Line Dance · Beginner

Cowboy Cha Cha

Takes a little practice, then becomes one of the most fun on the floor.

Cowboy Cha Cha - Learn How to Line Dance

We did not make this video — we found the clearest one and linked it. There is no single official version of most line dances, so we are filming the version taught on West Michigan floors with local instructors. Teach it here?

Level

BeginnerKelly Gellette & Michelle Stremche’s sheet

Danced to

VariousVarious

Structure

20 count4 walls

Choreographed by

Kelly Gellette & Michelle Stremche

Choreographers own their work. We credit them by name and send you to their official step sheet rather than reprinting it. Official step sheet on CopperKnob

Why this one is in the library

The standard country cha-cha; danced to many songs.

The cheat sheet

What you are walking into

A partner cha-cha done in a loose circle, and one of the easiest ways into partner dancing at a country night.

What catches people out

It is danced to whatever the DJ picks, so the tempo changes song to song. Same steps, different speed.

How to get through it

Learn the triple-step first. Everything else in the dance hangs off that one rhythm.

Moves it leans on

Rock Step Shuffle Mambo Step

These are ours, written for someone who has not danced it yet — not a step sheet. For exact counts, see the choreographer's sheet linked above, or come to a night and let someone teach you.

How it goes

20 counts · 4 walls · Beginner social cha-cha

Danced to Neon Moon most often, but it works on any mid-tempo country track. Twenty counts, so it comes round fast.

1–4

Rock and cha-cha

Rock forward on your left, recover onto the right, then triple in place: left, right, left.

5–8

Back, recover, half turn

Rock back on your right, recover, then triple through a half turn left.

9–12

And back the other way

Rock back on your left, recover, triple through a half turn right.

13–16

Quarter turn

Rock back right, recover, triple through a quarter turn left.

17–20

Step and turn

Step forward left and turn a half right. Do it again. You are back where you started.

Written in our own words from the most-voted step sheet, so you can read it before you go. It is not the choreographer’s own notation — for that, see their sheet. Most of these dances have several versions; your room may do a different one.

Go dance this week

We do not claim to know which night plays which song. What we do know is where country dancing happens — here are three of the region's nights, and the calendar has the rest.

Stomp
Verified

Friday & Saturday · Mendon