Natalia Palshina is a freelance choreographer and dancer whose artistic focus lies in multimedia performance and site-specific formats.
She graduated with honors from Vienna State Opera ballet academy and has been dancing for over 20 years in different projects, festivals and theatres like Vienna States Opera, Staatsbalett Berlin, West Australian Ballet, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz , Theater Regensburg, FLUSSO dance project, Zero Dance Gallery as well as a guest dancer in numerous productions at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, since then.
Today her rich stage experience and divers repertoire – from classical and modern ballet to dance theatre and improvisation – help her to create unique multimedia performances and solo works by crossing genres.
Since 2017, she has been living and working in Berlin. Her choreographic works include, among others GlassLab (2020/21), Wachet auf (2021), State of Security (2023), Tangenti (2020), Space Relations – Kraftort (2023), STUDIOTRONIKA LIVE (2025), Son (2025), and Dancing Poetry (2018). In 2024, she was involved as a dancer and co-choreographer in ReFramed (Framed Festival Berlin).
In 2023, she received funding through NEUSTART KULTUR – DIS-TANZEN, a program of the German Dance Association, which enabled her to further develop her artistic research in the field of site-specific and interdisciplinary performance formats.
Her dance outreach projects for refugee youth are regularly supported by programs such as Chance Tanz, Aktion Mensch, and VHS.
CV
Education
1993 – 1995 Contemporary dance school of N. Ogryzkov
1995 – 2000 Moscow Ballet Academy
2000 – 2002 Vienna State Opera Ballet Academy
2020 – 2021 Theaterpädagogik bei Interkulturell-Aktiv e.V.
2015 – 2021 Dance therapy bei Deutsche DGT e.V.
Career
2001 Ballets des Jeunes d’Europe, Lubéron
2002 – 2006 Vienna State Opera Ballet
2006 – 2007 Berlin State Ballet
2007 – 2008 West Australian Ballet
2009 – 2012 Theater Regensburg
2012 – 2015 State Theather „Am Gärtnerplatz“, Munich
since 2015 freelance dancer and choreographer
Leading & Solo Roles
Clara – „The Nutcracker“ (Ivan Cavallari)
Luisa – „The Nutcracker“ (Patrice Bart)
Olga (with V. Malakhov) – „Onegin“ (John Cranko)
Lilith – „Lilith” (Olaf Schmidt)
Carabosse – „The Sleeping Beauty“ (Karl Schreiner)
Queen of Hearts – „Alice in Wonderland“ (Simon Dow)
Peasants' Pas de deux – „Giselle
Little Swans & Solo Neapolitan Dance – „The Swan Lake“ (Rudolf Nurejew)
The Singing Canary Fairy & Pas de quatre – „The Sleeping Beauty“ (Marius Petipa, Peter Wright)
The Time – „Petrushka“ (Renato Zanella)
The Cat – „Peter and the Wolf“ (Emanuele Soavi)
Desdemona – „Otello“ (Lukas Gaudernak)
„Six Dances” (Jiri Kylian)
„Step Lightly” (Paul Lightfood)
„Theme & Variations” (George Balanchine)
„Allegro Brillante” (George Balanchine)
Other Roles: „Raymonde”; „Triangle”;„Coppelia”; „Sylvia”; „Manon”; „Bajadere”; „La Fille mal gardée”, „How do you like it” - John Neumeyer; „Barocco&Co”, „Exit” & „Oblita Pax” - Vanessa Tamburi; „Spartakus”, „Cinderella”, „Cadetball“, „Beethoven Opus 73” - Renato Zanella; “Romeo and Juliet” - John Cranko; „Night of the Hunter” - Nikolaus Adler; „Carmina Burana” - Olaf Schmidt; „Schlagobers”, „Berlin 1920” - Karl Schreiner; „Arsen” - Jo Stromgen; „Minutemade” - Christopher Roman, Georg Reischl, Marco Goecke, Alexander Ekman, Mauro Astolfi, Antony Rizzi;
Fotos by Sam Marzbani
Choreographies
"GlassLab 2021” Performing Arts Festival Berlin, 28.05.21
“Wachet auf” Genezarethkirche, Berlin 16.04.2021
“Tangenti” Sansakar Festival, Virtual Performance 15.08.2020
"GlassLab 2020” BHR OX bauhaus reuse, Berlin 06.06.2020
“Guilty Without Guilt” Theater Rumina, Moskau 19.11.2019
“Dancing Poetry” Cultural Center Come-In, Moskau 15.11.2018
“Game of Tones” Abakan Philharmonic 24.09.2018
"Openers" Fashion4Charity, Fashion Week Berlin, 20.01.2017
"Sun" Festival Architecture-Body-Dance, Moskau 24-27.07.2010
"Netz" Theater Regensburg, 2013
"Circle Ruins" Open Stage Theater, Moskau 3-5.09.2009
Festivals
Spoleto Dancing Festival, Italien, Visa 2 Dance, Tanzania, Invito alla danza Festival, Italien, Art-Ovrag, Russland, LaLa-Festival, Deutschland, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin Deutschland , 1st International Screendance Festival ,Freiburg, Deutsfchland, Sansakar virtual Festival, Performing Arts Festival Berlin, Framed Festival Berlin.
