BIO

Natasha Michelle Diamond- Walker, born in Granada Hills, California has always been called to the arts- loving to dance, act, sing, and design. At the age of 10, she attended a performance of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Los Angeles with her parents and her dream of becoming a professional dancer was ignited!  And, so it all began. Along the way she would find her greatest dance mentors and teachers: Leah Bass-Baylis, Ka Ron Brown-Lehman, Karen McDonald, and Don Martin.

With this focus in dance Natasha attended Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, better know as, “LACHSA”. In her Senior year of high school she was accepted into the illustrious Fordham University- Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater BFA Dance program in New York City. Upon graduation from the Ailey/Fordham program she went on to dance professionally with a variety of choreographers in NYC including Whitney Hunter, Martin Lofsnes, Errol Grimes, Jacquelyn Buglisi, Andrea Miller, Francesca Harper, Samar Haddad King, and Hope Boykin.

In 2011, Natasha auditioned for the Martha Graham Dance Company and was given the opportunity to join the cast of ‘Cercando Picasso’- a new work created by Italian Director Antonio Calenda with the assistance of Artistic Director of MGDC, Janet Eilber. Cercando Picasso was a cast of nine dancer women and a single Italian actor by the name of Giorgio Albertazzi. It toured throughout Italy, performing in nearly every region, for the better part of two years. When Picasso came to a close Natasha went on to perform in Pirandello and Baccanti at the Teatro Greco Summer festival in Siracusa, Sicily- two additional collaborations featuring Martha Graham dancers. In 2012, on a warm and beautiful beach day in Sicily, Artistic Director, Janet Eilber invited Natasha to join the main company of Martha Graham. Her first NY season with Graham was in February 2013 at the Joyce Theater. Today, Natasha performs as a soloist with the Martha Dance Graham Company and has the immense honor to dance lead roles in Graham’s Appalachian Spring, Diversion of Angels, Embattled Garden, Cave of the Heart, Ekstasis (solo), Maple Leaf Rag, Secular Games, Clytemnestra, Herodiade, and Lamentation (solo). While at Graham she has worked with and originated roles in the ballets of the great Contemporary choreographers: Andonis Foniadakis, Liz Gerring, Nacho Duato, Kyle Abraham, Sonya Tayeh, Annie- B. Parson, Pam Tanowitz, Maxine Doyle and Bobbi Jene Smith.

Outside of Graham, Natasha enjoys legit and commercial work as an actress/ dancer/ performer. She has trained at the Esper Studio with Barbara Marchant, the Susan Batson Studio, and with John Howard Swain. Her credits include: Bust and Dance Spirit Magazine. Online Campaigns for Lakes and Stars, Only Hearts, Eighteenth, Jane Iredale, Sephora. Live Performance: the YouTube Awards, Brandcast for Google, NBC Live Up Front, Hermes Miami Launch, Essence Festival NOLA. Commercials: GNC, Atlas, Extend Bar, PSEG, Palmer’s, PaperMate. Television: Gotham, Friends From College, The Breaks, Mr. Robot. Film: The Sixth Borough by Reed Luplau & Morgan Marcell, and Aviva by Boaz Yakin & Bobbi Jene Smith.

Natasha is also a published author, writing content for health and fitness. She is the owner and creator of SLEEKFIIT. And a fitness instructor specializing in Stretching, Strength & Conditioning, and Pilates.