Natalia Bashkatova

Natalia Bashkatova

Guest teacher

Natalia will be teaching

Ballet, Pointe, Repertoire, conditioning

About Natalia

Natalia Bashkatova has more than 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry, and is a highly talented artist.

Born in Russia, Bashkatova trained at the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow and Bolshoi Ballet University. She became a principal dancer for the prestigious Bolshoi Theater Grigorovich Ballet from 1989-1994 and immediately after was a guest principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. Her reper- toire included many title roles in the great classics including Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, Kitri in Don Quixote, Swanhilda in Coppelia, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake among many others. Awards include “Best Ballerina of the Festival” at the 1992 Spoletto International Arts Festival held in Spoletto, Italy. She has toured worldwide to countries including Holland, Greece, Egypt, Hong Kong, France, and Belgium among many others.

After moving to the United States, she joined Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas as a lead dancer in Mystere. In 1998, she moved to Orlando to perform in Cirque du Soleil’s “La Nouba” where she finished her career in 2017. She has been featured in numerous television commercials, interviews, and videos with Cirque du Soleil.

Natalia is founder of ARTASTAR ARTIST MANAGEMENT and PRODUCTION company, which supports the dancers from the foreign countries. One of the directions of her company is sup- port young talented dancers of new ballet generation . Witch gives them an opportunity to get selected to be a part of the new production and have the chance to be on stage with the most re- cent world known ballet dancers.