Anna Dal Castello
Corps de ballet member of The Czech National BalletBiography
Born in Bolzano, Italy, Anna Dal Castello received her initial dance training in her native town at the Evento Danza school under the guidance of Barbara Ante. At the age of nine, she won the Bolzano è Danza international competition. She went on to study at the Tanz Akademie Zürich, with Steffi Scherzer and Oliver Matz, graduating in 2017.
While still a student, she performed at the Ballet Gala Ludwigsburg, Die Welt zu Gast in Munich and other shows. In 2016, she was granted a scholarship for talented young artists from the Migros-Kulturprozent Wettbewerb in Switzerland. In 2017, she attended a trainee programme at the European School of Ballet in Amsterdam.
In 2018, Anna joined the Czech National Ballet, where she has appeared in the productions Swan Lake, The Nutcracker – A Christmas Carol, The Sleeping Beauty, La Bayadère, Onegin and La Fille mal gardée, as well as in performances of contemporary and neoclassical ballets, including Kafka: The Trial, The Little Mermaid, Serenade and Le Sacre du printemps.