Francesca Marinaro is a resident of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania and received her BA in Dance from DeSales University in 2008. She has worked with prominent artists such as Trinette Singleton, Sean Curran, Eddie Taketa, Lynne Mariani, Janet Peck, J.T. Jenkins, Kate Jewett of Shen Wei Dance Arts, and Nicole Wilcott. In 2008 she had the opportunity to study in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the Centro de Choreographico de Brazil. She has danced for Re-Cored Dance Company, Wilkes-barre, Pennsylvania, Annex Dance Company of Charleston, South Carolina & Angeline Wolfe of Bangor performing along the east coast. In 2011, Francesca established the FuSia Dance Center of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania offering dance education to students ages two to adult. It is also the home of FuSia Pre-Professional Dance Company, a non-profit performance based company for young aspiring dancers to gain the experience of a performer and become educated dance artists. In 2011, she became the co-artistic director of Drye/Marinaro Dance Company based out of NYC where she continues to share her love of choreography and work alongside incredibly talented artists and movers. 

Francesca is incredibly proud of the evolution and growth of the studio. From a single marley floor to an 11,00 square foot school for the arts. The school has created over 100 classes a week offering all genres of dance, theater and fine arts. The school has most recently established a strong partnership with the Central Pennsylvania Digital Learning Foundation, a K-12 Public Cyber School, in which FUSIA provides art, movement, music and theater classes to students!

Francesca is so proud of the Fusia faculty, whom many are Fusia alumni, providing excellent classes and maintaining the strong Fusia foundation since 2011. Francesca's mission in sharing the arts and her love of dance is to help make a difference and impact a life. There is no greater gift in the world than to be able to do what you love and inspire others to also go after their dreams.