Marcus & Karen Hilton Foxtrot Showdance WSS 1998

Marcus & Karen Hilton Foxtrot WSS

If you're not sure who they are, Marcus & Karen are the 9 time professional international standard world champions and were also once 10-dance world champions (pretty insane)
Their dancing is usually described as "simply the best"

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• WSS
• Dancesport
• MBE
• World
• Dance
• Super
• Stars
• Festival
• Japan
• Slow
• Foxtrott
• International
• Marcus
• Karen
• Hilton
• dance
• dapenda
• танцулька

[leoray1234]

this version is by Barbra Streisand

[dapenda]

thx for the info bel1988 and leoray1234

[NewbieGimli]

@DagorMorwen swan sounds better

[DagorMorwen]

She has the grace of a duck

[grifhinx]

usually, in technique, slow-fox mixes tango and waltz with a touch of jazz. but the problem is, there's too much waltz elements in this routine, not to mention that fleckerl. and the desired expression of the dance which goes by the saying "a lovely walk in the park" or "a jazzy stroll" wasn't all too clear. in fact, it was a little too emotional, rather than cool and reserved.

[djm050]

These dancers did very well. But I must say, that Barbra Streisand really killed this song.

[DoctorSyn2]

I know I'm right - I've done it myself! I invite you to do a half-mile run and keep your mouth firmly shut.

[Czerniakowska]

You're probably right, though I couldn't see a ventriloquist getting away with the same excuse. You may be sure that if the judges started knocking off a point or two for open-mouthedness the habit would be curbed overnight.

[DoctorSyn2]

One more practical reaon for the grinning is that it gives then an excuse for keeping their mouths open, so that they can breathe more easily, Few people realise the tremendous physical effort that goes into competitive ballroom dancing, because, unlike other sports people, dancers have to look cool and un-bothered.

[Czerniakowska]

I didn't know this, so thanks for this background information. The Hiltons were the greatest, even if I never quite took to Marcus's constant cheesy grins. Routines such as this one didn't lend themselves to grinning or mouths being agape but many male dancers of that erae seemed to feel compelled to show off their teeth at every opportunity.

[DoctorSyn2]

Agreed - like John Curry in ice figure skating they will probably never be equalled

[DoctorSyn2]

The Slow Foxtrot was actually a British development of the American Foxtrot. In the late 1920s, Victor Silvester, Josephine Bradley, Alex Moore and some other British dance teachers went to America, studied their ballroom dances and produced the British Slow Foxtrot, Waltz, Tango and Quickstep. These dances were adopted by the Americans in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Typically, the Americans don't like to remember all this and have re-labelled them "International Style".