Stand side by side with your partner with your right shoulder touching your partner's left shoulder. Place your right arm behind your partner's back and hold right hands. Have you partner put her left arm across your chest and hold left hands. Step forward with your left foot, then back with your right. Allow your body weight to move over the foot you are stepping onto, almost like a rocking motion. This is often cued as "rock forward, back" (count "one, two").
Step back with your left foot, step in place with your right and step in place with your left in a quick-time rhythm (count "three-and-four" or "left-right-left"). This is the cha-cha and is often cued as "cha-cha-cha" to keep time with the rhythm.
Step back with your right foot, then forward with your left, remembering to transfer your body weight as you step. This is cued as "rock back, forward" (count "one, two").
Cha-cha, beginning by putting your right foot forward (count "three-and-four" or "right-left-right").
Repeat steps one and two (count "one, two, three-and-four").
Step back with your right foot, then forward with your left. As you step forward, raise right arms, still clasping your partner's hand, in preparation for the turn step (count "one, two").
Cha-cha, stepping forward with your right foot and turning your partner with your right arm. During the cha-cha, your partner turns 180 degrees to face you. At the end of the cha-cha, your arms will be crossed in front of you and you will be facing your partner (count "three-and-four" or "right-left-right").
Step forward with your left foot while your partner steps back with her left foot. Step back with your right foot while your partner steps forward with her right foot, raising your right arms to prepare to turn (count "one, two").
Cha-cha, stepping forward with your right foot and turning your partner with your right arm. During the cha-cha, your partner turns 180 degrees in the opposite direction of the previous turn to return to the beginning position (count "three-and-four").
Step back with your right foot, then forward with your left foot. As you step forward, raise right arms, still clasping your partner's hand, in preparation for the turn step (count "one, two").
Cha-cha, stepping forward with your right foot and turning your partner with your right arm. Your partner turns 180 degrees to face you. At the end of the cha-cha, your arms will be crossed in front of you and you will be facing your partner (count "three-and-four" or "right-left-right").
Step forward with your left foot while your partner steps back with her left foot. Step back with your right foot while your partner steps forward with her right foot, raising your right arms to prepare to turn (count "one, two").
Cha-cha, stepping forward with your right foot and turning your partner with your right arm. Your partner turns 180 degrees in the opposite direction of the previous turn to return to the beginning position (count "three-and-four").
Step back with your right foot, then forward with your left foot, then cha-cha, beginning by stepping forward with your right foot (count "one, two, three-and-four").
Step forward with your left foot. Pivot your body to the right, stepping with your right foot as you do. This is cued as "pivot, turn." Your weight should be on your right foot after the pivot and you should be facing the opposite direction (count "one, two").
Cha-cha, beginning by stepping forward with your left foot (count "three-and-four" or "left-right-left").
Step forward with your right foot. Pivot your body to the left, stepping with your left foot as you do. This is cued as "pivot, turn." Your weight should be on your left foot after the pivot and you should have returned to face the beginning direction (count "one, two").
Cha-cha, beginning by stepping forward with your right foot (count "three-and-four" or "left-right-left").
Repeat steps one through four of the Pivot Step.
Walk forward left, right (count "one, two"), then left-right-left ("three-and-four" or "cha-cha-cha").
Walk forward right, left (count "one, two"), then right-left-right ("three-and-four" or "cha-cha-cha").
Repeat steps one and two of the Walking Step.
Begin again with the Rock Step.