Anna Laudere was born in Sigulda, Latvia, and received her dance training at the Riga Ballet School and the School of the Hamburg Ballet. She joined the Hamburg Ballet in 2001 and was promoted to Soloist in 2008 and Principal in 2011.
She has performed numerous title roles and important solo parts in John Neumeier’s ballets. She created the roles of The Maiden Who Never Laughs in Parzival – Episodes and Echo, Calliope in Orpheus, The Mother in Christmas Oratorio I-VI, The Friend (Isadora Duncan) in Duse, the title role of Anna Karenina, A Widow in Dona Nobis Pacem as well as solos in Purgatorio, Um Mitternacht, Beethoven Project I, Beethoven Project II, Ghost Light and Epilogue. Her broad repertory also includes ballets by George Balanchine, Michel Fokine, John Cranko, Rudolf Nureyev, Jerome Robbins, Christopher Wheeldon, Cathy Marston, Justin Peck, William Forsythe and Demis Volpi.
She has performed in several ballet film adaptations and has made guest appearances worldwide.
She received the Dr Wilhelm Oberdörffer Prize in 2008, the Benois-Massine Prize in 2019 and the Latvian Excellence Award in Culture as well as the Order of the Three Stars – the highest civilian order of merit in Latvia.
