Biography
Job title: Lecturer
Courses taught: BA (Hons) Musical Theatre, MA Musical Theatre Company
Specialisms: Contemporary Dance, Ballet technique and Physical Theatre
Anna grew up in Barcelona where her dance training began at Institut del Teatre conservatoire. Alongside performance, her interest in communication expanded into academia obtaining a degree in journalism at Ramón Llull University. She moved to Leeds in 2013 and graduated from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance with a First Class Bachelors Degree with Honours.
As a movement facilitator, Anna teaches ballet and contemporary techniques as well as dance-theatre to a wide range of ages and abilities. She currently works as a lecturer at Leeds Conservatoire and delivers sessions for NSCD, Northern Ballet Academy and The Dance Studio Leeds amongst others. Between 2020-2023, Anna was one of four directors of ProDanceLeeds, an artist led project running classes for independent dance professionals in the city.
As a creator, she is particularly interested in collaborative and inter-disciplinary work, having devised projects with actors, musicians, filmmakers, composers and singers to name a few, and creating works in musical theatre, cabaret, opera and dance-theatre. Together with colleague and friend Charlotte Arnold, Anna is co-director and performer with Leeds based dance theatre company ACCA since its creation in 2020.
Also in collaboration with Charlotte Arnold, Anna founded and edited the online publication Artychoke Magazine between 2020 and 2023. Throughout its ten issues, Artychoke Magazine showcased the works of over 60 artists and artistic collectives from around the globe.
