An accomplished dancer, teacher, choreographer, and adjudicator, Vanessa Zullo has over 20 years of training in ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, modern, hip hop, acrobatics, ballroom, and in several World dance styles. She is the former artistic director of her own studio in Ontario, Canada. Over the course of her 35-year teaching career, Vanessa, her students, and her choreography have won numerous awards and scholarships at both the regional and national levels. Vanessa has been providing dancers with helpful and encouraging feedback motivating them to develop their passion and success as dancers as a professional, bilingual adjudicator for over 17 years across Canada. She is sought out consistently by many esteemed competitions to be on their judging panels, where she takes great pride in celebrating and creating special moments with the wonderful dancers she is privileged to watch and communicate with. Vanessa is a member of the Professional Adjudicators Alliance in addition to being a Certified Acrobatics Dance Adjudicator. Vanessa's philosophy, and expertise on all aspects of dance adjudication can also be heard on the Podcast, Dance Comp Chat with Rob Jensen available on Spotify. 

Vanessa nurtures and supports every dancer to share her core values, “Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”