Training Natasha Gooden trained at Liverpool Community College, where she was awarded a National Diploma in Dance with distinctions in ballet, tap, contemporary, jazz, street dance and physical theatre. She went on to train at the Shockout Academy in Manchester where she specialised in ballet, hip hop, acting and singing. Theatre For the National Theatre: Bacchae Other theatre includes: Message in a Bottle and Some Like it Hip Hop for ZooNation; Into the Hoods Remixed in the West End and on tour; Blak Wythe Gray for Boy Blue Entertainment; and White Light Festival in New York As choreographer: The Scouse Jack and the Beanstalk and Bingo Star at Liverpool’s Royal Court TV The Lodge (season two) Music videos ‘Home Run’ for Misha B Other projects performing with Boadicea on Got to Dance; in the 2012 Opening Ceremony of the London Olympics; and with JLS and One Direction on The X Factor (Published September 2025) Source: National Theatre