Natalie Allen (performer/co-creator/choreographer) Natalie Allen is a highly acclaimed dancer with a distinguished 16-year career, recognized for her exceptional talent and collaborative spirit. She has performed on national and international stages, working with esteemed choreographers and companies.

Career highlights include winning the 2013 Green Room Award for Best Female Dancer in Rafael Bonachela’s 2 One Another,performing in both Strut Dance’s 2016 presentation of Ohad Naharin’s Decadance and in 2017 William Forsythe’s One Flat Thing Reproduced, portraying Lady Macbeth in Punchdrunk's Sleep No More in Shanghai (2019),and her critically acclaimed, award winning solo work JULIA,co-created with Sally Richardson, which premiered at The State Theatre Centre WA in 2021.

As a choreographer, Natalie has created works showcased across Perth, regional Western Australia, Avignon, Taipei, Adelaide, Jakarta, Singapore, and Sydney. She has a great passion for unconventional performance spaces as they invite a bespoke creative process and the performer-audience relationship is amplified,which she highly values. As a performer, maker and teacher curiosity, play and innovation are richly woven through her artistic practice. Her ever-evolving creative practice, Seven Bodies, derivative from working with Maxine Doyle and her interest in Jacques Lecoq’s Seven Levels of Tension.Natalie continues to explore and garner ideas through clear intentions, drives,emotions, desires and daily human life both from an internal and external perspective,with the ambition to further understand and embody what it is to be a transformative storyteller.  

After facilitating as Rehearsal Director and performing as Clytemnestra in Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City in London, Natalie returned to Perth (Western Australia) in August 2023, where she later gave birth to her son in November 2023. In 2024 Natalie choreographed for the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) dance students, In the Closet, and completed her Fremantle Arts Centre residency with Sylvia Marina,The Abyss.

Currently, she is the Senior Movement Lecturer at WAAPA for the Acting Department, and is eager to embrace new opportunities, nurture collaborations, mentor emerging artists, and balance her roles as a mother and artist.

IN addition to JULIA, for Steamworks Natalie has performed in Rites: Dying to Dance (2016) #thatwomanjulia for STRUT Shortcuts, and NEXT(STCWA) for Move Me Festival 2018, and was part of the Feminism has No Borders project (Perth Festival 2021)