Gisela Creus is a dancer, educator, and choreographer with an international and interdisciplinary interest. Since 2007, she has combined her artistic career with the direction and management of the Association nunArt and nunArt Creacions. She began dancing at the age of 9, exploring various styles. At 18, she started her studies in Business Administration at the UAB while completing a two-year professional dance training course in Barcelona, where she earned her diploma. Later, she was accepted and awarded a scholarship at Laban Conservatoire (Trinity Laban) in London, where she studied for three years and graduated with honors in Dance Theatre. She specializes in contemporary dance, improvisation, creative dance, classical dance technique, and yoga. Since then, she has continued training with internationally renowned artists, mainly in Barcelona, London, and the United States.
As a performer and creator, she has worked with various dance companies, choreographers, collectives, and stage projects and has presented over ten professional pieces as a choreographer, both individually and in collaboration with other artists. In 2019, she created two choreographic works for the dance companies of Roger Williams University and Providence College. In 2019, she was awarded the RISCA (Rhode Island State Council on the Arts) Fellowship Award in Choreography for her solo piece The Quiet A, created, directed, and performed by herself in 2018. In collaboration with Daniel Davidson, she co-founded the artistic collective HDC Dance Ensemble, presenting their work at DanceNOW Boston, The Provincetown Dance Festival, Modern Movements Festival, Providence Dance Festival, among others. In recent years, she has created three choreographic pieces: Cosmos, Travessia Còsmica, and Magenta, presented at nunArt Creacions, Teatre de L’Estruch, and Festival 15m2, among others. She has also created several pieces for student groups at AREA and IAB, Institute of the Arts Barcelona.
With over 15 years of teaching experience, she teaches contemporary dance, improvisation, and creative dance; from beginners to professionals at various specialized dance centers. She lived and worked for three years in the United States, where she was a contemporary and classical dance professor at Salve Regina University and also directed rehearsals for the Extensions Dance Company at the same university. She offers workshops and intensives at centers such as nunArt and AREA (Barcelona), Marshall and Franklin University (Philadelphia), MIT University (Boston), Brown University (Providence), CICER Residency (Cabo Verde), Play Practice Apprenticeship Residency (India), and IAB Institute of the Arts Barcelona in Sitges, among others.
Currently, she lives in Barcelona, where she continues co-directing nunArt Creacions, the collective creation support program PROJECTem, and the Sincronies Escoles Project. She teaches regular classes at nunArt Creacions, L’Estruch, through the Sabadell Contemporary Dance Association, and at the IAB Institute of the Arts Barcelona in Sitges, focusing on contemporary dance, improvisation, and composition.
