Meet the Founder

Natalie Wright

Founder / Artistic Director / Ballet Instructor

Natalie Wright was born in Miami Beach, Florida and began her dance training at the Martha Mahr School of Ballet. A member of the Miami Ballet's Junior and Senior Company she performed regularly throughout the city in various productions.

Natalie attended the official school for New York City Ballet, School of American Ballet, on full scholarship for five consecutive summers. At the age of 15 she received a full tuition scholarship to SAB's year round program, and accepted an invitation to train in the Advanced Division. She studied with Stanley Williams, Antonia Tumkovsky, Susan Pilarre, Suki Schorer, Richard Rapp, Violette Verdy, Kay Mazzo and Jock Sotto. 

James Ady

Ballet Instructor

James Ady began dancing when he was 15 in Clinton, Iowa, before attending the North Carolina School for the Arts his junior and senior years of high school. After graduating from NCSA, he trained at the San Francisco Ballet School before joining Pennsylvania Ballet, now Philadelphia Ballet. Ady danced numerous lead roles before leaving in 2002 to join American Ballet Theatre. While with ABT, he performed in Swan Lake, Le Corsaire, Romeo and Juliet, La Fille Mal Gardee, and toured nationally and internationally with the company. During his time with ABT, he worked with Lar Lubovitch, Natalia Makarova, Stanton Welch, James Kudelka, Georgina Parkinson and David Parsons. Ady returned to Pennsylvania Ballet in 2003 as a soloist and was promoted to principal dancer in 2005. Favorite leading roles include Romeo in John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet, Albrecht in Giselle, Prince Siegfried in Christopher Wheeldon’s Swan Lake, Colas in Sir Frederick Ashton’s La Fille Mal Gardee, the 3rd Sailor in Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free, and in numerous George Balanchine ballets including Agon, The Four Temperaments, Slaughter on 10th Avenue, Valse Fantaisie, Serenade, Ballo della Regina, Bugaku, and Concerto Barocco. After retiring in 2008, he graduated magna cum laude from Boise State University in 2012 with a degree in journalism. 

Sarah Lozoff

Ballet Instructor

Sarah Lozoff is a ballet teacher, Gyrotonic instructor, and intimacy director. After training at the Miami Conservatory (now Armour Dance Theatre) and New World School of the Arts, she performed soloist and principal roles with Ballet Rosario Suarez. Sarah has taught ballet for professional companies and schools for over twenty five years. She has been an invited guest at TU Dance, Larkin Dance School, Sarasota Contemporary Dance, Common Thread Contemporary, Armour Dance Theatre, Minnesota Dance Theatre, and RudduR Dance, and a faculty member at Gabriella Charter School, Everybody Dance, LA Ballroom Program, Marat Daukayev School of Ballet, and Ballet Conservatory West where she also served as Associate Artistic Director for the school’s full length productions of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker