A Chronological Listing of Betty s Choreography Spring, 1994 You Can't Have It All - Phase II Waltz Fall, 1994 Silver Bells - Phase II Waltz May, 1995 Gaelic Morning - Phase II Waltz November, 1995 Kissing Santa Claus - Phase II+1 Two Step November, 1998 Love Letters In the Sand - Phase IV+1+1 Slow Two Step November, 1998 Love Letters Two Step - Phase II Two Step April, 1999 Quicksilver Waltz - Phase II+1+1 Waltz June, 1999 Wedding Song Bolero - Phase III+2 Bolero March, 2000 I Wish You Love - Phase II Foxtrot June, 2000 Sealed With a Kiss - Phase III+2 Bolero June, 2002 In the Still of the Night - Phase III+2 Slow Two Step May, 2004 I Love You More - Phase IV+1 Bolero September, 2004 Harvest Moon - Phase II Two Step May, 2005 Lion Sleeps II Night - Phase II Two Step May, 2005 Baby Elephant Jive - Phase III+1 Jive May, 2006 Can't Help Falling - Phase III+2 Slow Two Step October, 2006 Mary's Boy Child - Phase IV Slow Two Step December, 2007 Home for Christmas Bolero - Phase III+2 Bolero May, 2007 Just For You - Phase II+2 Waltz September, 2007 Just For You IV - Phase IV Waltz June, 2008 Broadway Quickstep - Phase III+1 Quickstep June, 2010 Mary Poppins' Waltz - Un-phased Hesitation-Canter Waltz May, 2011 The Lovers' Waltz - Phase IV+0+2 Waltz May, 2012 When You Are in Love - Phase IV Hesitation-Canter Waltz An Alphabetical Listing of Betty s Choreography with Comments Baby Elephant Jive is a Phase III+l Jive by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written for the Ohio Dance Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio in May of 2005 to the music Baby Elephant Walk as performed by Henry Mancini. The theme for the convention was: Safari to Cincinnati. Broadway Quickstep is a Phase III+l Quickstep by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written for the 57th National Dance Convention in Wichita, Kansas in June of 2008 to the music Give My Regards to Broadway. The source of the music was a public domain MIDI file edited by the choreographer and produced by STAR Records. Page 1 of 5
Can t Help Falling is a Phase III+2 Slow Two Step by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the music Can't Help Falling In Love as sung by Elvis Presley. It was written as an Introduction to Slow Two-Step for the Ohio Dance Convention in Dayton, Ohio in May of 2006. It was also shown and taught at the National Convention in San Antonio in 2006. Gaelic Morning is a Phase II Waltz by Betty Ackerman Hamilton. This dance was written to available music, Morning Has Broken on a REXL Special Pressing record (with permission from Richard Lamberty) and released in May of 1995. The dance is harder than the phasing due to the irregular rhythm. Harvest Moon is a Phase II Two Step by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the music Harvest Moon as performed by the Al Russ Orchestra. Though this dance had been used by Betty for several years at Square Dance clubs, it was not released until the Summer of 2004. Home for Christmas Bolero is a Phase III+2 Bolero by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the music I ll Be Home for Christmas by Suzy Bogguss. This dance was written, formatted, and on the Internet in two days to be available for Christmas dances in December of 2007. A copy of the original hand-written cue sheet is available on the Cue Sheet page of our web-site at: www.royalrounds.com. I Love You More is a Phase IV+1 Bolero by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the music I Love You More and More Everyday as song by Al Martino and was released in May of 2004. It was shown and taught at the National Convention in Denver in 2004. I Wish You Love is a Phase II Foxtrot by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the music I Wish You Love as performed by the Roper Dance Orchestra. The dance was written to accompany an Introduction to Foxtrot clinic given at the Buckeye Dance Convention in Columbus, Ohio. Intended as an Introduction to Foxtrot, only Phase II Waltz and Two-Step figures are used, with Foxtrot timing. The dance was released in May of 2000. In the Still of the Night is a Phase III+2 Slow Two Step by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the music In the Still of the Night by The Five Satins. The dance includes all but one of the Phase III figures and was released in June of 2002. It was also taught at the National Convention in St. Paul, in 2002. Page 2 of 5
Just for You is a Phase II+2 Waltz by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to original music by the same name and performed by Helmut Licht. It was later pressed by STAR Records. The dance was written as a Phase II Waltz at the request of the 56th National Dance Convention round dance committee as an effort to emphasize easier dances for the convention. The dance was Showcased and taught at the convention in Charlotte, North Carolina in June of 2007. Just for You IV is a Phase IV Waltz by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the same music that was used for the Phase II dance Just for You. The dance was demonstrated at the 2007 Accent on Rounds in Fontana Village and released in September of 2007. Kissing Santa Claus is a Phase II+1 Two Step by Betty Ackerman Hamilton. This dance was written to