Anna Grabka

Anna Grabka (born 1961) is a Polish dancer, ballet teacher and choreographer.

She began to dance at the age 6 in her native town of Szczecin. At the age of 10 she began her professional Studies at the National Ballet School in Warsaw. At the age 11 she perform at the National Theatre (Teatr Wielki) in Warsaw the leading part of the small Klara in "The Nutcracker" (chor. Gennadij Ledyakh).Between 1980-1985 she was member of the Ballet Company of the National Theatre in Warsaw as a Principal Soloist. In 1982 she won a silver medal in the Polish Ballet Competition.

At the same time, (1980-1984) she completed a Course of Study in Ballet Pedagogics at the Music Academy in Warsaw. In 2002 she finished the Master's Work on the theme "Pregnancy and Dance". Since 2002 she has worked at the F. Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw.

In 1985 she joined "The Hamburg Ballet" in Germany, where she flourished as a Principal Soloist under the Artistic Direction of John Neumeier from 1987 until 2001 [http://www.hamburgballett.de/e/koegler1.htm] . She toured with the company, including appearances in New York [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E2DF1630F935A25754C0A96E958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FD%2FDancing] in 1998 [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1083/is_n10_v72/ai_21229835] . She danced Solos and Principal roles in ballets by Friderick Ashton, George Balanchine, Maurice Bejart, August Bournoville, Jean Coralli/Jules Perrot, John Cranko, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Kevin Haigen, Leonid Jacobson, Jiri Kilian, Serge Lifar, Jose Limon, Asaf Messerer, John Neumeier and Marius Petipa. In the 2001/02 season she danced as a guest Soloist with "The Hamburg Ballet" and worked as a Ballet Mistress.

In Hamburg she worked with a number of Ballet Masters including Boris Akimov, Truman Finney, Kavin Haigen, Irina Jacobson, Charles Mudry, Anatoli Nisnevich and Ilse Wiedmann.

Since 1997 she worked as a guest Ballet Mistress in a range of European ballet companies including Dance Company Thoss, Baviarien Ballet, English National Ballet, Northern Ballet Theatre, Royal Swedish Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, Het National and the Queensland Ballet in Brisbane.

Since 2003 she has worked as Ballet Mistress and Repetitor in the Royal Swedish Ballet.

In summer 2005 she took part in the Choreology Workshop by Prof. Roderyk Lange in Poznań, Poland.

External links

* [http://www.szpilman.net/index2.htm Anna Grabka Website]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E2DF1630F935A25754C0A96E958260&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FSubjects%2FD%2FDancing New York Times Review]
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1083/is_n10_v72/ai_21229835 Dance Magazine Review]