Alexa Sanniola has been a dance educator for over a decade, advocating for “smart” dance training, with special focus on anatomy and the mind-body connection. She graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts 2014 with her B.F.A. in Dance having received the University Dance Work Scholarship and Dance Express Choreography Award. Alexa is currently a NASM Certified Personal Trainer with Corrective Exercise and Performance Enhancement Specialties and is certified in T Spheres Techniques, Relative Motion, Progressing Ballet Technique, & Progressing Contemporary Technique. Her students have gone on to perform in the National Tour of Matilda, to attend Boston Conservatory, University of the Arts,Mason Gross School of the Arts, Alvin Ailey’s Pre-Professional Program on merit scholarship,and more! Alexa has worked with choreographers including Larry Keigwin, Brian Brooks, Doug Elkins, Ginger Thatcher, & Stefanie Battan Bland and performed in the Princeton Dance Festival& at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. As a member of Zella Dance Company, Alexa performed across the United States and she toured internationally with the production Uma Saudação à Whitney Houston. In 2017 Alexa founded Lambarri Dance Arts, in memory of her grandmother Nilda Lambarri who passed from Dementia, to provide a space for young dancers to grow as artists while developing their technique incorporating functional methods to train in “smart” and more efficient ways.