please e-mail me if you are interested in group or private lessons for either dance or pilates after 01 february 2006 on my return to the netherlands
Anna is a dancer, choreographer and teacher currently based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Originally from Toronto, Canada, Anna started her training at the Toronto Dance Theatre Children’s Program, and then studied ballet as the George Brown School of Ballet till she returned to The School of the Toronto Dance Theatre’s Pre-professional Training Program to study Graham Technique.
She left Toronto in 1991 to train at the dance conservatory program at Purchase College, SUNY, and holds a B.F.A. in Dance Performance.
Since Purchase College, Anna returned to Toronto to start Savage Land Productions, and worked with choreographers Debbie Wilson, Learie McNicolls, and Betty Colon. She was invited to join Same Planet Different World Dance Theatre in Chicago and was a guest artist/choreographer, associate director then Artistic Director from 1998 till May 2003. In Chicago, she worked with choreographers Jason Ohlberg, Jan Erkert, Jeff Hancock, Ron DeJesus, Peter Scisioli, Atalee Judy & Breakbone Dance Co., and Ginger Farley.
While in Chicago, she was awarded an Artist’s Fellowship grant from the Illinois Arts Council and was invited to spearhead the Ruth Page Choreography Project in 2000. The following year, she toured to Brazil with fellow dancer/choreographer Peter Sciscioli, and performed in Sao Paulo, and Recife. She also organized workshops for Europe-based choreographers Marcelo Evelin and Ted Stoffer in Chicago. She certified in The Pilates Method at the Body Balance studio in December 1999, and in Gyrotonic® with Matt Aversa.
In 2004, Anna moved to the Netherlands to study intensively as a guest student at the New School for Dance Development (School voor Nieuwe Dans Ontwikkeling-SNDO).
She has presented her work at the Get Up, Stand Up choreographers’ competition and won the People’s Choice award for her solo, “Residue”. She presented “Residue” at the Limburg Arts Festival and at the 9th International Solo Festival in Stuttgart, Germany in March 2005. She has also performed at several informal showings, such as No Apology, I.D.E.A. and Open Stage Amsterdam. She has studied many different dance and movement techniques, including ballet, modern dance (including Graham, Cunningham, Limon, Klein and release technique). She likes to indulge in the occasional jazz or hip-hop class.
At present, she is interning with Magpie Music Dance Company in Amsterdam deepening her movement education exploring the realm of performance improvisation, creating her own work, and assisting in managing Pilates Studio Annamora.
Anna is a dancer, choreographer and teacher. She has been dancing since she was a child, training since she was ten years old in ballet and modern dance in Toronto, Canada. She went to college at the State University of New York, Purchase, where she received her B.F.A. in Dance Performance. While she was in university, she sustained a back injury and looked to different movement techniques to help heal her back. It was there that she was introduced to Pilates.
Since then she has studied many different dance and movement techniques, including ballet, classical modern dance (including Graham, Cunningham, Limon, Klein technique), and release technique.
In 1998, she moved to Chicago to dance with Same Planet Different World Dance Theatre for five years ultimately working her way up to company Artistic Director. In Chicago, she trained and certified in The Pilates Method at the Body Balance studio, and in Gyrotonic® with Matt Aversa.
She came to Amsterdam as a guest student at the New School for Dance Development (S.N.D.O.-School voor Nieuwe Dans Ontwikkeling) in 2004. She studied there for six months, varying and deepening her approach to movement and widening her vision of art, dance and choreography.
Since being in Amsterdam, she has been working with and teaching Pilates at Studio Annamora and is a regular or substitute instructor for Jelena Petrovic and at many Amsterdam gyms (such as Medico Vision, Club Sportive, Splash Renaissance, and Barry’s Fitness Center).
As a teacher she brings precision and humour to the Pilates work, as well as ideas of introducing a physicality that comes from anatomy, intuition, intelligence and practice, so that both novice and experienced students can benefit from an approach to discovering healthy movement patterns through The Pilates Method. Anna also has experience in working with individuals with diverse physical challenges, from basic injuries or pregnancy, to conditions such as osteoporosis or Fibromyalgia.