She taught film production at NYU, Tisch School of Arts, before joining the faculty at NYUAD. Sessions with the artists Robert Rauschenberg, Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, Bill T Jones, and Pina Bausch are part of her portfolio. Selections of published work include Dance and Art in Dialogue Life’s publication, The Year in Pictures, and Defining Contemporary Art. Recipient of a Nikon award, Savio has exhibited in Europe and the United States. Her book Vital Grace explores African American male choreographers and the cultural difficulties encountered in choosing dance as a profession. She is currently working on a mixed media project with her husband, Jim Savio, titled Home Sick, a meditation on the complexity of home and family in a transnational landscape.