| Starting in New York, Ginnia began her career by training in competitive
gymnastics at the Hudson Valley Gymnastics Center and dance at Ballet Arts Dance Studio. She has spent over eighteen years studying ballet, modern, hip hop and jazz and performed with the Dutchess Ballet Company.
Ginnia has acquired an international background in dance by spending a month in London, researching dance and theater as cultural metaphors and six months in Seville, Spain studying flamenco and Sevillanas. She then went on to spend a month in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil studying the history and performance of Brazilian dance through capoeira, and four years learning the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning.
In addition, Ginnia has taught dance at several different studios and was an instructor on the National Cheerleaders’ Association staff for four years. After winning Goucher Freshman Dance Award in 2003, she ultimately graduated from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD in 2006. Since earning her Bachelors degree in Dance and International Relations with a Spanish minor, she has since gone on to become the Resource Coordinator of LVCDC/Rosario Castellanos Community School in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago. Ginnia looks forward to training with Corpo and to using her experience to help the next generation.
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