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I googled: levantala OR cielo rueda. No results. I can imagine the core of the move, but I wonder if there is a better way than i can think of for how to enter and exit. Do you know of any video showing this?

The website currently has no "club" category. If it did, well, these days I think "clubbing" as a word for a range of dance styles would not include nightclub two-step. In some clubs nightclub two-step would make you stand out in a great way, but in other clubs you'd stand out in a bad way -...

@Guarachero - 18 years later, it's time you got a like for your history comment!

Bolero - the American Rhythm dance - is generally danced between 96 and 104 beats per minute (24 and 26 measures per minute)." International Rumba is 100-108 bpm American Rumba is 120-144 or 128-144 (I've seen both ranges). Shannon Butcher's cover of Blondie's "Call Me" is 88 bpm. Bolero...

Interesting...

Good point. This doesn't explain what launched the craze, but adapting recognizable songs to the new rhythm would indeed have bolstered the cha cha craze. ... (I am still wondering what launched the craze.)

Thanks. I recognize some of these as 60s hits. Possibly suitable-enough for my purposes. I had sought out cha chas by the Titos. The ones I've heard weren't familiar to me.

... Besides La Enganadora, there must be others. What others? Jorrin had more hits like "El alardoso", "Nada para ti", and "El túnel", but if any of those got played at an average dance event no one would go "oh yes! this song!". Are Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Quizás, Quizás, Quizás), Tea...

Thanks. I should have said I have read the origin story dozens of times, but somehow all sources neglected to mention what songs actually created the craze internationally. I know La Enganadora by Jorrin was one of the early hits in Cuba, and I know it was influential internationally, but is...

I've seen lists of vintage cha cha songs on StreetSwing, and I've searched Deezer for 1950s cha cha, and 1954 cha cha, and 1955 cha cha (up to 1959). I was expecting some recognizable songs with latin names, but I'm only recognizing "Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps" (which I love) and "Tea for Two"...

I want to paint that on my wall. I've never noticed any swing music that plays the 2nd of the 3-set, but certainly the 3rd of the 3-set is a swung (off-center) "&". The degree that that [beat] is swung can vary, but I'd say it typically sounds exactly like this: I had never felt a waltz...

Yes. Good point. I'm mostly working with people who would be either dancing as a couple down rural streets with no one else around, or dancing in mostly empty dance venues, but indeed there ought to be a solution that won't cause traffic disasters on crowded floors. An extra QQ it is. (A...

If people sing the base line of Stand By Me, they are singing the rhythm Quick Quick Slow-and-a-half Slow-and-a-half, Quick Quick Slow-and-a-half Slow-and-a-half, ... It would help if there was a well-known tune with the rhythm QQSS QQSS That way, without music playing, they could practice and...

I should have said: I'm teaching an intro to texas two step (students know that despite my set of super-cool moves I'm not a total pro), and I want them to walk away with a class summary video of a pattern they can repeat and repeat and repeat, until they're ready to learn something new, and I...

I'd like to try Two-Step to music which sounds like 3x2, 3 sets of 2 beats per bar.