Corinna is a licensed creative arts therapist in NYS, a dance/movement therapist, arts-based researcher, substance abuse counselor, published author, educator, choreographer, and performer.

She has been choreographing and dancing in NYC since 1996 in such venues as PS 122, Here, The Knitting Factory, MTV Oddville, and art galleries throughout NYC. Her solo company Dean Street FOO Dance has performed at the San Francisco Butoh Festival, Cool NY Dance Festival,The International Dance Festival, Sweat Outdoors, and DTW’s Bessie Schonberg theatre. She performed and choreographerd for 13 years at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden annual Sakura Matsuri. Recent solo wark has been presented upstate NY in Conklin Hall and Rosekill Performance Art Farm. In addition to her own work she has danced with Christine Coleman’s Sticky Mango Movement, Chris Ferris & Dancers, Fred Hatt, Martha Williams, Celeste Hasting’s Butoh Rockettes & Noemie Lafrance, Mary Lee Hardenburg, Passed Dance, and Andrea Issac’s Moving Images. She also had the privilege of touring Japan with Harupin Ha and Kitaro in 1996.

Corinna’s work as a dance/movement therapist, researcher and educator are fundamentally interlinked with her love of the artistic process and use of choreography as a means of connecting and communicating. Corinna has been working as a dance/movement therapist for over 30 years with individuals and groups in community, hospital and private settings to help them heal. As a choreographer she seeks to stimulate audiences emotionally and aesthetically to help them connect with nature, to feel and see the world and themselves in new ways.