Heather Nickens O'Hara-Austin TX & Fort Lauderdale FL

Holding a dance certification in the State of Texas and graduating from Texas State with a BFA in Exercise Sports Science and Specialization in Dance. Heather holds a CFT-II Personal Training certification and is Allegro Pilates Certified.
She is a former Radio City Rockette from New York City for the “Radio City Christmas Spectacular", she danced professionally for Cruise Lines "Celebrity" & "Asuka", in Las Vegas Productions in the "Tournament of Kings" at the Excalibur Hotel & Casino & "Rockettes" at the Flamingo Hilton, Today Show for the Rockettes, 102 Dalmatians Movie preview at Radio City NYC, “Diamond Rio” Music Video, motion capture stunts for “Tiberian Sun”, “Renegade”, “Dune” and more. Heather also performed in a Cirque du Soleil hand to hand balancing act in the Radio City Rockette Show in Las Vegas. While in Vegas Heather competed in Ms Fitness where she won the title of Ms Fitness Las Vegas, Ms Fitness West Coast and placed 6th Ms Fitness USA and 12th Ms Fitness World. While in New York Heather became the top Personal Trainer at Bally's Total Fitness where she developed their nutritional program. Through her Fitness ventures she was featured in Oxygen & Ms Fitness Magazines as well as Dance Magazine. Among her many accomplishments, Heather participated as an adjudication judge last year for Talent on Parade National dance competition and Showstoppers.

Heather is also an established choreographer and has worked with many professional companies throughout the United States. She is currently working with Celebrity Cruises through Poet Productions training trapeze artists, teaching choreography to Celebrity casts and will be starting the creation on a new show that will open on board an inaugural season July 2011. She has won many outstanding overall choreography awards and received overall grand champion for her dance studio (Broadway Dance & Fitness) 2 years in a row. Heather's students have won overall dance awards, scholarships, agency awards and have gone on to pursue scholarships at Layola Marymount in Los Angeles, members of the Los Angeles Cirque Academy and participants of the internship at Broadway Dance Center in New York. Heather continues to teach at Ballet Austin in Austin TX and choreographs for studios and High School Drill teams all over the U.S.

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