Talitha is a registered ISTD Cecchetti Ballet Teacher (2011-), and the founder of the Rhythm of Hope Dance Outreach Ballet Program (est. 2013). Having received ballet, modern/Jazz and Spanish training from some of the best in the South African Ballet Industry (former member of the YDCT Ballet Company 2000-2007) she loves and appreciates the discipline and artistry of classical ballet. But her years of training and touring with 13th Floor (Formerly C-Kruis (2009-2012), her time at Bethel School of Worship (July 2014), the completion of her BTH degree, and the last three years of coordinating Doxa Deo Brooklyn’s dance ministry team, has helped her witness and experience the power and effectiveness of movement and dance as ministry tool. She has a passion to help people establish their identities in Christ, through dance. Her aim and hope with this Rhythm of Hope is to uplift people’s lives and communities through excellent dance training.
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Tienie-Louise has a strong personal drive to positively impact less privileged communities and is inspired by the projects undertaken by ROHO. She is an Industrial Engineer by trade, with work experience in Supply Chain & Operations consulting as well as Business Analytics and Improvement. Her strong organizational and analytical skills bring a unique perspective on problem solving and strategy in projects. Over the past 10 years, she has been involved with several upliftment projects in the Gauteng region. ROHO is close to her passion, as it combines her love for dance with the intent of uplifting underprivileged children.

As an alumni of Ernst & Young, Hendri has more than 7 years’ experience in financial and general management. Hendri is a CFP® and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Planning. His passion is to inspire people through innovative, productive and focused administration and he currently lives out this passion as part of Ultima Financial Planner’s Management Team. As a drummer/musician, Hendri was also part of “C-Kruis” later called 13thFloor for 2 years and has a passion for upliftment through the arts and music in particular.

Judy trained in Royal Academy of Dancing method but eventually qualified in the Cecchetti Ballet method. She achieved her Advanced 2 exams in both Ballet methods. Over the years she has danced, choreographed and taught for her own part time dance company for 6 years. She also collaborated with companies like Tshwane Dance Company and KMAD and taught for a 6 years period at Tom Arts College, performing with Tom Company in contemporary, jazz and ballet styles. She has also been a guest teacher at South African Ballet Theatre. She has also traveled to Russia three times (2011-2012) collaborating with a Russian ballet producer from St Petersburg, and has facilitated a gap year for dancers in association with Target Life Gap year in 2013, called The Stage Coach.

Lizette is a business consultant that specializes in call centre design, audit, turnaround programmes, management training and coaching and workforce optimisation. She is a qualified facilitator, trainer, assessor and professional graphologist and completed her Honours degree in Psychology. Lizette has participated in the design and development of the workforce optimization tool called Shadowmatch (www.shadowmatch.co.za). She is fluent in English and Afrikaans and speaks and reads basic French and Russian. Lizette did ballet for many years and has a passion for dancing. She chose to become involved in the Rhythm of Hope (ROH) initiative to contribute both strategically and in the personal development of the ROH team holistically as well as individually. Lizette believes that by empowering people with self-knowledge and enabling them to be their true selves, ultimately leads to happy and successful individuals with a positive and strong ego position.

With Joy Skills Development Project Manager  & Bursary Student Project Manager.

Jacqueline is a Skills Development Program Manager that has a heart for helping other find and identify skills in themselves and partnering with them to watch theses skills grow and develop. In 2018 Jacque’ did her DTS with YWAM where she worked on the community outreach team that prioritized getting to know the families in Papua New Guinea in order to identify their needs. In 2019 she staffed a backpackers DTS that moved around different locations in South East Asia and Southern Africa, spreading the gospel but mainly helping wherever help was needed, including building a library. She was a team leader on outreaches where she organized outreach opportunities for the team as well as places to stay.

After YWAM she felt a calling to Africa and development so she applied to study further to learn the different hurdles, challenges and opportunities that are currently at work in South Africa and the global community. In 2021 she finished her BAdmin in Public Management and International Relations. During this time Jacque was a model UN mentor (2021 and 2022) where she discovered a deep love for empowerment and watching people grow and discover new skills they didn’t know they had. In 2022 she finished her honors in International Relations with her research paper focusing on Quantum leadership in mediation which helped her to identify different leadership and mediation models. She plans to finish her PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner) certification in 2024.

Her dream is to partner with people at the top of their fields to go into communities and partnership with the people there. To identify skills in people, empower them and help them to draw out those talents and skills and learn how to use them effectively. She is very excited and hopeful to go on the journey with With Joy as it opens the door to partner with experts and gives the opportunity for many to identify skills within themselves and grow.

Born with a love for dancing, Larissa started ballet at age 4 and has since participated in every Musical, Concert and competition she possibly could. In Primary school, she started Hip Hop classes in the SADTA syllabus and later transitioned to AIDT training, adding Tap and Contemporary styles to her repertoire and still actively enjoys these 4 dance disciplines.

She represented South-Africa as part of the SA Dance Team, in the World Dance Masters in Croatia. In 2017, she completed her AIDT Hip Hop and Associate exams, as well as the necessary AIDT Tap exams to commence with her Associate Training in this discipline.

In her own capacity Larissa started teaching pre-school ballet in 2013. Thereafter she taught her own ‘Love for Dance classes’ (combining ballet, contemporary and musical theatre disciplines) for the next 3 years, for children, students and adults. In 2015, she choreographed Maragon Olympus’ concert, and also started a Children’s Dance Ministry team at Doxa Deo Brooklyn.

She currently teaches ROHD’s Hopeful Hopper (Pre-School) Ballet-, Love for Dance-, Hip Hop- and Tap classes for children and adults. She is also still part of their Pure Hope Outreach, teaching ballet and Hip Hop. She is also leading the Dance Ministry at Doxa Deo Brooklyn, and doing Garsfontein Laerskool’s revue. She is also the Choreographer of the Jona Musical in September 2021. Having also completed her Pastoral Counselling and Psychology Degree in 2017, she hopes to combine counselling and dance, as practical form of therapy in the near future.

Larissa recently won the reality TV show, Ster-Status/Apprentices 2021 SA to follow her dream to open doors in the Industry, but to also make a difference in the lives of women.

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Marika qualified as a teacher in the Cecchetti Ballet method. She has passed her Advanced 1 exam and is working towards her Advanced 2. She is also a member of the Spanish dance Society of South Africa, having achieved her Segundo Año estudiante exam and currently also working towards the Instructor de Baile exam. She still enjoys dancing and performing with the Montoya Spanish Dance Academy and Theatre.