ANNA LONG is a performer, choreographer, and certified Gaga teacher based in the United States. Raised in Massachusetts, Anna began her dance training with New England Dance Academy of Attleboro. She earned her degree in dance and biology at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.  In 2011, Anna was accepted to the pilot Gaga Teachers Training program in Tel Aviv, and trained under Ohad Naharin, Gaga faculty, and members of Batsheva Dance Company.  

Anna became a certified Gaga teacher in 2012. Since then, she served as a guest teacher for CSU Long Beach, Columbia College, Ate 9, TU Dance, Lee Saar,  James Sewell Ballet, and Punch Drunk Theatre’s Sleep No More. She has also hosted Gaga/choreography workshops in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Paris, Denver, Seattle, and Los Angeles. She served on faculty as a Gaga instructor for Hubbard Street Dance Company’s Pre-professional program and teaches Gaga  around the world. 

 Anna has created works independently at Links Hall in Chicago  as well as on Visceral Dance Chicago, the Cambrians, Dance Works Chicago, Elements Contemporary Ballet, Loyola Marymount College, Dance in the Parks Chicago, Extensions Dance Company, and James Graham Dance Theater in San Francisco. Anna has been chosen as a featured artist for Dixon Place’s Under Exposed series in New York City and presented work in the inaugural Netherlands Choreography Competition in Spring 2017. Most recently, Anna was selected to present work at the VHS International Solo Dance Theater Festival in Stuttgart, Germany and at the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival

Outside of her artistic endeavors, Anna is a former advocate for rare disease research, an avid learner of languages, and film enthusiast.