, ska and much else besides.
- It wasn't so hard for women to ask each other to dance back in the day when the city's bars played cha-cha-chas and Big Band.
- Suddenly, smoothly, the Wurlitzer floats up to the stage and the dance gets going with a bouncy cha-cha-cha.
- You know, computers are getting so clever that they seem a bit like those pianos where you push a button and it plays the rumba, then a cha-cha and so on.
verbˈtʃɑˌtʃɑˈCHäˌCHä [no object]Dance the cha-cha. she cha-chas around in gold lamé pajamas Example sentencesExamples - I am proud to relate that in the 15 minutes of tuition, before they started pulling out stop-order forms, I learnt to cha-cha.
- The owner-couple say their patrons or rather ‘all those who enjoy dancing’ are welcome to jive, waltz, cha-cha, or simply groove to evergreen numbers.
- Sandwiched in between are a group of beautiful young things who mambo, salsa and cha-cha their way through countless costume changes in a bid to inject some fiesta spirit into the proceedings.
- ‘You mean,’ I said, trying not to laugh, ‘that you don't cha-cha, boogie, or swing?’
- Learn how to rumba, foxtrot, cha-cha and waltz and be the envy of all your friends at the next wedding you go to.
Origin 1950s: Latin American Spanish. |