Vanina has been teaching for over 10 years. She teaches Creative Movement, Ballet, Tap and Jazz.

Vanina has been dancing at StudioE since the age of three. It was here that she received training in Ballet, Tap and Jazz. She went to High School for Dance at Benjamin N. Cardozo and then college at Adelphi University, where she received her B.F.A. in Dance with a minor in French. There, she received training in classical ballet (RAD and Cecchetti) and in Modern (Horton, Paul Taylor, Graham and Limon).