Cool & Classy Cha-Cha; Cha-Cha for Beginners (Shawn...

Buy This Item Cool & Classy Cha-Cha; Cha-Cha for Beginners (Shawn... by XiDance.com  Available from Amazon  $34.99  on 8-28-2008     As one of the most traditional and well-known dances, the Cha-Cha will quickly become a favorite of yours once you understand how to move around on the dance floor. Released in October of 2005, the Cool & Classy Cha-Cha is a hot new DVD that's just over 90 minutes in length. Designed for beginners who've never danced Cha-Cha, this DVD puts a strong focus on lead and follow dancing and getting the fundamentals right. With this DVD, you're just a few short lessons away from a completely new look out on the dance floor. Filmed in HD and produced with Picture-In-Picture technology from multiple camera angles, you'll be impressed at how simple this DVD makes Cha-Cha for you. Shawn Trautman has been a coach and mentor to numerous World Champions as well as countless social dancers since the early 1990's. Shawn welcomes people from all walks of life regardless of shape, size, or ability to his classes. His broad experience in both dance and Advanced Learning Techniques makes his methods of instruction innovative, easy, and fun. If you're ready to learn and have fun, Shawn Trautman's Learn To Dance Series is the way to go. Order your copy today, and be ready to dance by next weekend! Reader Reviews Like the other DVD's in Shawn Trautman's collection, this video was just like taking live personal Cha-Cha lessons, except real lessons cost $60 per hour. The level of repetition and pace of the teaching allows you to dance right along with the video without having to constantly stop, rewind and replay. If you didn't get a step right the first time it is OK, because Shawn and Joanna are going to show you again in just a minute. For each new step, you first see the couple together in dance frame. This is important, because many other videos start with the leader walking through the steps alone "air-dancing", and it is impossible to figure out what in the world he is trying to do. Shawn and Joanna show you the steps first together in dance frame so you can see how you and your partner are suppose to look. Then Shawn teaches the leader's part (with lots of helpful hints including do's and don'ts), then Joanna does the same for just the followers. Finally they are back in dance frame showing the steps with music. At the end of the video they put the 7 or so new steps together in combinations and dance at full speed to music which allows you to see how each new step would fit into combinations and ultimate coreography. There are lots of fine points on leading and following. One, in particular that hit home with us, is a subtle change in hand hold on a maneuver called the sliding door. Until I saw this, I could never find my wife's hands when doing this step. Using Shawn's "slip-knot" hold, I now find her hands every time. Shawn and Joanne keep things cool and casual and they are certainly likeable and fun. I have purchased several of Shawn Trautman's DVD's. They are all this good. When you are done with them...you are not done with them...ours keep coming back off the shelf for a refresher and practice time. For us, once the lesson is over, the DVD becomes a refernece tool and practice tool. I highly recommend using this DVD to learn the Cha-Cha as a beginner and to hone your skills as an experienced dancer. Hey Shawn...that sliding door move gets us lots of good comments at the dance club! Thanks for sharing it with us. My only complaint is that I'd love for Shawn to have a "Cool and Classy Cha-Cha Volume 2" DVD that I could buy. I am ready for the next set of lessons.

Cool & Classy Cha-Cha; Cha-Cha for Beginners (Shawn... Available from Amazon Price: $34.99 Updated on 8-28-2008.

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