Meet the principal
About Miss Natalie Parnell
Miss Natalie Parnell is the Principal & Director of West London Dance Academy. She is a Fellow of both the International Dance Teachers Association (IDTA) and the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance (ISTD), also holding the Diploma in Dance Education (DDE).
She gained her teaching qualifications in Ballet, Tap, and Contemporary Modern Jazz after graduating from dance college at just 19 years old. Following her training, she enjoyed a successful professional performance career, working with choreographers and companies including Wayne Sleep and the late Roy Castle, while teaching at Pineapple Studios in London.
At 22, Miss Natalie opened her own dance school in Kent, training students across England and Europe to teacher status, with a 95% distinction rate in Ballet, Tap, and Modern Jazz examinations. After selling her school, she achieved her Fellowships qualifications in Ballet , Modern Jazz, Tap and Disco Freestyle in IDTA and ISTD with Distinctions and qualified as an Adjudicator for the British Dance Council, adjudicating alongside the late Len Goodman.
In 2010, she taught with a Hungarian Ballet Company, training performers and teachers in IDTA Ballet Associate, before joining West London Dance Academy in 2011. She became Principal in 2016 and opened her own fully equipped dance studio in 2020, creating a professional environment for high-quality training.
Miss Natalie has also choreographed and trained dancers for major productions, rehearsals, and charity events, collaborating with artists, pop bands, and television productions including S Club 7, ITV’s Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Take Away, Loose Women, and BBC Strictly Come Dancing.
After teaching all ages , for over 30 years, she developed Teacher Training Courses that are individually tailored to each dancer — whether via scholarship, intensive training, private tuition, in-person, or online. Our Train To Teach Dance courses are designed for all ages, from young dancers to adults, because every dancer’s journey is different.
