Elizabeth Honan
Girls Aloud - Cheryl Cole - Creative Director/Show Producer Capital FM Summertime Ball & Jingle Bell Ball - Marks & Spencers Autumn Campaign 2010 - JLS (Creative Director) - Disney My Camp Rock 2
Elizabeth Honan was a professional dancer for 12 years. Her career took her all over the world performing in theatre, television and world tours. She danced for many artists including Lionel Richie, Robbie Williams, Westlife, and Enrique Iglesias to name a few. This gave Elizabeth enormous experience in many styles of dance which she has taken with her as a choreographer.
Elizabeth has spent the last 6 years working predominantly in the music business and covers all genres of music. Pop, Urban, Dance; she has done them all. Her experience in television is vast, creating original and memorable performances for the artist and more importantly the audience. Be it personal training in stage performance for a solo artist, or choreographing arena tours, she shows nothing but passion every job she takes.
Elizabeth has worked extensively with Girls Aloud, choreographing many of their dance routines for music videos including ‘The Promise’ and ‘Something Kinda Ooh’. She was also responsible for choreographing their five sell-out tours, including the ‘Out of Control Arena Tour 2009’. Recently, Elizabeth choreographed Cheryl Cole’s iconic music music video ‘Fight For This Love’ and Diana Vickers debut, ‘Once’
Some of Elizabeth’s more memorable performances are, Cheryl Cole’s performances on The X Factor, Children In Need and Girls Aloud’s BRIT Awards 2009 performance. More recently, she choreographed Cheryl Cole’s BRIT Awards 2010 performance and the 30 minute set that Cheryl Cole performed whilst supporting the Black Eyed Peas during their European Tour 2010.
Elizabeth has also produced large-scale concerts for Capital FM. In 2009, she completed the ‘Capital FM Jingle Bell Ball 2009’, which saw 27 artists perform over two sell-out nights at the o2 Arena, and more recently the ‘Capital Summertime Ball’ in June 2010.
Elizabeth is currently Creative Director and Show Producer for JLS’s ‘Outta This World Arena Tour 2010’.
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Douglas Mills
Strictly Gershwin - Tap Dogs - Viva La Diva - Princes Trust - Arcelik TV Commercial - Toyota
Douglas trained at the Performers College in Essex, whilst there he began his professional career performing in summer seasons, pantomimes and many live television appearances including a solo spot on ‘The Big Big Talent Show’ in which he devised his own choreography, and an appearance on the 1995 Royal Command Performance.
When Douglas completed his college training he immediately joined the original cast of Dein Perry’s ‘Tap Dogs’ in London’s West End, becoming the first ever British member of the troupe. For the next three years Douglas toured with ‘Tap Dogs’ all over the world including North America, Europe, Asia, Japan and the United Kingdom, and eventually performing in Australia, where the show originated. During those three years Douglas was Dance Captain and helped develop the show as a member of choreographer Dein Perry’s creative team, both as a touring production and for individual promotional performances.
These individual events included many international shows such as ‘Wetten Das’ (with Whitney Houston, Mel C and Bryan Adams) and ‘The National Lottery Live’ and a wide variety of high profile corporate performances, including events for Mercedes, Audi, BMW, Toyota, Ball de Sports 2003, Fifa 2000 and the German Sports Awards where the troupe worked with boxing legend Mohammed Ali. He was also assistant choreographer on the Princes Trust Gala at Buckingham Palace in 2007.
More recently Douglas was the tap choreographer for the ‘Viva La Diva’ tour starring Darcey Bussell and Katherine Jenkins. Douglas has also worked extensively with top choreographer Kim Gavin on corporate shows for Toyota in Bologna, Paris and London. He has also formed his own dance group, which performs at corporate and allied events showing his work off to a wider audience. Douglas has previously performed and co-choreographed the tap routines in the Royal Albert Hall’s production of ‘Strictly Gershwin’ which celebrated its World Premiere in June 2008. After which he choreographed and performed in ITV’s ‘One Night Only’.
Douglas also performed in Take That’s Circus Tour as featured Tap dancer and most recently he was the tap choreographer for the P&O Azura Cruise Ship Launch 2010. He most recently performed for a limited season at the Novello Theatre in London’s West End along side Adam Garcia in ‘Tap Dogs’. Douglas is delighted to be back on ‘Simply Gershwin’.
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David Wood
David started dancing in Cyprus where he was brought up, before coming over to the UK to train at Laine Theatre Arts. Upon leaving he set about working as a dancer in London within the commercial dance scene.
He soon established himself as one of the leading commercial jazz dancers in the UK and went on to work with artists such as Kylie Minogue, Geri Halliwell, Holly Valance, Diana Ross, Lionel Ritchie, Boyzone, Sophie Ellis Bexter, Gloria Estefan, Louise and Atomic Kitten to name only but a few! He worked with them on their music videos and promotional tours. He took part in all the top TV shows from Top of the Pops to CDUK, and performed on tours travelling around the world from the USA to Japan and Australia to India.
He has also worked within the world of fashion choreographing shows for The Clothes Show live, G-Star, Top Shop, Nike and so forth. David was one of the faces of Lacoste in Paris, appearing in both their poster campaign and fashion shows. He has also featured in many tv commercials including Parmalat fruit juice, Kwik fit, Halifax, and DFS.
As a dancer there isn't anything David hasn't done from musical theatre to contemporary and everything inbetween.
Eventually the natural progression was to move into choreography and teaching. He has choreographed tv commercials for Levis, Coca Cola and MTV. He created and presented Martine McCutcheonʼs DanceBody workout dvd, as well as The Dirty Dancing Dvd. He has devised numerous trade, conference, fashion and beauty shows, up and down the country and abroad for, The Body Shop, Johnson & Johnson, Cobella Hair Saloons and the Asian Jewel Awards. More recently David was thrilled to be invited out to Los Angeles as one of the choreographers to collaborate on the recent re union tour of the Spice Girls! Working alongside Jamie King and giving one on one training with the girls.
His style is a fusion of all the dance elements he has come across, all the choreographersstyles he has worked with, as well as his own unique flare and expressive dance form.
Nathan Clarke
Nathan has been a professional dancer since the age of 16 and has performed worldwide with some of the world's most popular artists.
His choreography credits in the UK include performances by 'JLS' and 'Bananarama'.
Internationally Nathan has had a wide variety of experience from fashion shows in Australia to burlesque shows in Slovenia.
After choreographing for 'Costa Cruise Lines', he has now moved on to the 'MSC' fleet based in Italy.
He has produced and choreographed many shows in Maccau, China for 'the Glamour Girls', including performances for John Legend, Head Kandi and an extensive number of corporate events in the 'Sands' and 'Venetian casinos.
His choreography is modern, fresh and stylish and is much suited to television, theatre and fashion.
