Champions Choice Ballroom – Marcus & Karen Hilton

Enhance your International Ballroom performance with Marcus & Karen Hilton in Champions Choice Ballroom, a collection of competitive routines designed to provide dancers with sophisticated choreography and fresh ideas for their own dancing.

The program covers the four major Standard dances presented in the source material: Waltz, Tango, Slow Foxtrot, and Quickstep. Each section features carefully constructed groups combining recognizable Ballroom figures with more advanced transitions, lines, pivots, spins, checks, oversways, and rhythmic variations.

Across approximately 60 minutes, Marcus & Karen present material ranging from flowing Waltz sequences and dramatic Tango lines to continuous Foxtrot movement and energetic Quickstep combinations. Rather than focusing only on isolated figures, the program provides complete groups that dancers can study, adapt, and incorporate into their own choreography.

Champions Choice Ballroom is a valuable resource for competitive dancers, teachers, and experienced Ballroom students looking for new routine ideas and performance-oriented Standard material from one of Ballroom dancing’s celebrated partnerships.

Program Contents

Waltz

Group 1:
1–3 Natural Turn – Natural Pivots – Heel Pull – Side Crosses – Reverse Pivot – Closed Telemark – Running Feather – Check Run to Eros Line – Throwaway Oversway – Weave from PP

Group 2:
Open Natural Turn – Quick Outside Spin – Turning Lock to R with Hesitation – Turning Lock to R – Run Op to Tumble Turn – Hinge – Lunge Roll – L Whisk – Standing Spin to R – Natural Pivots to PP

Group 3:
1–3 Reverse Turn – Reverse Pivot – 1–2 Change of Direction – Hesitation – Natural Pivot – Run to Telespin – Checked Reverse Turn – Quick Fallaway – Whisk – Quick Natural Pivots – Right Hinge – Reverse Pivot – Double Back Lock – Double Forward Lock – Open Telemark

Tango

Group 1:
Natural Promenade Turn – Open Finish – LF Rock to Same Foot Lunge Point – Telespin Action – Contra Check – Same Foot Lunge Point – Telespin Action – L Side Backward Walks – Telespin Action – Contra Check – Natural Pivot – Ronde Twist Turn – Oversway to Drag

Group 2:
Fallaway Reverse – Slip Pivot – Reverse Turn to Left Whisk – Twist to Whisk – Promenade Swivel – Quick Swivels – Outside Swivel – Opposition Line – Skater’s Walks – Telespin to Throwaway Oversway – Check – Chasse to R – Lunge Roll – Oversway – Reverse Pivot – Stab Reverse Turn

Group 3:
Natural Promenade Turn – Natural Pivots to PP – Close Flick – Flick Ball Change in PP – Small Ronde to Slow Whisk – In & Out – Chasse in PP – Ronde to Oversway – Ronde to Argentine Line – Natural Pivots – Continuous Aerial Ronde to PP

Slow Foxtrot

Group 1:
Feather – Bounce Fallaway – Tumble Turn – Ronde Wing – Contra Check – Lunge Roll – Side Cross to Hover Feather – Quick Curved Three Step – Wave – Back Feather – Double Curved Feather to Basic Weave

Group 2:
Feather – Open Telemark – Open Natural Turn – Outside Spin – Natural Turn to Same Foot Lunge – Quick Curved Three Step – Heel Turn – Three Step – Double Natural Spin – Curved Feather – Back Feather – Back Left Side Feather – Feather Finish

Group 3:
Feather – Reverse Turn – Back Close, Forward Close – Outside Swivel – Cross Swivel – Running Feather – Oversway – Back Feather Action – Feather – Fallaway Reverse Turn – Inverted Swivel – Tumble Turn

Quickstep

Group 1:
1–3 Natural Turn – Natural Pivots – 2–3 Open Impetus Action – Double Lock from PP – Weave Action to Cross – Hesitation – Pepperpot Rhythm – Outside Swivel Actions – Outside Change to PP – Fishtail Action – Natural Pivots – Quick Chasse to R – Pepperpot Rhythm

Group 2:
Running Right Turn to Left Side Run – Step Hop – Quick Chasse – Scissor Runs – Quick Chasse – Scissor Runs – Curved Feather – Heel Pull – Curved Feather – Outside Change – Promenade Pivot – Closed Telemark Action – Running Cross Chasse