Brian MсGinnis loves being a dancer. Brian began dancing with Jo Ann Warren in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He graduated from The Juilliard School under Benjamin Harkavy’s directorship with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance. Brian immersed himself in the NYC-based companies of Lar Lubovitch, David Parsons, Elisa Monte, Zvi Gotheiner, and Jacqulyn Buglisi for many years. In Chicago, he toured with Hubbard Street Dance in 1997 and, more recently, on faculty at ChiArts, Chicago’s Public Performing Arts High School, and Visceral Dance Center in the heart of the windy city. Brian has had the honor to perform at Jacob’s Pillow, The Cultural Center of the Philippines, The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, the American Dance Festival, Durham, NC, Lincoln Center, The Joyce Theatre, the NYCity Center, The Kennedy Center, the Chicago Dancing Festival at Millennium Park, The Shubert Theatre, Boston, The Spoleto Festival, Italy and many more. During those informative years, he self-produced workshops, masterclasses, and performance residencies, gaining more perspective on dance and how it impacted him both creatively and pedagogically—leading him to graduate school at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where, in 2017, he earned his Master of Fine Arts Degree in Dance. That same year, joining Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Dance Department as an associate professor of dance, where he is the Artistic Director of the Senior Performance Project /Forward, instructs Senior Modern Dance Technique, First and Third Year Dance Composition, and the Professional Seminar course. Brian produces concerts for his choreography classes.

He celebrates over five years of collaborating and presenting original dance and music performances with the Music Composition Department at Berklee College of Music. In 2020, he was the intro-film creative director for the conservatory’s honorary doctorate, Mikhail Baryshnikov. He is a faculty mentor and rehearsal director and has received the student-nominated Best of Berklee Award and Dance Conservatory Teacher of the Year award. He was also awarded a Faculty Travel Grant and Faculty Development Fellowship from Berklee College of Music to conduct pedagogical research for his evolving McGinnis Method. Brian holds an Associate’s Degree in Occupational Science for Massage Therapy from The Swedish Institute in NYC and is a Massachusetts State Licensed Massage Therapist.