ANA SANCHEZ

I started dancing when I was 4 years old and started off with ballet in France where I learned the French Opera technique. I spent 4 years learning ballet in France until my family and I moved to the United States. Here I studied many different styles of dance such as Ballet, Modern, Tap, Jazz, Contemporary through Pointe Academy Dance Center.

Throughout High School, I was part of Notre Dame Preparatory’s Varsity Dance Team. In this team I learned Pom and Hip Hop. We participated in many competitions and events, and I was captain of the team for its 2018-2019 season.

Dance has always been an important part of myself, and I knew I could never part from it. I recently graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Dance and a degree in Actuarial Mathematics. Throughout my dance college career, I was able to develop my ballet technique and also learn many new dance styles and skills.

I was part of To Sangana (Wayne State’s African Dance Company) for 3 years in which I learned Congolese African Dance and had the opportunity to attend the International Association of Blacks in Dance Conference in Toronto. There I learned Ballet, Modern, Hip Hop from incredible artists all around the United States.

Over the summer in 2022, I interned with American Dance Festival in Durham, NC. There I worked as a Performances and Special Projects intern, where I worked with many incredible artists such as Kimberly Bartosik, Shen Wei, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Kamya Kapadia, Taryn Griggs, Chris Yon, and many more artists. I was able to learn and understand more about the Modern/Contemporary dance field through this internship and understood more about dance administration in professional dance companies and organizations.

In the future I hope to be able to get my MBA in Dance with a concentration in combining dance concepts and math concepts. I love contemporary ballet and I hope to be able to create some works with the students and share my love and knowledge of dance with them. I’m very excited and honored to be a teacher at Elite Dance Lab, looking forward to an amazing season!!