Anna Hirko

Anna Hirko is a native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania and began her classical ballet training at Dance Elite under Maxim Ponomarenko (Kiev State Ballet School, Ukraine) and Nadia Pavlenka (Vaganova Ballet Academy, Russia). She spent summers training at Ballet Magnificat! and the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Moscow. She has danced as a trainee with Joffrey Ballet School, NYC and spent 5 years performing with Paradosi Ballet Company before pursuing a career as a freelance dancer in the greater Seattle area. She performed with Ballet Bellevue, Katy Hagelin Dance Project, the Collective under the direction of Megan Becker and participated in the Seattle International Dance Festival 2018. Most recently Anna has been dancing with Dance Theatre Seattle under the direction of Joshua Grant as well as Bennyroyce Dance under the direction of Bennyroyce Royon. In 2021 and 2022 Anna had the opportunity to perform and create for ‘Reconstruct Exhibition’ a choreographic showcase founded by Sarah Burney in Los Angeles and has been a part of Reconstruct Initiative master faculty ever since. In addition Anna has had the opportunity to travel and perform all over the world using dance as a way to communicate through language barriers. She has recently discovered a love for choreographing and is driven to bring awareness to difficult issues such as human trafficking, suicide and homelessness through the art of dance. She currently has alumni studying at The Juilliard School, dancing professionally at SeaWorld, and competing at Prix De Lausanne. She has enjoyed her last ten years in Seattle with her husband and son but is so excited about teaching the next generation of dancers in Southern California.