the music I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus as sung by Jimmy Boyd. The dance was released in November of 1995 and is a fun dance for a holiday party. The lady kisses Santa Claus five times and tickles him under the chin on cue according to the lyrics of the song. Lion Sleeps II Night is a Phase II Two Step by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the music The Lion Sleeps Tonight by The Tokens, to promote the Ohio Dance Convention in May of 2005. The theme for the convention was: Safari to Cincinnati. Love Letters in the Sand is a Phase IV+1+1 Slow Two Step by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the music Love Letters in the Sand as sung by Pat Boone. This dance, and an easier companion dance, Love Letters Two Step were released in November of 1998. Love Letters Two Step is a Phase II Two Step by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the music Love Letters in the Sand as song by Pat Boone. This easy dance and Love Letters in the Sand (IV) were released together in November of 1998. Mary Poppins Waltz is an un-phased Hesitation-Canter Waltz by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the music Let s Go Fly a Kite as performed by The Karaoke Singers on the album The Sound of Musicals. The dance was released in 2010 to be Showcased and th taught at the 59 National Dance Convention in Louisville, Kentucky in June of that year. Page 3 of 5
Mary s Boy Child is a Phase IV Slow Two Step by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the music Mary s Boy Child as performed by Harry Belafonte. This Christmas theme dance was released in October of 2006. Quicksilver Waltz is a Phase II+l+l Waltz by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the music Wednesday s Child played by the Dancing Strings on Roper Records. The dance has an un-phased figure, Rotary Box, where the lady transitions to the same foot work as the man, and they both dance a left turning box, which causes them to rotate around each other. The name of the dance arose this way: there already was a dance named Wednesday s Child so we chose not to use that name. Wednesday in French is Mercredi which means day of Mercury (Wikipedia). Another name for mercury is quicksilver (Wikipedia). So we named the dance Quicksilver Waltz. The dance was released in 1999 and Showcased and taught at the National Dance Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana in June of that year. Sealed with a Kiss is a Phase III+2 Bolero by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the music Sealed with a Kiss as sung by Bobby Vinton. This dance was released in June of 2000. It was shown and taught at the National Convention in Baltimore, in 2000. Silver Bells is a Phase II Waltz by Betty Ackerman Hamilton. This dance was written to the music Silver Bells played by Gene Garf on Hi Hat Records. This Christmas theme dance has been used by Betty at Square Dance Clubs since 1994 but has never been released because the record is no longer available. The Lovers Waltz is a Phase IV+0+2 Waltz by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the music The Lovers Waltz (duet) as played by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason. This dance was over a year in the making. We first heard the music played as special music in a church service and we were both taken by the lovely melody. We envisioned a dance telling a story of a couple from their first tentative meeting through a growing closeness to a final commitment. The first part of the dance finds the couple touching and pulling away only to come together again and again. The second part of the dance finds the couple together more but often facing in the same direction and not each other. As the dance progresses, the dancers finds themselves more often in closed position and dancing more difficult figures until in the end they th embrace. The dance was shown and taught at the 60 National Dance Convention in Detroit in May of 2011. Page 4 of 5
Wedding Song Bolero is a Phase III+2 Bolero by Betty Ackerman Hamilton. This dance was written to the music Hawaiian Wedding Song as sung by the Ray Conniff Singers. This dance was written by Betty as a wedding present for Al in 1996, but it was not released until June of 1999. It was shown and taught that year at the National Convention in Indianapolis. When You Are in Love is a Phase IV Hesitation-Canter Waltz by Betty and Al Hamilton. This dance was written to the music Sobre Las Olas as played by the Orlando Pops Orchestra. This dance was released in April of 2012 and was shown and taught at both the Ohio and National Conventions that year. The dance uses common Phase I through Phase IV figures to 6/8 time. You Can't Have It All is a Phase II Waltz by Betty Ackerman Hamilton. This dance was written to the music You Can't Have It All as sung by Alan Jackson. This dance was released in 1994 and is the first dance released by Betty, then using the name Betty Ackerman. She had the honor of showing this dance to Charlie Proctor at Kirkwood Lodge, before it was published. He approved of the choreography and encouraged her to continue writing dances. D:\MyFiles\RoundDance\WordPerfect\ Brief_History_of_Dances.WPD June 11, 2012 Page 5 of 5