Messaline Gerstein

Messaline Gerstein initially pursues a dual career in social work and dance. In 2014, she completed professional dance training at FUNCEB in Salvador de Bahia, in northern Brazil. There, she focused primarily on traditional Brazilian dances, contemporary dance, and a modern dance technique known as the Silvestre Technique. She subsequently moved to Madrid, where she continued her training in modern and contemporary dance at the Carmen Senra Center. In 2018, she co-founded the companies Serendipity and Ethos-animation to develop independent projects in dance, physical theater, cultural mediation, and the visual arts. She is particularly involved in creating performances, dance videos, and installations (Samyukt, Floating Images, Rayuela, Pinocchio, Pandora, Dans le regard de...) and offers cultural outreach workshops (in dance, theater, and the visual arts) for schools, theaters, and nonprofit organizations. With a strong interest in interdisciplinary creative processes, she dances and performs with various independent companies alongside her own projects (notably: Grupo Gênesis led by Mestre King (Brazil), Balad Carretas led by Maïte Larrañeta (Madrid), and Cie Daudet Grazia (Switzerland–France)). In 2018, she co-founded the companies Serendipity and Ethos-animation to develop independent projects in dance, physical theater, cultural outreach, and the visual arts. She is particularly involved in creating performances, video dance works, and installations (Samyukt, Floating Images, Rayuela, Pinocchio, Pandora) and offers cultural mediation workshops. She has also participated for many years in open-stage events and creative workshops in dance and theater (La Fabrica, Plakart, Big Theatre Böff) in Switzerland and abroad. For the past few years, she has been conducting research on cultural mediation and the creation of performances for young audiences through programs such as Choreolab “Dance and School,” and she is active as a dance mediator for various cultural projects in the canton of Bern. Seeking to enrich her practice in dance and theater, she has been pursuing a master’s degree in physical theater creation at Academia Dimitri since 2025.