Gisella-Guadalupe Páez

Her work begins with “the Law of Conservation of Mass: in a closed system, matter is not created or destroyed; it only changes form.”

Gisella-Guadalupe Páez (she/her) is a performer and designer investigating transformation, lineage, and the spaces between inherited practice and personal inquiry. What she loves most about dance is finding hypnotic states and ecstatic trances through physical exertions. She holds a BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts and has performed works by Jennifer Nugent, Sidra Bell, Jesse Zaritt, Doug Varone, Merce Cunningham, Boris Charmatz, Susannah Yugler, and as a Trainee with Boston Dance Theater she learned repertoire by Itzik Galili and Micaela Taylor, among others.

She is currently developing a creative practice centered on sustained research and collaboration that asks the body to generate artifacts like paintings, drawings, and choreographic extensions that can serve as living documentation of process.