Elizabeth Honan has firmly established herself as one of the UK’s most respected creative forces in the industry today.Her portfolio of successful high profile stadium & arena tours for No. 1 artists has made her a sought after visionary and campaign creator.
Elizabeth Honan, Creative Director & Choreographer has spent the past 11 years working predominantly in the music industry 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 for every job she takes. Elizabeth began her career as a professional dancer working for an array of artists such as Lionel Richie, Robbie Williams, Cheryl Cole and One Direction. This gave Elizabeth the opportunity to tour the world, for large scale arena shows, television and theatre, providing her with invaluable experience in a diverse range of dance styles which she has taken with her as a choreographer.
Elizabeth worked with Girls Aloud for nine years choreographing many of their dance routines for music videos including ‘The Promise’. She was also responsible for the sensational choreography and production of their five sell-out arena tours
Another of Elizabeth’s A-List clients is Cheryl Cole. Elizabeth choreographed Cheryl Cole’s iconic music video ‘Fight For This Love’ . Elizabeth went on to choreograph the tv performances for the number 1 single, including Cheryl’s performance on ‘The Voice’, where she famously swan dived on to the stage. In October 2012 Cheryl then went on to tour the UK with her first solo Tour ‘A Million Lights’ where again, Beth was flown to LA to work with the dancers and Cheryl on her iconic pieces for the show
Elizabeth had the great pleasure of working with JLS from a year into their careers till the day they ended which was a very memorable 5 years. She was their Creative Director and Show Producer for all of their UK arena tours
Since 2009 Elizabeth has been producing the large-scale concerts ‘Capital Jingle Bell Ball’ live at the 02 and ‘Capital Summertime Ball’ live at Wembley Stadium for Capital FM. These massive scale events continue to feature the biggest music artists in the industry, including Justin Timberlake, Usher, Pharrell, Miley Cyrus, Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry, Ne-YO
One of Elizabeths passions is classical music and she has the great honor of being the creative director of the ‘Classic FM’ live concerts at the Royal Albert Hall twice a year.
In January 2011 Elizabeth became the show producer and choreographer on Britain’s ‘The X Factor’ UK National Tour, which saw the show being taken to new, spectacular levels. This lead on to Elizabeth assuming the role of creative director and choreographer, on the ‘The X Factor’ 2011 live TV shows. Elizabeth has continued to create and choreograph the UK tours, and regularly continues to work with some of the artists who then go on to have careers in the music industry after the ITV show.
Elizabeth has been working with all female band Little Mix from day one, from their first live performance on the X Factor in 2011. Little Mix are very well known for the high energy routines and spectacular performances. Elizabeth as worked with the girls on all of their promos over the last three years, including travelling to New York to work with the girls on their performance on the the hugely popular US show ‘Good Morning America’. In 2014 Elizabeth had the pleasure of creating and choreographing their ‘Salute’ arena tour,
Elizabeth is also the creative director for pop singer Olly Murs. Elizabeth started working with Olly when he embarked on his first solo tour around the UK theatres and has had the pleasure of watching him progress to two massive sell out UK arena tours garnering great reviews all the way.
In 2013 Elizabeth worked with Robin Thicke, creating his very slick performances of ‘Blurred Lines’ on the UK X Factor Television show, and at the MTV EMA’s live in Amsterdam.
Elizabeth has worked with the biggest band in the world One Direction, when she created their one off sell out show in New York’s famed Madison Square Garden and then their 163 date massive world tour.
The start of 2015 has seen Elizabeth working as the Creative and Choreographer for the return of ‘Stars In Their Eyes’ on ITV
Elizabeth also took on the role of the Creative and Choreographer, for the Entertainment series ‘Get Your Act Together’, which aired on ITV early 2015
Elizabeth has also been working with 2014 X Factor runner up Fleur East on her recent gigs in the UK including the secret ‘Twitter Stories’ gig at The Roundhouse in Camden.
Elizabeth is available for:
– Consultation
– Creative Director
– Concept Design
– Choreographer
– Show Producer
– Artist Development & Coaching