The Talent 2012

A Toronto native, Natasha Powell is not only recognized as an extremely versatile and passionate artist, but more importantly, a soulful mover.  Dance only started out as a summer activity that her mother enrolled her in, not knowing that Natasha was about to meet the love of her life at the age of 9 years old.  Her training started in ballet, jazz, and tap, then branched out to street dance forms hip hop, house, waacking, and funk styles.  Her extensive dance vocabulary stems from training across North America with some of the best in these forms.  As a performer, select credits TV and film credits include Nickelodeon’s “Spectacular!”, HBO Series “The L Word”, and “Centre Stage 2”.

In 2008, Powell became co-Artistic Director and Choreographer of Toronto dance company Catalyst; a collective that is highly-respected for their creative, dynamic, and versatile story-telling methods, through the use of their highly diverse vocabulary in movement.  They have performed and hosted dance workshops across the Greater Toronto Area.  They are most known for their work in the Toronto Fringe Festival titled “The 5th Element” which received raving accolades from NOW Magazine, and other theatre reviewers, and was nominated as BEST DANCE PRODUCTION in  the 2011 Broadway World Toronto Awards.

In 2011, she founded Soul Committed Productions, an organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the vital core element in urban dance: soul.  Through workshops, programming, and choreography projects, her aim is to foster, inspire, educate and build relationships between the artists and the people that support them.