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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
When we was like they size, I'm talking about way back. One of them is the cha-cha.
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Show them the cha-cha, Elsa. [[short silence]]
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One of them is the cha-cha. That's what we first learned. When I was 5 years old, my cousin taught me this, Russel. He dead now.
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That's called the cha-cha, that's 5 steps.
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
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Now we gon like to show ya'll the short cha-cha. It's like that, but it's still the same. 5 steps, but it's shorter.
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3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
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And another thing that's called, um,
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the sky--
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Before you get onto the others, why don't you explain where you first saw people doing the cha-cha
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and why you started to do that?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Alright, we first saw the cha-cha-, uh, it was a group of guys that used to get socials at our house down our basement.
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And they used to do the cha-cha, and we was young kids, we seen them doing the cha-cha.
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And we just practiced every day. We had it just like them, and we created,
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the steps that we created ourself with the cha-cha,
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and, you know, made our own routines.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
So in a sense, then, the cha-cha was a base
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upon which you built to develop your later steps.

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
So, what we're saying, then, is that the dancers are starting off
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with a rather elementary social dance step,
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a step which they learned from watching older people do on social affairs, social occasions.
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They took this step, the cha-cha, and they relayed a short cha-cha,
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building upon that as the base to develop the more complex dance routines which you see them doing now
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and which became part of what is known as GQ dancing.
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Now, before we talk any more about the particular steps, maybe we should try and figure out what GQ is.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
GQ means Gillford's Quality.
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