A Toronto native, Natasha Powell is not only recognized as an extremely versatile and passionate artist, but more importantly, a soulful mover. 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. 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 events, her aim is to foster, inspire, educate and build relationships between the artists and the people that support them.
Natasha will be on our live today at 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific. She will be talking “Gimmie One Riddim”, an upcoming production in which she is the Co-Producer/Choreographer.
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About “Gimmie One Riddim”:
Gimme One Riddim is presented by TD’s Then and Now 2013 Black History Month Series. It runs from March 13 – 15 at the Winchester Street Theatre, 8 p.m. nightly. Tickets are $25 ($15 before February 19) and can be purchased at http://gimmeoneriddim.eventbrite.ca/
“Gimme One Riddim” features an all Black cast, featuring five male Black dancers; Hollywood Jade, Shavar Blackwood, Roney Lewis, Brandon “Bizzy” Owosu and Irvin Washington.
The show is one hour in length, featuring music from Baba Brooks, Toots & The Maytals, Bob Marley and the Wailers, and top Ska band – The Skatalites. The show is a modern dance production that will also feature film and video elements.
It opens with visual images of the day Jamaica gained independence. It goes in peaks and valleys, from celebrating the joys of freedom, to revealing poverty and oppression, to love, to following dreams, to kick your heels up concert-style performances. While set to music of the 60’s, the movement of “Ska” dances of that time, is incorporated with hip hop and contemporary dance styles.
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