The Ailey School Faculty - Ballet
Ailey Extension Instructor - Ballet
Anna Lederfeind
Born in Belgium, Anna Lederfeind began her ballet training at a very young age at the Conservatoire de la Danse directed by Maurice Béjart, and studied with Jacques Saussin, and Dolores Laga. She attended The Royal Ballet School in London where she studied Cecchetti, the School of Academic Russian Ballet in Hamburg where she studied Vaganova and Pushkin and, in New York, she trained with Nenette Charisse and Lee Theodore of the American Dance Machine.
Anna was a principal dancer for Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, and at Royal Theaters in Aachen, Lubeck and Hamburg, Germany. She is the founder of CDAB (Center for Dance and Body).
Anna is an ABT (American Ballet Theatre) Certified Teacher, having successfully completed the ABT Teacher Training Intensives in Primary through Level 7 and Partnering. She became an ABT Affiliate Teacher in 2010. She is also certified in Levels 1–5 with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy Teacher Program. Anna has served as a guest ballet instructor at The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, American Youth Dance Theater in NYC, Ballet at Coupe Theater Studio in Nanuet, NY, and at NYC’s Professional Performing Arts School. She currently teaches ballet at The Ailey School and Ailey Extension.
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