From Beginners to Champions – Quickstep is an instructional program by former Amateur Ballroom World Champions William Pino & Alessandra Bucciarelli, demonstrating how simple syllabus routines can be developed into more advanced competitive choreography.

Instead of teaching isolated figures, this video follows four complete Quickstep routines, showing how timing, movement, shaping, and musical interpretation transform basic sequences into polished championship-style performances. Each routine is demonstrated from multiple angles, making it easier to compare the basic and advanced versions.

What You’ll Learn

Rather than simply adding more figures, William Pino explains how advanced dancing is created through better technique and presentation, including:

• Leg and foot action
• Top line shaping
• Timing and rhythm
• Dancing with the music
• Characteristic movement of Quickstep
• Using acceleration and deceleration effectively
• Creating dynamic movement through changes of speed

Progressive Routine Development

The course is organized into four choreography groups, with each group presented as both a Basic Routine and an Advanced Routine.

Basic routines include syllabus figures such as:

• Natural Spin Turn
• Progressive Chasse
• Quick Open Reverse
• Running Right Turn
• Back Lock
• Double Reverse Spin
• Cross Swivel
• Fishtail
• V6
• Slip Pivot
• Cross Chasse

The advanced routines demonstrate how these familiar figures can be expanded using more dynamic actions and competitive variations, including:

• Pepper Pot
• Step Hop
• Travelling Contra Check
• Hover Cross
• Change of Direction
• Pivot variations
• Advanced Quick Open Reverse developments
• Speed and timing variations

Ideal For

• Intermediate Standard dancers
• Competitive Quickstep dancers
• Ballroom teachers and coaches
• Choreographers
• Students developing competition routines

By comparing each basic routine with its advanced version, this program helps dancers understand not only which figures are danced, but how movement quality, timing, shaping, and musical interpretation create a stronger competitive performance.