Anna grew up in Birmingham, Alabama where she began dancing at four years old. She received most of her technical training from Briarwood Ballet under the teaching of instructors including Barbra Barker, Kenneth Tolle, and Brittany Bischoff. She spent her summers attending classes and intensives at Briarwood Ballet and learning many variations under the instruction of Jim Eaton and others. During her senior year of high school, Anna was invited to join Ballet Exaltation, Briarwood Ballet’s pre-professional touring company. During her time as a member with Ballet Exaltation, she had many performing opportunities including Project Dance in Kansas City. She also organized and taught ballet classes for Agape Academy Homeschool. Anna moved to Syracuse, New York in August of 2014 to join Light of the World Ballet’s trainee program. As a trainee she traveled with the Company to Myanmar (Burma) and Peru and was promoted to Apprentice in 2017. Anna was on the LWB teaching staff and served as a guest teacher for River City Dance in Lewiston, Idaho. In 2018, Anna returned to Birmingham, AL where she focused on teaching at Dawson Ballet and Briarwood Ballet. Anna was invited to join Suzhou Arts Collective in the summer of 2019. She taught and performed as staff of the Arts Collective until January of 2020. In 2020 Anna returned to Alabama and began teaching for Eastern Shore Dance Academy in Daphne and Classical Ballet of Mobile. Anna performed the role of Sugar Plum Fairy in CBM’s nutcracker in 2021. Soon after marrying her husband, Craig, in the spring of 2024 Anna relocated to Alexandria, VA and joyfully accepted a teaching position at Virginia Ballet Company where looks forward to sharing her love for the art of ballet and dance with the next generation of young dancers!