Natasha was one of 6 artists internationally selected for Complicité’s Idea Development Programme the Mudlarks International Residency where she developed her line of inquiry, what does enough look like?, and worked with Simon McBurney, Tim Crouch and climate justice activist, Samia Dumbuya

For more information : https://www.complicite.org/working-with-artists/mudlarks-international-residency/

She has been awarded seed funding from the Arts Development Company to develop an international arts residency programme across the South West alongside the 101 Outdoor Arts Seedbed Residency Award to fund and continue the work with her company Grace The Space which she co-founded with artist Ruth Pitter in 2021.

More information can be found here : https://101outdoorarts.com/seedbed-residencies/2024-seedbed-artists

Alongside this, Natasha founded her company Shared Collective in 2022 where she has been developing her own methodology in creative connections and play culminating in nearly two decades of experience to explore the performative nature of being in and amongst her community and internationally.

During the pandemic she received funding from the Arts Council England as part of their Transforming Leadership Programme where she spent a year as an Associate with Activate Performing Arts on the Women Leaders South West programme (WLSW).

The programme involved the WOW Foundation, a global movement to celebrate women and girls and to take a frank look at the obstacles they face and was designed to understand that women are under-represented at a leadership level across all art forms in theatres, festivals, galleries, and museums.

As part of the programme, Natasha co-founded Grace The Space with Bristol based artist Ruth Pitter, a free and inspiring community project for women, encouraging diverse groups of women to embrace outdoor spaces and explore creativity through interactive workshops and walking opportunities. The project is sponsored by Activate Performing Arts, AONB Dorset, National Trust, Dorset Food and Drink and the Dorset Race Equality Council.

Since relocating to Dorset and becoming a mum she has collaborated with Angel Exit on a devised piece exploring the climate crisis at Activate Performing Arts Inside Out Dorset Festival, with Landance on a dance performance in Lyme Regis with poet Vanessa Kisuule and was the judge, mentor and director for the winner of the Lighthouse Playwriting Price, St Ives by DA Nixon.

She also leads dance theatre classes for Grace and Growl, a contemporary dance company of older dancers, part of Fingerprint Dance CIC by Anna Golding.

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Previous projects include : Experimental dance theatre piece, Trigger Warning, which was the winner of the CPT's Jerwood Charitable Foundation Home Run commission.

Imagine Ryanair staging Beckett on a falling plane.

Presented by two charming hosts, Trigger Warning is a pre-show disclaimer to a show you may never see.

A jet-black absurdist comedy exploring the politics behind safe spaces and the culture of offence, pushing it to its logical breaking point and freewheeling along the tightrope between dance, clown, text and theatre.

Trigger Warning is a collaboration with writer Marcelo Dos Santos and performers Daniel Hay Gordon and Kath Duggan supported by UCL Culture, Young Vic, Dare Festival and Shoreditch Town Hall.

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Devising The Mabellous Route Home with designer Kirsty Harris and performers : Ben Thompson, Fiona Clift and Jordan Ajadi for a SEND audience (children with Special Education Needs and Disabilities) for the Young Vic Taking Part Department.

“Irrepressible joy sums up our young visitors experience of The Marbelous Route Home this morning.” (Teacher)

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Devising a piece for The British Museum as a performative response to their exhibition Edvard Munch Love and Angst with local schools.

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Working as the Movement Director on Ivan and the Dogs by Hattie Naylor and directed by Cat Shoobridge at The Young Vic, London.

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