Chelsie Hightower

Dancing has been a major part of Chelsie's life from a very young age. Being trained in all styles of dance. Chelsie's specialty is ballroom, where she has had the opportunity to receive thorough and extensive training from current and former world champions such as: Corky and Shirley Ballas, Jonathan Wilkins and Katusha Demidova, Karina Sminoff, Paul Green, Vibeka Taus, Goran Nordin, Louis VanAmstel and others. Chelsie has traveled around the world competing for many years now. In 2005, she was asked to be one of the four couples in the country to be on Team USA, in Blackpool, England, which holds the most prestigious competition in the world. She represented USA in Latin style, where Team USA took 3rd place behind Ukraine and Russia. That same year Chelsie had the opportunity to be one of the two couples from USA to represent the United States in the worlds at Lavita for the Standard style of ballroom. Chelsie spent the summer of 2006, teaching in North Carolina and training in New York. In September of 2006, at the age of 17 she became an international finalist, being the only American couple to make it that far. Ballroom has been a passion and opportunity for Chelsie to use her natural talents in dance. Ever since Chelsie began competing at a high level in ballroom, she has been in the finals and ranked as one of the top three couples in the country.

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