Elzanne Crause-Fields studied at the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa, where she completed her national diploma in dance as a ballet major.
She performed as a principal dancer with Bovim Ballet, Cape Dance Company, and South African National Dance Trust and as a soloist dancer with Joburg Ballet and Free Flight Dance Co.
Elzanne also produced, choreographed, directed, and performed ‘HOPE,’ a fundraising event for south African orphans in collaboration with Young Blood Art Gallery.
Elzanne has worked with national and international choreographers from the USA, Sweden, Canada, Netherlands, and Spain.
She was employed in South Africa by various dance companies, including Tshwane Dance Theatre, Ballet Theatre African, South African Ballet Theatre (later Joburg Ballet), Darkroom Contemporary, and The Fugard Theatre.
During her employment at Tshwane Dance Theatre, her choreographic works for the company began her reputation as “one of the new and upcoming choreographers, “as reviewed by critics. Her accomplishments as a choreographer continued when another work, ‘Five,’ was invited to YAGP Finals NY 2020 and won outstanding ensemble at Icon Dance Convention 2020.
Her most recent work, ‘Parade,’ finished top 12, 2021 YAGP L.A. Her solo ‘Morphametisis’ won top 12 YAGP 2021, junior second runner up at Dancemakers Convention 2021, and 1st place at Spotlight Competition 2021. Elzanne has also had the wonderful opportunity to teach ballet, contemporary, body conditioning, and pilates to some of South Africa’s and San Diego’s top young dancers for the last five years.
Most recently, she has been training and teaching in Austin, Texas, where in addition to teaching ballet, she also started teaching PBT and CTR curriculum. Two of her students finished top 12 ballet at YAGP Houston in 2021.
In the same year, after five years of retirement from the stage, she entered the Ballet Beyond Borders ballet competition. She received a gold medal for her self-choreographed contemporary work “Truth to Freedom” and a bronze medal for her ballet variation from the ballet Raymonda.
Hannah Christian, formerly Hannah Bettes, began training at The Central Florida Ballet School. She then went on to train at Next Generation Ballet in Tampa, FL, and finished her training at The Royal Ballet School in London.
She has won multiple awards, including the Gold Medal in both the Junior & Senior Division at Youth America Grand Prix, the Silver Medal two years in a row at the World Ballet Competition, the Bronze Medal at The Beijing International Dance Invitational, as well as the 2nd prize and the “Audience Choice Award” at the prestigious Prix De Lausanne.
Shortly after her arrival at the Royal Ballet School, she was chosen as the Nadia Nernia Scholar. During her time at RBS, she danced with The Royal Ballet, performed at Buckingham Palace, was choreographed by Liam Scarlett, and worked with David Dawson.
She then joined the Boston Ballet in 2014 and was promoted to Second Soloist in 2017. Her most notable roles include the Principal Pas Girl in William Forsythe’s ‘Artifact,’ Aurora in ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ Sugar Plum in Mikko Nissinen’s ‘The Nutcracker,’ Pas Girl in Jerome Robbins’ Fancy-Free, and Effy in Bournonville’s ‘La Slyphide.
Hannah stopped dancing in 2018 to pursue other avenues and to attend a ministry school in Dallas, TX. After completing the program at Lifestyle Christianity University, she moved to Austin, TX in 2019 and began teaching full-time. She later received her Pilates certification on all seven apparatus through Club Pilates in 2020. She is passionate about working with young dancers to build up and encourage them in their faith through dance. She has taught all over the USA, including but not limited to MA, FL, CA, AZ, & TX. Hannah has also found success in business and Real Estate as an agent, property manager, investor, and hotelier. She is a true leader and entrepreneur.
The beginning of 2023, she was offered a contract to dance with Ballet Arizona, where she performed principal and soloist roles during the year she was there. Including Sanguinic in Balanchine’s ‘The Four Temperaments’ and Sugar Plum in Ib Anderson’s ‘The Nutcracker’.
Hannah has relocated back to Austin, TX to take over as Executive Director at both Redeeming Dance and Yeshua Ballet Theatre.
Some of her additional achievements include being on the cover of Pointe Magazine and being featured in Dance Magazine and Dance Spirit.
Cassidy de Kooker is a successful entrepreneur and professional dancer hailing from Johannesburg, South Africa. Her mother homeschooled her, and she began training at a high-performance center for dance at just nine years old.
Cassidy trained there until she was 17 years old, during which she completed her Cambridge AS-Levels, and then went on to study Exercise Science alongside pursuing a professional dancing career.
Cassidy has danced professionally with many esteemed companies and artists, including Royal Flux contemporary dance company in Los Angeles, CA, as a professional guest dancer in Dancing with the Stars and with singer-songwriter John Legend.
She has also performed with Debbie Rakusin, one of South Africa’s most respected and renowned choreographers/directors, in shows across South Africa between 2018 – 2022. Prior to that, she performed professionally with Bowring Levin Dance Company in their contemporary season of Equilibrium, which toured South Africa.
Additionally, Cassidy danced with South African Ballet Theatre (now Joburg Ballet) for 4.5 years, performing Corps de Ballet and Soloist roles in numerous ballets, including Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Cinderella, Giselle, La Bayadere, La Corsair, and The Nutcracker. In addition to her dance career, Cassidy has competed in multiple international ballets, modern, contemporary, and rhythmic gymnastics competitions from ages 7 – 17, including SAIBC, CTIBC, The Geneé, American Dance Awards, Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, IDO World Show Dance & Modern Championships in Germany, where she won gold, silver and bronze medals.
Since 2018, Cassidy has taught and choreographed for various dance organizations in South Africa, winning gold, silver, and bronze medals across international dance competitions in Portugal, Germany, Poland, and South Africa.
At 19 years old, she was selected to teach contemporary classes at the MOOV Dance Convention alongside Alex Wong and Tara-Jean Popowich in 2018. Aside from her dancing career, Cassidy is an entrepreneur.
She has launched two online businesses: Uplift Health & Fitness, where she inspires her clients to prioritize their health and fitness through her personal training expertise, and Kingdom Creations, where she creates Faith-Filled Home Décor to encourage people into a deeper walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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