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Originally Posted by Tessalicious  My gut response to that is 'Ick' which is not entirely fair, but I can't bear to try and align WCS and Cha-cha musically, they are just so completely different. |
Um, I did point out that all I was saying was doing a WCS triple with the same timing as Cha Cha was not automatically
wrong, not that you should be doing it all the time (i.e. trying to align WCS and Cha Cha musically).
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If we're talking in terms of WCS, the first level of accepted syncopation (ie anything other than 1 2 3&4 5&6) is 1 2&3&4 5 6 (as taught at Southport in June by Deborah), and the '&'s are accented physically because they're different.
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The timing variation I gave was apparently suggested by Mario Robau as appropriate when dancing to "funky" WCS music, and he's about as authoritative a source as it gets(*). Yes, I find it weird, and no, I'm not saying it has the same feel as Cha-Cha. However it shows that you
could end up doing a triple on 4&1 in WCS. (Though I don't think it "feels" like a normal triple, because the "pulse" on 4 changes the feel).
(*) Of course, the fact that it was someone quoting him, in a link I can no longer find, is about as unauthoritative as it gets...