Traveling Cha Cha

Position: Side be Side (aka Sweetheart), side by side facing LOD.
This dance has five parts, four of which are stationary and one pattern (the fourth) moves
anfi-clockwise around the dance floor. The Basic Step Pattern or a variation of the basic
pattern is performed twice in each part.
Music Suggestion: I'm Gonna Get You Girl - M. M. Murphy,
She Wore Red Dresses - Dwight Yoakain.
Any slow to medimn tempo Cha-cha music.

	BASIC STEP PATTERN.
1-2	 Left foot step forward toward LOD - Rock back on right foot (weight shift)
3&4 	triple step, moving slightly backward on Left-Right-Left
5-6 	Right foot step back to LOD -Rock forward on left foot (weight shift)
7&8 	triple step, moving slightly forward on Right-Left-Right

Part 1
	Follow BASIC STEP PATTERN
	Repeat BASIC STEP PATTERN but on last triple step in beats 7 & 8, the Gent turns
	his partner, bringing her in front so that she faces him by lifting right arms up and over
	Lady's head as he turns her 1/2 turn to her left. No letting go of hands.

Part 2 	(GENT KEEPS BASIC PATTERN IN PART 2)
1&2 	follow BASIC STEP PATTERN (Lady will be stepping back on left as she is facing her partner)
3&4 	Gent will bring his partner back to Sweetheart position by turning her 1/2 turn to
	her right on triple Steps. No letting go of hands.
5&6 	follow BASIC STEP PATTERN
7&8 	Gent tums his partner out in front again as in Part 1.
	Repeat Part 2 but without turn on last triple step (beats 7 & 8).

Part 3
1-2 	Left foot
3&4	triple steps
5-6	Right foot step forward (which will be back to LOD) Pivot 1/2 turn to left
7&8	triple steps

Part 4 	(all steps in this part move forward in LOD)
1-2 	Left foot step forward Right foot step forward
3&4 	triple step forward
5 -6 	Right foot step forward Left foot step forward
7&8 	triple step forward
	Repeat Part 4.

Part 5 	(CROSSOVER STEPS. FACE LOD THROUGHOUT THIS PART.)
	Let go of right hand
1&2	Lady moves to the left in front of partner, stepping with left then right foot.
	Meanwhile, Gent steps to right (Cross left behind right foot then step right with right foot)
	in back of partner and raises left arm for lady to back under
3&4 	triple step in place Rej'oin right hands 'm back of Gent, let go of left hands
5&6	Lady steps to right behind partner with right then left foot. Meanwhile,
	Gent steps to left (Cross right foot over, left then step left with left foot) in front of
	triple step in place

	Repeat part 5 and resume Sweetheart position Start over.
November 1999