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www.MOSTmag.com || MOST FITNESS || 27Prima ballerina turned actor and producer, Natalie Burn explains to MOST Fitness that as her first love and first life, dance is at the core of who she is and informs everything in her life. For Natalie, that is a life full of a remarkable list of accomplishments, aided by the dedication and focus that dance instilled in her from a young age. Born in Kiev to a famous ballerina mother, Natalie took up performing and was accepted to the Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow, one of the top schools in the world at eleven years old, where she studied and toured as a prima ballerina for the next several years. Next stop was London where she completed her classical ballet education at The Royal Ballet School, where she also learned choreography and trained in a more contemporary style of ballet at Rambert Ballet and Contemporary Dance Company.ot content to just be the dancer, Natalie started creating choreography in her sleep, working with acts like Nelly, Paula Abdul, Mario, The Jackson Five and Craig David. She also choreographed top fashion events for Roberto Cavalli, big music festivals all around the world, a full ballet for a special event in UNESCO, Paris, and %u201cStella,%u201d which was presented in Kremlin Palace Hall in Moscow. With her eyes on becoming an actor, Natalie moved to the U.S. and was admitted into The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and later The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and The Actor%u2019s Studio in West Hollywood. It didn%u2019t take long for the multi-talented, multi-lingual star to start amassing credits and producing her own projects through her company 7Heaven Productions. Being fully trained in kickboxing, Jiu Jitsu, wire work, and knife, gun, and sword fighting never hurt either! Graceful and strong are two surefire traits to win Natalie that role as the lead dancer in a film, and MOST Fitness looks forward to watching her soar across the big screen very soon!Healthy Lifestyle Rule: My healthy lifestyle rule is to at least once a day do something that gets you out of breath, whether it%u2019s running, jumping jacks, swimming, or dancing.MFM: As a prima ballerina, what was your daily routine like? How does ballet compare to modern dance which you also studied? Which would you choose if you had to choose one?NB: A ballerina%u2019s routine is quite repetitive, and would be considered boring to most people. We would start off with ballet work next to the bar, center work, practice jumps, and then point shoes. When finished with that, we%u2019d go into pas de deux, and after all of that we would go into rehearsing for a show. Photo: ian fisherBy Darcy Tharp