Guest teachers Summer Intensive 2025
Natalie Thornley-Hall was born in Brighton (U.K) and grew up in Vancouver (Canada). She began her ballet training at a small private school in Vancouver; in 2014 she attended Next Generation Ballet at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, Florida. From 2010 to 2014
she took part in the Youth America Grand Prix. In 2011 she won the bronze medal in the New York Finals. In 2012 and 2014 Natalie was invited to perform in the YAGP Stars of Today Meet the Start of Tomorrow Galas. In 201 Natalie received a scholarship to attend the John Cranko
School in Stuttgart, Germany from which she graduated in 2019. Natalie Thornley-Hall then joined the Stuttgart Ballet as an apprentice and the following season was promoted to Corps de ballet. Natalie has performed a variety of soloist and Corps de Ballet roles with the Stuttgart Ballet. She has worked with world-renowned choreographers and ballet icons such as William Forsythe, John Neumeier, Jiri Kylian, Marcia Haydee, Natalia Makarova, David Dawson, and Hans Van Manen. Natalie’s repertoire includes a variety of Cranko’s works such as Onegin, Romeo and Juliet, Initials, Taming
of the Shrew, Opus 1 and Swan lake. Works by MacMillian such as Mayerling and Requiem. Neumier works such as Anna Karenina and The lady of the Camelia’s as well as Marcia Haydées Sleeping Beauty, Makarova’s Bayadere, works by Edward Clug, Uwe Scholz, Johan Ingwer, William Forsyth and more. Natalie has performed internationally with the Stuttgart Ballet in Japan, China, Taiwan, Netherlands, USA, Italy, and around Germany
Natalie is a regular teacher as Ballettstudio Royal in Stuttgart Germany, working with teenagers and adults of all levels in ballet, contemporary, and pointe work. In 2024, Natalie spent several weeks volunteering at Zama Dance School in South Africa, guest teaching for the children in
the Gugulethu slum outside of Cape Town. Natalie regularly works with the students of the John Cranko School in Stuttgart as a coach and mentor for young dancers. In 2021 and 2023 Natalie participated in charity performances and virtual interactive workshops for the children of the Annos One Fine Day Organization in Nairobi Kenya in collaboration with the Stuttgart Ballet.
she took part in the Youth America Grand Prix. In 2011 she won the bronze medal in the New York Finals. In 2012 and 2014 Natalie was invited to perform in the YAGP Stars of Today Meet the Start of Tomorrow Galas. In 201 Natalie received a scholarship to attend the John Cranko
School in Stuttgart, Germany from which she graduated in 2019. Natalie Thornley-Hall then joined the Stuttgart Ballet as an apprentice and the following season was promoted to Corps de ballet. Natalie has performed a variety of soloist and Corps de Ballet roles with the Stuttgart Ballet. She has worked with world-renowned choreographers and ballet icons such as William Forsythe, John Neumeier, Jiri Kylian, Marcia Haydee, Natalia Makarova, David Dawson, and Hans Van Manen. Natalie’s repertoire includes a variety of Cranko’s works such as Onegin, Romeo and Juliet, Initials, Taming
of the Shrew, Opus 1 and Swan lake. Works by MacMillian such as Mayerling and Requiem. Neumier works such as Anna Karenina and The lady of the Camelia’s as well as Marcia Haydées Sleeping Beauty, Makarova’s Bayadere, works by Edward Clug, Uwe Scholz, Johan Ingwer, William Forsyth and more. Natalie has performed internationally with the Stuttgart Ballet in Japan, China, Taiwan, Netherlands, USA, Italy, and around Germany
Natalie is a regular teacher as Ballettstudio Royal in Stuttgart Germany, working with teenagers and adults of all levels in ballet, contemporary, and pointe work. In 2024, Natalie spent several weeks volunteering at Zama Dance School in South Africa, guest teaching for the children in
the Gugulethu slum outside of Cape Town. Natalie regularly works with the students of the John Cranko School in Stuttgart as a coach and mentor for young dancers. In 2021 and 2023 Natalie participated in charity performances and virtual interactive workshops for the children of the Annos One Fine Day Organization in Nairobi Kenya in collaboration with the Stuttgart Ballet.
Sarah was raised in Hanna, Alberta where she began dancing at the age of five. She moved to Vancouver in 2013 to continue studying dance and has since trained with the Source Dance Company, EDAM, and Modus Operandi. She has had the pleasure to collaborate with; Paras Terezakis, Khoudia Toure, Jennifer Mascall, Isak Enquist, Constance Cooke and David Raymond & Tiffany Tregarthen. Sarah was chosen for Peggy Baker’s Emerging Artists Program in 2021. Touring with Shay Kuebler’s Radical System Art has brought her to perform across Canada, as well as France and Austria. Sarah is Co-Director of the contemporary dance company, generous mess (@generous_mess). generous mess’s work has been presented at Dancing On The Edge Festival, the EDAM Choreographic Series, and Left of Push. Sarah is privileged to live and dance as a guest on the traditional unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples – Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.