Anneli started dancing in Germany where she was born. She trained at the Rambert School of Ballet and London Contemporary Dance School. Anneli worked with Mark Baldwin, then a guest choreographer at Rambert, for his piece Time.  After she graduated in 2004 she danced for Tanztheater Freiburg-Heidelberg, in artistic director Irina Pauls’ Carmina Burana. Anneli joined Richard Alston Dance Company in August 2005. In 2006 Anneli worked for the Yorke Dance-Project.