Natalia Maria Wojciechowska

POLAND

Awards & Titles

2011

• Polish National Pole Dance Competition – 2nd

2008

• German Eurovision for Young Dancers – 4th

1999

• National Dance Competition in Gdańsk, Senior Division – 1st
• International Dance Competition Prix de Lausanne – Finalist, awarded with Scholarship
• Happag Lloyd’s Scholarship for Talented Youth

Natalia is the artistic Director of Pole Dance Project and President of Pole Dance and Fitness Association Poland. She was born on 29th of January 1983 in Warsaw/Poland. Natalia is a graduate of John Neumeier Hamburg Ballet School.

While still just a student, Natalia danced the leading role in “The Nutcracker” by John Neumeier at the prestigious Nijinsky Gala in Hamburg in 2001. She attended the State Ballet School in Warsaw up to 1999. As a student in Poland, Natalia won a great many awards and as well as a scholarship at the Prix de Lausanne International Dance Competition in January 1999, which enabled her to go to the prestigious Hamburg Ballet School. Natalia has worked with many great choreographers, including: John Neumeier, Mats Ek, Maurice Bejart and Kevin, Kevin Haigen, Aleksiej Ratmansky, Emil Wesołowski and Krzysztof Pastor.

After graduating from the Hamburg Ballet School, Natalia joined Neumeier’s Ballet Company, and in her very first season danced many ensemble parts and small solos and was also given the part of Olimpia in “Lady of Camellias”. In 2003-2006 she mainly worked with the ROMA Musical Theater and Warsaw Operetta Theater as a soloist. As of September 2007 she is a soloist of the Polish National Ballet, where she has danced many interesting and challenging parts. More recently, Natalia has been collaborating with famous German painter – Jaqcues Gassmann – creating performances unlike others, which are dialog between dancer and painter. With this project they tour around Germany and more recently also show their performance at international art festivals.

In 2009, Natalia started to train in pole dance, and also begun her collaboration with Club New Orleans, where she works as Artistic Director. This collaboration, which in a way is a mélange of ballet art with Pole Dance brought interesting idea of creating ‘PoleDanceProject’ – the first Polish agency for professional Pole Dance dancers and instructors, of which Natalia is the creator and director. Recently she founded the Pole Dance and Fitness Association Poland (PDFA POLAND), of which she is president.

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