Gisela Creus

Gisela Creus Casanovas is a dancer, educator, and choreographer from Barcelona, Spain. She graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatory in London in 2007 with Honours. Since then she has been combining her international and interdisciplinary creative interests with the direction and management of nunArt Creacions, an internationally acclaimed and leading contemporary dance space in Barcelona, Spain. Gisela has worked in and with various dance companies, choreographers, collectives, and stage projects. She has presented more than ten professional pieces as a choreographer, individually and in collaboration. In 2018 she was awarded the Rhode Island States Council for the Arts’ (RISCA) Fellowship Award in Choreography. Her most recent works, Cosmos, Travessia Còsmica, and Magenta, have been performed in theatres and festivals around Spain and the United States. At the pedagogical level, Gisela teaches contemporary dance, ballet, improvisation, composition and creative dance. She has most recently moved back to Spain after living and working in the United States where she was a professor of contemporary and classical dance at Salve Regina University. Most recently she has offered workshops and intensives at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Brown University, Rhode Island College (RIC), Providence College (PC), Roger Williams University, Marshall and Franklin University, Cape Verde International Cultural Exchange Residency (CICER), and Play Practice Apprenticeship Residency. " Her professional career began in 2009 being part of Victor Ullate’s Youth Ballet and in 2011 she joined the Barcelona Ballet under the direction of Ángel Corella. In 2014 she traveled to Germany to participate as a guest dancer in the Staatstheater Ballet Nürnberg companies, directed by Goyo Montero and Ballet Hagen under the direction of Ricardo Fernando. From 2014 to 2021 she has been part of the cast of the National Dance Company in Spain. During her professional career she danced in works by Nacho Duato, Jose Carlos Martinez, William Forsythe, Goyo Montero, George Balanchine, Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger, among others. Nowadays, she combines her artistic and teaching career, training at the María de Ávila Superior Conservatory, studying the Higher Degree in Pedagogy of classical dance.