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Giselle Barcasi is a multi-hyphenated artist. -Actress, to start mentioning her hyphens, graduated at the New York Film Academy and Casa das Artes de Laranjeiras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). -Psychoanalyst, graduated at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. -Independent model. -Dancer, has been practicing pole-dancing for six years, in addition to regularly attending classical ballet classes. Other dances that she has experience are for example tap dance, jazz, contortionism, aerial hoop and aerial silk. -She sings, as the brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro says – "she doesn't sing like a singer, but she sings like an actress", she regularly takes singing lessons. The question that guides Barcasi's work would be "What binds together the many hyphens one holds?" A question with no closed-end answers, a frontier she has been delving into throughout the years. What binds together the many hyphens this artist holds? 

She is devoted to Theater, one of her most powerful hyphens. As a child, she grew up with the routine of attending plays every saturday, a routine that was diligently encouraged by her mother, Helena. As a child, she drooled over the work of actors on stage without even elaborating that being an actress was a dream. She grows up, distances herself from being so present in an audience, and ends up taking her first acting class only at the age of nineteen. Since her first class on a Wednesday night at the "O Tablado" in Rio de Janeiro, she hasn't left the stage. She then enrolled in the CAL technical course and graduated as a professional actress in 2022.

In recent years, throughout her professional training as an actress, Giselle has privileged every chance she has to be in the audience of a show. She learned everything she knows about theater from classes at the college in Laranjeiras, and continues to enhance this learning by watching closely and taking notes on the plays she attends. 

As much as her education and appreciation are mostly dedicated to the theater, the actress is also interested in delving into the audiovisual language. Since last year, she has been intensively training with an emphasis on audiovisual media and therefore was accepted into the New York Film Academy's eight-week intensive acting for film program. While in town, she participated in several short films outside the walls of the college she attended, short films that are described in her curriculum. In addition to these connections, in town she did an Artistic Residency at the Mothership NYC organization, an artistic organization that functions as a workspace and home to international artists from different areas of Visual Arts and Performing Arts. As the final project of this residency, the artist writes her first authoral monologue "Reminiscence", written and performed in English, presenting it to the audience at Last Frontier NYC, a studio linked to the production company Broadway Stages. Her monologue seeks to answer the question "What binds together the many hyphens one holds?", a monologue about the transmission that occurs from us to our descendants, about the transmission that occurred from our ancestors to us.

Currently, Giselle is back below the equatorial line, dividing herself between the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.

 

TELEPHONE

+55 (21) 97201-1463

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@gisellebarcasi

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