Natalie Walker
Owner/Director/Recreational & competition choreographer
Natalie established NDN studio in 1996. In the summer of 1996, Natalie was asked to teach a few students dance lessons. She held an open house and the story goes from there. Natalie began training at the age of 4 with Candy Shriver. She learned early on that she loved dance. Her primary training was with The Performing Arts School of Dance with Mandy Smith. In high school, Natalie was a member of the Clarksville High School Dance Team and is an alumni of the first Austin Peay State University Dance Team. Upon graduation Natalie received a degree in Health and Human Performance with a minor in Wellness Promotion.
Natalie’s highlights include being chosen at the age of 10 to dance in the “Fall staff” opera. She has also judged and choreographed many middle and high school dance teams, cheerleading routines, spring shows, drama department productions and half-time football band routines as well as choreographing for the Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department. Natalie choreographed for the Clarksville Academy Spring Production Dinner Show for years. Natalie was chosen to choreograph the commercial “We Do Digital” by Camera World.
Mrs. Natalie was chosen from the Dance Makers Incorporated Staff on November 30th, 2008 for the “MARJORIE PERRY SPIRIT AWARD” for her love, dedication, and enthusiasm to her dance students and studio.” Natalie has been recognized numerous times for having won best choreography, most entertaining, backstage spirit awards, highest scoring routine and Best of the Best routines. She has also won trips, special judges awards along with cash prizes and scholarships for her dancers.
Natalie has traveled to New York, Chicago, Florida, South Carolina, California (just to name a few), to train under the world’s best choreographers such as Travis Wall, Barry Youngblood, Marcus Alford, Frank Hatchett, The late Steven Boyd and Janice Berigner. She is always keeping her eyes open and her mind free to learn the “hottest” and “newest” dance moves of today.
NDN students are national title holders as well as both regional,national and local title winners. NDN dancers have gone on to dance on their college dance teams, NFL teams, Philadelphia Ballet Company, Cruise Lines, Sea World & casted in film productions. The studio has won Clarksville’s Best Dance Studio numerous times along with the Reader’s Choice Award, Clarksville Award Program, and the Main Street Award for best gymnastics/martial arts/ and dance studio in Montgomery County.
Although Natalie has been blessed with a great dance career, her biggest accomplishment is being married to her best friend, Ben for 24 years and being the mommy of three wonderful children. She has a 21 year old daughter, Kender, a 19 year old son, Camden, and a 15 year old daughter, Kentley.
Natalie feels very blessed by God to have a job that she adores and to be able to share her God given talent with all the children of today. She is celebrating 30 years of owning & operating Natalie’s Dance Network.
Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength”
JAYONNA PURCELL
Recreational & competition choreographer
Jayonna grew up dancing in her hometown of Clarksville, TN. For 14 years she danced at Natalie’s Dance Network studying ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, pointe, hip hop, and musical theater. After graduating high school, she attended Theater Arts Preparatory School (TAPS) in Las Vegas, NV. During the 6 month intensive, she trained with over 70 different instructors and choreographers in all genres of dance, singing, and acting. Through TAPS, she received many opportunities, including being a featured showgirl in the movie “ShowDogs”. Following that, she performed in the summer show IllumiNight at SeaWorld in San Diego, CA, choreographed by Bonnie Story. She spent 4 months back in Las Vegas training specifically in tap with tap master Tony Coppola. She considers tap to be one of her specialties, including lyrical and musical theater.
This will be her 24th season with NDN! Jayonna currently works on staff at LifePoint Church with the kid’s ministry team. She is blessed to spend her life doing two of her favorite things: Teaching kid’s how to dance, and teaching kids about Jesus!
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13
CHANICE LEWIS
Recreational & competition choreographer
Chanice is from Antioch, TN. She began her dancing years at Cathy’s Dance Studio in Nashville, TN at the age of 3. At the age of 15, she enrolled in the Nashville School of the Arts. This allowed Chanice to grow not only as a dancer but as a choreographer as well. She has a lyrical vision like no other! You can feel her love and story telling as you watch Chanice’s pieces.
