New York City-based choreographer, director and teacher Natalie Lomonte will be joining Parsons Dance as Associate Artistic Director, a newly created position. Adding Natalie to our staff means welcoming her home. A Parsons dancer from 2008 to 2009, she eventually pivoted from performer to choreographer.
In 2014, she returned to Parsons Dance in this new role, serving as David’s assistant when he created repertory works Whirlaway and The Introduction. In 2015, she received our first GenerationNOW choreography fellowship to create Within which premiered and The Joyce. In 2018, she spent six months in Japan assisting David in creating the choreography for A Knight’s Tale. "Performing with Parsons Dance is a rush like no other; the movement still lives in my bones,” says Natalie, “I am honored to return once again to work with David and the company."
Her performance experience beyond Parsons includes dancing for MOMIX and Pilobolus, appearances in the film Sex and The City 2 and in the original Broadway cast of Spiderman:Turn Off the Dark. Following her career as a dancer, she served as Assistant Stage Director and Choreographer to Mia Michaels for The New York Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes. Since 2012, she has been the movement director for One Year Lease Theater Company.
A devoted dance teacher, she has taught at Fordham University, and has led movement workshops at Harvard, Vassar, PACE and Marymount Manhattan, where she currently serves as Vice President of the Dance Department Advisory Board.
“We are thrilled to have Natalie join us,” David Parsons declares, “a former member of the company with years of experience in all aspects of our business, she is a great addition to the team.”
