Natacha Nattova

Natacha Nattova (born Nathalie Schmit; August 8, 1905 – March 7, 1988) was a Russian-born American adagio dancer, who was a star of the vaudeville circuit in the 1920s and 1930s.

In 1923, she worked as a featured dancer in the revue Paris Sans Voiles, a showcase for the Dolly Sisters at Café des Ambassadeurs, and later that year danced in another show, Impressions-Musicale at the Gaumont-Palace.

After her recovery, Myrio decided to leave, Nattova got into a fight with her understudy, and she was dropped from the roster of the Jones and Green theatrical company.

[1] While recuperating, Nattova devised a new act in which the set appeared to deliver a series of male dancers through an automated assembly line.

[3] From 1931 Nattova worked as a solo adagio act, introducing her "Dance of the Wind", in which "she used an enormous jardinière sprouting large stylized flowers with each blossom a firm metal platform upon which to leap with breath-taking abandon.

After a tour of Europe, she returned to New York in 1934 with an act that also included a dance on the theme of "what would happen if a demon inventor created a radio ray that would control the thoughts of humans."

Her final performances seem to have been in 1935 at the Radio City Music Hall, as part of an adagio trio, and with a troupe of male dancers, including Daks.

Nattova and Rodion, 1928