About Natalia

Following a performance career with American Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Staatsballet Berlin, Natalia Boesch turned her focus to teaching and writing about ballet.

Natalia currently teaches at Ballet Hispanico, Manhattan Youth Ballet (MYB), and elsewhere. The former Director of Curriculum and Head of Primary Levels for MYB, she has also been a visiting instructor at Neglia Ballet, Steps Academy, and Ballet Tech. She is an ABT Certified Teacher in levels Pre-Primary through Level Three.

Her writing has appeared in magazines including Dance, Dance Teacher, and Pointe, for which she authored wrote columns. (See below for sample articles.)

Natalia began her training at the School of American Ballet. During her ten years there, she danced with the New York City Ballet in nearly every role for children in their repertoire.

In SAB workshops, she danced works by Balanchine, most notably Harlequinade and Le Tombeau de Couperin, as well as ballets by Jerome Robbins and Christopher Wheeldon. 

Upon completing her training at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School, Natalia joined the Pacific Northwest Ballet as a corps member. Under the direction of Francia Russell, she performed in many of Balanchine’s most famous ballets, including Agon, Serenade, Concerto Borocco, Western Symphony, Ballet Imperial, and La Valse.

Her repertory there also included classics such as Paquita and Ronald Hynd’s Sleeping Beauty, and newer works by Peter Martins, Kent Stowell, and Lynn Taylor-Corbett. 

In 2003, Natalia joined the corps of American Ballet Theatre, where she danced for three years in all the great classics, including Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Le Corsaire, Don Quixote, Giselle, and La Bayadere.

She also performed in Agnes DeMille’s Rodeo and in the premiere of Kaleidoscope by choreographer Peter Quanz. With ABT she toured all over the country as well as to Japan. 

In 2008, Natalia joined the Staatsballett Berlin, under the direction of Vladimir Malakhov. As a corps member there, she performed in John Cranko’s Onegin and in the premiere of Malakhov’s La Peri, among others. 

In 2010 Ms. Boesch staged and danced as a soloist in the Jen DeNike art piece Scrying, choreographed by Melissa Barak. Throughout her career, Natalia appeared as a soloist with Dances Patrelle in Manhattan.