Bio of Anna Achia,
Anna’s Go-Go Academy
Anna is the founder of Australia’s premier Go-Go dancing school, Anna’s Go-Go Academy. Anna’s Go-Go classes have been running weekly since 2006 and are ever expanding! She now runs three classes a week, plus special classes for corporate functions, hen’s nights and major events.
Her dreams of becoming a Solid Gold Dancer never fulfilled (due to the axing of the show in the mid eighties), Anna now dreams of amassing her own Go-Go Army. In the last 4 years Anna has taught go-go dancing at her classes and special events to over 3000 people.
Anna’s recent engagements include Spicks and Specks (ABC TV), The Insiders (ABC TV), the Falls Festival 2008 (Tasmania), co-hosting So You Drink? You Can Dance! for both the Comedy and Fringe festivals in 2008/09 (including winning the Comedy at Trades Comrade award for Best Choreography), choreography for the Die Roten Punkte music video ‘Rock Bang’, and even choreographing two wedding dances!
Anna has also appeared on ABC TV, in The Age and the Australian newspapers and Melbourne’s ABC, Triple J, RRR, and PBS radio stations.
My experience of this Go-Go dance class is that it’s like being invited to a high energy party, at which you’ll be taken care of by the hostess with the mostest! Anna expresses a desire to “amass a go-go army” and by the end of the class I believed she could!”- Lola Macmillan, Melbourne Stage Online
"It's like going to church with a brilliant teacher each week. The classes are so inspiring. It makes you want to get out there and practise every night...you get a real endorphin high and it's fun and you laugh and you're hanging out with your friends."
- Maryanne Bridges, The Age Newspaper
“The winning combination of exercise (enough to break into a sweat), beer and the lively presence of the noughties very own go-go queen, Anna Go-go, is enough to make me want to etch this evening permanently into my calendar.”
- Jayne D’Arcy, The Age M Magazine
“In a welcome break from the regular pundits, ABC1's Insiders unveiled go-go dancers as the go-to people for opinion on the 2020 Summit. Anna Achia, of Anna's Go-Go Academy in Melbourne, said celebrities at the summit killed the perception it was just a boring talkfest with "politicians sitting around, eating cheese and touching their frontbums".”
- James Jeffrey, The Australian
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