Can you Cha-cha-cha?
Today was the last day of school before Spring Break. To celebrate, the “good” kids were allowed to attend a dance during the last block of school. Now, if you know anything about middle schoolers, you will know that they don’t dance. Basically they stand around and talk about dancing, but none of them are brave enough to bust a move in front of their peers. But, oh, will they line dance. Electric slide, Macarena, whatever. If it has fixed moves, then they’re in. So they put on this type of line dance that I’ve never heard before. I was told that it doesn’t come on the radio, but is played at parties and at the skating rink, etc. Something about stomp your right foot, stomp your left foot, hop three times, etc. Then it would say to “cha-cha-cha”. I was amazed that I was watching a gym full of kids and not ONE of them knew how to cha-cha-cha. They would kind of rock on their feet or shimmy their shoulders for that move. Really? Am I that old? Or worse – am I that much of a geek?
First thing after spring break, I am teaching all of my band kids this little quick-step with their feet.
2 comments:
I know what song you're talking about. They played it at the wedding reception Friday night. Sadly, I don't know how to cha-cha-cha either, so I can't say if they did it right. Don't be too hard on me. I'm from the country, remember? They didn't learn us no formal dancin.
Let me clarify - I am NOT a dance guru. I am proud that I can march in step, much less do anything ballroom-like. So all I know about the cha-cha is that it is a slow-slow-quick-quick-slow with your feet. (1,2,3&4 for the music geeks) In order to be done with that line dance song, the kids basically would only do the quick or cha-cha part. Which was not happening.
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