Ania is 24. She has been dancing since she was 6-year old girl. It all started with ballet classes, then modern jazz and other forms of dancing. She was studying in Ognisko Baletowe in Lublin, took part in many different workshops, appeared on many Polish scenes (for example: Poznań Biennale, Bytom modern dance workshops). She has been interested in modern dance, classic ballet, jazz...etc. and for 12 years were developing her skills as a dancer. And that helped her to adopt salsa steps very easily. Her first experience with salsa was in Berlin in the Havana Club. She was amazed by this very climatic and vivid dance and begun being interested not only in salsa but in the Cuban culture, music and history as well. Her first teachers were such salsa superstars like Frankie Martinez, Orville Small, Grizelle Ponce, Eddie Torres, Nancy Ortiz, Burju Hurtuk or Juan Matos and many more from Europe, like: Rafael Munoz - Mexico/Monachium, Mimo - Mexico/Monachium, Neeraj Maskara - India/Geneve). Trying to use their knowledge and talent, she manage to create her own style.  

Ania is the only Polish dancer being invited to international congresses and festivals to teach others and perform for international audiance. At the time she's cooworking with a salsa instuctor from India, Neeraj Maskara. They performed on many fetivals together:

- II International Salsa Fetival in Warsaw 11.2006

- UK Salsa Congress, 09.2006 

- Salsa Congress in Berlin, 09.2006 

- Salsa Festival in Wroclaw, Poland 07.2006 

- Croatian Salsa Festival, Rovnij, 06.2006 

- Salsa Congress in Brussels, 06.2006

- Salsa Congress in Bremen, 05.2006

- Fanta Salsafestival, Bulgaria, Sofia 05.2006 

- Salsa Fever Days in Duesseldorf, 05.2006
- Salsa Congress in Marsilia 04.2006 
- Salsa Festival in Prague, 04.2006
- Hannover Spring Salsa Weekend, 03.2005
- Bern Salsa Milo, Switzerland, 03.2006
- Zurich Salsa Congress, Switzerland, 02.2006
- Brit Salsa Fest, Great Britain, 02.2006
- First International Warsaw Salsa Festival, Poland, 11.2005
- Salsa Congress in Monachium, Germany, 11.2005
- Salsa Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, 10.2005
- Berlin Salsa Congress, Germany, 09.2005
- Chemnitz Festival de Baile y Musica, 09.2005
- Salsa Festival in Croatia, 08.2005
- Salsa Congress in Hamburg, 07.2005  

Her first workshops were held in Warsaw along with Marek Domański in September 2002 and in March 2003 they have formed SALSA LIBRE. She became famous Ladies' Styling instructor and for about 4 years now she's been teaching salseras-to-be across Europe: 

- Norymberga (October 2006)

- Muenster (October 2006)

- Wuppertal (September 2006)

- Berlin (May-September 2006)

- Regensburg (April 2006)

- Berlin (September 2005)
- Rovnij in Croatia (August 2005)
- Ulm in Germany (July 2005)
- Praga in Czech Republic (April 2005)
- Cracow (February 2005)
- Warsaw (regular classes every 3-4 months since 2003 )

- Szczecin (January 2005)
- Częstochowa (January 2005)
- Ulm in Germany (November 2004)
- Chemnitz in Germany (September 2004)
- Drezno in Germany (June 2004)
- Stuttgart in Germany (August 2003)
- Cracow (June 2003)
- Aarhus in Denmark (April 2003)
- Soenderborg in Denmark (February 2003)

Ania is also a leader of Salsa Libre formation. For a year now she is a choreographer and co-works with her dancers. First show was made in March 2004. Since that moment the group became famous across Poland and abroad. They have performed in places like Berlin, Hamburg, Wroclaw, Prague, Regensburg...   

Apart from shows Ania had with Salsa Libre, she performed in:

- Soenderborg, Denmark (Soenderborg Salsafestival, February 2003) with Henrik Normann,
- Niechór, Poland (Carnaval de Salsa, June 2003) with Marek Domański,
- Stuttgart, Germany (Weiblingen, July 2003) with a Cuban dancer Jorge Camaguey,
- Stuttgart, Germany (Bar Sur, August 2003) with Judith Benitez, the salsa queen in Germany,
- Amsterdam, Netherlands (VI European Salsa Festival, June 2003) with Luis Zegarra (NYC), Leader of Fuerza Latina formation
- Chemnitz, Germany (Latin-Chem - Festival de Baile y Música, September 2003) with Judith Benitez
- Dublin (Irish Salsa Congress, May 2004) with Eugen Leito from Amsterdam.

Since April 2006 Ania also works on projects with her students. During the 2nd International Warsaw Salsa Festival we could see the results of their hard work. Right now, Ania also leads a female choreography group Ladies Salsa Show.  
     

Ania is also co-workin with Polish Television, runs regular classes for TV employees, is one of the judges in Dolina Kreatywna contest, which supports young artists, and performs at tv programs like: Kawa i Herbata, Gala Sylwestrowa, Ale Jazda...

Ania is interested in differnet forms of movement, not only dance. For over a year now she's been practicing joga, jazz and ballet, hip hop, brodway jazz, samba, rumba. You can also see her at many dance events and theatre. Ania studies on the fifth year of Philology-Culture Studies of the Western Europe at the Warsaw University and runs Salsa Libre with Marek Domański. She is also interested in foreign languages, traveling, cinema and literature.

"From the first second I saw her dance salsa I knew that this girl was something special. When I later discovered that she had been dancing ballet for fourteen years, I remember thinking ... "of course"! ... For some reasons ballet is a perfect base for salsa dancing ... I guess for all dancing.
Anna Chagowska must be one of the most talented girls in the salsa scene in Europe right know."

Henrik Normann - Salsa Instructor from Denmark

"This past May (2001) while teaching some workshops in Warsaw, I met a young woman named Anna Chagowska. After dancing with her a handful of times, I became quickly impressed with her dancing. She told me she had not been dancing salsa for very long, and I sensed a very large potential in her to become a great salsera. She would need time to develop and refine her skills, but now that time has passed, I am very curious now to take another spin with her on the dance floor!"
Eric "El Cubanito" Freeman - Salsa Instructor from USA

The up-coming performances:

2007

- 25.02.07 Salsa Festival Switzerland, Zurych www.salsa-switzerland.ch 

- 5-8.04.07 3rd Annual Salsa India Festival, Mumbai www.salsaindiafestival.com

- 14.04 Bacardi Salsa Festival, Praga www.salsafestival.cz

- 28.04 London 5-Star Salsa Congress www.mambocity.co.uk/congress

- 26.05 Brussels Salsa Festival www.summersalsa.be