ANNA CZAJUN

Anna Czajun received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Northeastern Illinois University. Trained as a pianist, yet choosing dance as a profession, Ms. Czajun has performed with numerous companies in her native Chicago, notably the Chicago Moving Company, the Joel Hall Dancers, the Arve Connection, and the Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble. In addition to her career as a performer, Ms. Czajun received an Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Award for choreography. She has created numerous dance works for many Chicago companies and independent artists. While with the Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble, she was their Educational Resource Director, conducting dance workshops and creating lecture-demonstration programs nationwide for primary, secondary, and university students. A well-known instructor, whose training in modern dance and ballet has been extensive in Chicago and New York, Ms. Czajun has been on the dance faculties of the Chicago Dance Center, the New School for the Performing Arts, the Lou Conte Dance Studio, Barat College, and the Gus Giordano Dance Center.
Presently, she is teaching Pilates at Body Evolve Studio in Highland Park, she is Ballet Mistress and Production Assistant for Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theatre, ballet mistress for InAside Chicago Dance, and, she is celebrating her 26th year of teaching ballet at The Latin School of Chicago.