Giannella Sensi studied with great dancers and teachers of the Scala of Milan and the Dance Academy of Rome including Giuliana Penzi, Bianca Gallizia, Ancy Fedor, Lyda Bianchi, Margarita Trayanova, Andrè De la Roche, Matt Mattox, Alain Astiè and many others. She danced in the theaters of northern Italy and then preferred to dedicate herself to teaching and, after two years of training for Teachers and, in parallel for the management of a dance school, she began teaching first in Piacenza, later in the province of Florence and then in the city at the Dance Line dance school directed by Anna Berardi, former prima ballerina of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Since 1988 she has been the Artistic Director of the Fantasia Accademia Danza school in Florence, of which she has also been president since 2022, and since 2000 she has also been the Artistic Director of Firenze & Danza.
She was a member of the board of directors of the Anlid association of Modena and on the board for two years of Fids in the artistic dance sector. She was also technical and artistic manager within a national sports body. She is currently responsible for Academic Dances within the World Dance Competition AICS.
She has been dedicated to teaching for over 40 years without ever neglecting technical refresher courses alongside those of psychology, pedagogy and medicine applied to dance. For 25 years she has organized, together with three other collaborators, and with the important collaboration of the Municipality of Florence and the Quartiere Due, the international competition “Firenze & Danza” where every year it hosts more than 60 schools and over 1300 dancers from the most important Dance Schools and Academies.
Since 2010, it has started training courses in all styles and followed by great professionals in the world of dance. In 2019, with the collaboration of the choreographer Angelo Egarese, the FD JUNIOR ENSEMBLE was born, planning new professional training courses for young dancers and with the possibility of accessing the youth company. Furthermore, personalized courses to be able to enter national and international companies.