Chanice moved to Clarksville in 2014 hoping to continue her passion of dance and choreography. This will be Chanice’s eleventh year with Natalie’s Dance Network.
KEMMIAN BEARD
Competition choreographer
Kemmian, a native of Jackson, TN, started studying dance at the age of 12. While in high school Kemmian booked his first gig with Wade Robson, a choreographer that showed Beard that dancing was more about movement than technique. While attending college at Middle Tennessee State University, he joined the Middle Tennessee Performing Arts Company. He later became an award winning choreographer for the company, winning the Twyla Tharp award for best choreography in 2004, 2005, and 2006. He founded his own company in 2005 that later became know as Southern Movement Dance Company. Since, he has choreographed and danced for some of today’s top artist in the industry, such as P.Diddy, Tamia, Trey Songz, Nappytabs, and Mia Michaels. In 2009, he was featured on the hit T.V. show for MTV, Randy Jackson’s “America’s Best Dance Crew”, where he choreographed and danced with selected members of his dance company. This will be Mr. Kemmian’s 11th year with Natalie’s Dance Network.
CIERRA CARTER
Recreational choreographer & technical director
Cierra is entering her 7th year of teaching at Rossview High School. At RHS, she is a chemistry teacher and the head coach of the RHS dance team. In May 2019, she graduated with her Masters of Teaching from Austin Peay State Univerisity. She has been living in the Clarksville area for the past 16 years. She is a former dancer from Natalie’s Dance Network since 2004 where she trained in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, hip hop, and musical theater. Cierra was on the award winning NDN competition company for 7 years where she received numerous awards performing her solos, duets, and groups. While Cierra was attending college at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, she danced for the Elite majorette team and was also crowned Miss Omega Psi in 2015. Cierra is excited to be back at her home roots and spread her love of dance to the next generation. This season will be Cierra’s 22nd year with NDN!
FAITH COLLINS
Recreational & competition choreographer
Faith is an alumni of Natalie’s Dance Network. She was born and raised in Clarksville, TN. This will be the first full year of instructing at NDN. She is so grateful to teaching at her favorite dance studio. She’s excited to share her 10 year passion with all the dancers this season. Faith has extensive training in competitive dance, coaching at Northwest High School dance team, Rossview High School dance team, D1 Austin Peay State University dance team. One of her favorite hobbies is to travel around the world and train with some of the best in the dance industry and join in with flash mob dances. She can not wiath to see all of the dancers work hard this season.
Fun fact about Faith … She is the reigning Miss Austin Peay State University.
“Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.”” Matthew 16:24-25
LILLY TRAYLOR
Recreational choreographer
Lilly was born and raised in Clarksville. She is a junior at Clarksville High School where she is on the CHS dance team. Lilly travels to Murfressboro, TN to receive her competitive dance training. She is on her 15th year of training at Spotlite. Her favorite genre of dance is jazz or contemporary. Lilly has traveled to Las Vegas, New Orleans and California where she has won many national titles and scholarships. One day Lilly hopes to travel to her dream location of Brazil. She is so excited to become apart of the NDN family and share her passion that she learns with the dancers in her class.
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted ” Psalm 34:18
ISYSS COLEMAN
Recreational & competition choreographer
Isyss was born in Columbus, Georgia and raised in Clarksville, Tennessee. She started dancing at the age of 3 and has been trained in various styles, including ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, contemporary/modern, tumbling, and pom with hip hop and musical theater being her favorite. Isyss also had the amazing opportunity to be a member of the 2024-2025 Tennessee Titans Cheerleadering squad. She believes in making dance fun and empowering for all ages. Her goal is to instill confidence and strong technique in her students whether they’re dancing for fun or preparing for the competition stage. This will be her first season with NDN, and she is thrilled to be sharing her passion of dance with young dancers of today.
A fun fact about Isyss is she serves at Mosaic Church in Clarksville TN as a technical director. She loves Jesus and her favorite Bible verse is Luke 1:45 “Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fufull his promises to her.”