Anna Cerveny is the founder and director of Cleveland Dance Project and the artistic director of CDP Company. She began her dance training under Joanne Morscher at the Royal School of Ballet at the age of 7. She received her BS in Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University and her Doctor of Physical Therapy from Columbia University. During her 7 years of school, she spent much of her time dancing, choreographing, and directing her university's respective dance organizations and taking dance classes at Pittsburgh Ballet Theater under Robert Vickrey and Broadway Dance Center under Michelle Barber and Sheryl Murakami. After graduating in 2013, Anna spent a year traveling internationally as the physical therapist for the Tony-winning Broadway play, "WarHorse", and taking dance classes around the world. Throughout her many years dancing, Anna has had the privilege of training under teachers such as Dee Hillier, Raymond Ejiofor, Ana Lobe, Kevin Martin, and Yoko Ichino, attending summer intensive programs at BalletMet and Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts. Anna has danced professionally with companies including NEOS, EPIC Motion, Cleveland's Dancing With The Stars, and Asylum Entertainment. She has choreographed a few local musicals, assisted with dance for Parkinson's classes, and even worked on a choreography project with the US Department of Health! Currently, when not filling her life with CDP, she works at University Hospitals as a senior physical therapist and the founder of UH's dance rehabilitation program.
Anna Cerveny
Director
Cleveland Dance Project