04/03/2018
The March Center Stage Spotlight recognizes Natiya Reggans
Natiya Reggans began her dance training at the age of three, at
Shirley’s Dance Studio and later Xtreme Dance Force in Naperville,Illinois. At these studios she has trained in the styles of ballet,tap, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, pointe, and hip hop. She joined the competitive dance team at age nine until the end of her high school career. She graduated from Joliet Catholic Academy’s High School, where she was on the Varsity Dance team for four years and captain her last.
Natiya continued her dance education at Grand Valley State
University, where she received her degrees in Dance and Communication, with a Business minor. While being at Grand Valley, Natiya had the opportunity to work with numerous guest artist. Natiya was president of Move to the Beat dance organization, as well as a member of the Grand Valley Laker Dance Team.
Natiya currently resides in Evanston, Illinois where she has
recently received a Master's of Science In Leadership for the Creative Enterprises at Northwestern University. Since her relocation to Illinois, She has danced in the professional Hip Hop companies CODA and The Puzzle League, as well as teaching creative movement to children, teaching at multiple dance studio's, free-lace,and commercial work related to the dance/entertainment industry.
Currently, Natiya Reggans is a second year student attending Columbia College, Chicago on a full scholarship and assistantship studying Dance Movement Therapy and Counseling. Currently she is interning at Timberline Knolls Residential treatment facility in Lemont, Illnois, as a Dance/Movement Therapy intern. Natiya plans to bridge the gap between her creative and analytical passions, as she uses movement as a form of healing to serve others. Upon graduation, she hopes after graduation are to find a residential facility where she can work as a therapist.
