About Anna

Anna’s profile – stylish performer with creative flair.

Anna Chong, the founder and artistic director of Anna Performance Dance Company is one of Singapore leading Middle Eastern Dance performer. Anna’s performance is distinctive in being refreshing, artistic and entertaining. She has been featured both on The Straits Times and national TV. She  has many years of dance performance experience in the various dance art forms and has dance training since age 7 in ballet, Chinese cultural dance, jazz, modern dance and Middle Eastern dance. Anna’s performance and classes reflect her love for Middle Eastern dance and music. Her passion and enthusiasm are brought to each performance and class. Anna attributes her compelling performance skills to her lifetime love of dance, extensive study and spiritual evolution. Anna has great passion to bring this beautiful art form to the world and has gone to Egypt, Turkey, United Kingdom, France and Australia for intensive learning and study tours. Anna constantly upgrades herself and has over the years studied with many world acclaimed Egyptian Master and top belly dance performers from Egypt, USA, Australia, UK, France, Turkey and Germany. Some of her master teachers include Dr Mo Geddawi, Raqia Hasssan, Dina (current world top performer), Yousry Sharif, Mahmoud Reda, Naima Hassan, Serena Ramzy and Keti Sharif.

She is an active member in the Singapore cultural and Middle Eastern dance scene with many performances and teaching engagements. She has done performances in concerts, wedding parties, corporate functions, Singapore Tourist center, drama, hafla (Arabian D&D), NTU and the Middle Eastern dance festivals, Dinner and Dance at Ritz Carlton, Hyatt Hotel, M-Hotel etc.

Anna Dance Specialties –  creative fusion and Turkish Karsilama 

Anna’s repertoire includes performing and choreographing the following dance specialties: 

-         Creative fusion

-         Single veil and double veil

-         Standard Oriental dance

-         Drum solo

-         Raks al-Assaya (Egyptian cane dance)

-         Turkish Karsilama

-         Wings 

Other than dance, Anna has been a keen promoter of the spiritual movement in Singapore. She is a qualified Master in Reiki, Rebirthing and several meditation methods. She believes in the integration of dance and spiritual evolution to bring forth joy, happiness and good health to the world.   

Prior to becoming a full time dance performer and instructor, Anna worked as a qualified full time teacher in Junior College at pre-university level with the Ministry of Education (MOE) Singapore. She has also worked in the staff training branch in the head quarter of MOE. She has a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the National University of Singapore.