After a career with American Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Staatsballet Berlin, Natalia is currently the Director of Curriculum at Manhattan Youth Ballet.

She guest-teaches at Ballet Hispanico, Steps, and Neglia Ballet, and has written about teaching ballet for Dance, Pointe and Dance Teacher magazines.

Natalia received her training at the School of American Ballet. In her varied career with PNB, ABT, and in Berlin, she had the opportunity to perform in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Christopher Wheeldon, Lynn Taylor-Corbett, John Cranko, and Agnes DeMille, as well as all the great classic story ballets.

It is her great joy to pass along what she learned to the next generation of young dancers.