The cha-cha-cha is the name of a dance of Cuban origin. This rhythm was developed from the danzón by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrín in 1953 The ballroom style of dancing the cha-cha-chá comes from studies made by dance teacher Monsieur Pierre (Pierre Zurcher-Margolle), who partnered Doris Lavelle. Pierre, then from London, visited Cuba in 1952 to find out how and what Cubans were dancing at the time. He noted that this new dance had a split fourth beat, and to dance it one started on the second beat, not the first. He brought this dance idea to England and eventually created what is now known as ballroom cha-cha-cha. Cha-cha-cha is one of the five dances of the "Latin American" program of international ballroom competitions. Cha-cha-cha does undergo gradual evolution, particularly in competition dancing, but in essence is still firmly based on its Cuban origin in the 1950s.

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