Anna Heinel

Anna Friedrike Heinel (4 October 1753 – 17 March 1808) was a German ballerina who trained in Stuttgart.

[1] She enjoyed a highly successful career both in Paris and London.

Born in Bayreuth, Heinel studied under Jean-Georges Noverre in Stuttgart where she made her début in 1767.

She therefore left Paris for London where she danced for a time at the King's Theatre with Noverre.

There she danced in Orphée et Euridice (1774), Appelle et Campagne (1776), Alceste (1776), Armide (1777), Les Horaces (1777), La Fête de Village (1778), Iphigénie en Tauride (1779), Echo et Narcisse (1779), Atys (1780) and La Fête de Mirza (1781).