Gisela Quinteros

Born in San Juan, Argentina and started 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, graduating with Médaille de Vermeil. She performed with Le Ballet National de Nancy et Lorraine under Pierre Lacotte and toured nationally and internationally including Théâtre Champs Élysée, Palais du Festival de Cannes, Théâtre Lausanne, Festival De Spoleto, Italy, Spain, Finland, Russia (Bolshoi Theater), China and Brasil. 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 and presented 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 (honoring Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins centennials with Millennium Chamber Symphony), Summer and Autumn Festivals. She continues to choreograph site specific works in collaboration with visual artists and composers at Kate Oh Art Gallery. She has thought Ballet extensively in NY (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 is part of an International Artistic Project “Art for Women Today” created by Caterina Arciprete and sponsored by ArtSight AB Gallery Stockholm with works presented in Stockholm, Rome, Napoli and Geneva. She recently choreographed “The Mutt” a Theatrical adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov.