Born in San Juan, Argentina, Gisela began her ballet training at Estudio Pavlova before receiving scholarships to study in France at the Conservatoire de Dreux and the Conservatoire National de Musique et Danse de Nancy et Lorraine, where she graduated with the Médaille de Vermeil. She performed with Le Ballet National de Nancy et Lorraine under Pierre Lacotte and toured nationally and internationally, appearing at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Palais du Festival de Cannes, Théâtre de Lausanne, Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, and venues across Italy, Spain, Finland, Russia (Bolshoi Theatre), China, and Brazil.
After moving to New York, she danced for American Contemporary Ballet, Westminster Ballet, Christopher Caines Dance Company, Douglas Dunn, among others. In 2012, she co-founded ENCOUNTERS DANCE with dance partner Edgar Peterson, presenting work at The Ailey Citigroup Theater, The Bowery Electric, New York City Center, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center (in honor of Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins centennials with Millennium Chamber Symphony), as well as Summer and Autumn Festivals. She continues to choreograph site-specific works in collaboration with visual artists and composers at the Kate Oh Art Gallery.
Gisela has taught ballet extensively in New York (Ballet Arts, Ballet & Body, The Great Neck School of Dance, Dance Cavise, Joffrey Ballet School, Riverbank State Park, and Encore Center for Performing Arts). She was recently invited to participate in the international artistic project Art for Women Today, created by Caterina Arciprete and sponsored by ArtSight AB Gallery Stockholm, with works presented in Stockholm, Rome, and Geneva.
She is honored to choreograph The Mutt and is deeply inspired by the creative process, collaboration, and layered storytelling of this production.