Ana Maletić was Croatian dancer, choreographer, and pedagogue. She was a student of Maga Magazinović and Rudolf von Laban. From 1932 to 1941, she ran a dance school in Zagreb, which she reopened in 1945. In 1947, she founded the Zagreb Dance Stage group. From 1954 to 1960, she served as the director and pedagogue of the newly founded School of Rhythm and Dance (since 1999, the Ana Maletić School of Contemporary Dance). In 1962, she established the Studio for Contemporary Dance with her daughter Vera.
She choreographed works set to music by local composers, incorporating folk dance themes. Her main choreographies include Kameni svatovi (B. Papandopulo, 1934), Petrica Kerempuh (Josip Kazić, 1940), Istrian Ballad (D. Savin, 1947), and Šiptarska suite (E. Cossetto, 1952), among others.
She contributed to many professional magazines, and her books Pokret i ples (1983), Knjiga o plesu (1986), and Povijest plesa starih civilizacija (I–II, 2002–03) were published. In 1982, she received the Vladimir Nazor Lifetime Achievement Award.
