DANCE

Natasha began dancing at the age of 3 and trained at the Elizabeth Hill School of Dance and Drama in St. Helens. She was also a Senior Associate of the Royal Ballet School and Northern Ballet Academy. She has trained in the styles of ballet, tap, modern, jazz and contemporary, and also studied classical Indian dance with Jayanthi Sivakumar in Manchester. She enjoyed much success from a young age, qualifying for the All England Dance National Finals seven times and winning a total of 17 gold medals. At the age of 10, being one of the youngest dancers in the category, she won the title of ‘English Junior Ballet Champion’ and went on to win the English, British and International Senior Ballet Championships. She also won North of England Championships in Tap, Modern and Song & Dance.

In 2008 she was Runner-Up in the national Fonteyn Nuryev Young Dancers junior competition in London, where all the finalists had the opportunity to be coached, as a group and on a one-to-one basis, with the late choreographer Dame Gillian Lynne. In 2013 she won the very prestigious ‘All England Young Dancer of the Year’ award at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London, adjudicated by Dame Beryl Grey, and was also awarded the Molly Tanner national award for her Bharatanatyam solo (a form of classical Indian dance).

Natasha loves to incorporate dance in her opera work and has had much success bringing this facet to some of her roles - most notably Neera Migrations (WNO), Frasquita Carmen (OHP) and Gianetta The Gondoliers (ETO). She was also invited by WNO to film a music video for a contemporary piece called The Pledge (in which she sang and danced).