Teacher.
Natasha Wakim instills passion and the love of dance into the hearts of everyone she has the opportunity to teach. Additionally, she improves her students’ technique and fills her classroom with positivity, welcoming anyone who desires to dance, with open arms.
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Tap.
There is more to tap dancing than stomping around, making sounds with one’s feet. Yes, there is a critical movement aspect of tap dancing, but musicality plays an enormous role in tap dance as well. Countless professional tap dancers will attest to the fact that tap shoes can be considered musical instruments. Not only can they be considered musical instruments, they should be considered musical instruments.
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Jazz.
Jazz dance is simply a combination of cultural preservation with cultural promiscuity. The Lindy Hop is still being taught in age 7-9 beginner jazz. While modern jazz is just waiting to be fused with the next popularized social dance that emerges. Jazz is forever changing and should change but when teaching jazz there is an objective to pass a history along with the movement. It is important to be well-rounded and teach all aspects that make jazz dance what it is.
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Ballet.
Ballet is the core of technique and is very easily taught wrong. In order to communicate to students what needs to be done to achieve proper technique, there needs to be a presence of semantics and understanding of the goal of what’s being taught. Reviewing the telos of each exercise and confirming that there is an end to the means is an important part of teaching such a complicated yet exquisite art form.
Resume.
I am a performer, teacher, choreographer, and human. I aspire to maintain humanistic qualities within performing, teaching, and choreographing. I emphasize inclusivity, and I spend my time trying to facilitate a space for anyone to experience dance. I am consistently inspired by the people in my life and the unbelievable feats that they successfully take on. I enable an experience that fosters encouragement, compassion, and most importantly: humanity. I love to investigate the ways I can use the incredible vessel that is the human body to impact people through dance. I take these life experiences, in combination with discovery of my body and its unique abilities, and explore the ways I can foster connection whether it’s through teaching, performing, choreographing, or just making it through another day. I want to dive deeper into an authentic form of connection and how dance connects people in ways that are distinctive to dance. This connection is the driving force in my quest to make dance as accessible as possible. In order to achieve this, I continue educating myself, moving in a direction that will connect me with a wide variety of people.