Written about, in her own words

May 30, 2026

Presented to Giselle Anne by Alejandra Sabena, for leaving the first footprints of Argentine tango in Seville and for dedicating her passion to a space where the embrace, the music and tango culture found a home. The citation ends: Gracias por abrir el camino — thank you for opening the way.

February 11, 2026

Radio Parque Patricios (FM 91.7, Buenos Aires)

In this interview, Giselle Anne reflects on her approach to teaching tango, from individual technique to partner work, and on the importance of experience, enthusiasm, and time in developing as a dancer. She describes tango as “infinite” and considers the differences between teaching in Argentina and abroad, where elements that are culturally absorbed must be made explicit. She also discusses focused seminars and her long-term project with Gustavo Naveira: a structured teacher-training course based on their years of experience, with particular attention to the challenge of teaching beginners well.

February 7, 2026

Giselle Anne "Tengo una pregunta para vos" by Pepa Palazon

40 years dancing tango, 30 of them with partner Gustavo Naveira
Self-taught in 1980s Buenos Aires milongas — no formal teachers existed then
Began teaching almost by accident in Seville, Spain
Met Gustavo in 1995; returned to Buenos Aires in 1999
Prioritizes connection and musicality over technique
Believes embellishments should arise naturally, not be taught
Traditionalist: favors fixed leader/follower roles over swapping
Says an "active" follower comes from understanding, not leading
Now rediscovering herself as a solo dancer/teacher post-partnership with Gustavo
Launching a project to train future tango teachers
Advises aspiring professionals: dance widely, experiment, find your own style

June 12, 2025

Radio Parque Patricios (FM 91.7, Buenos Aires)

September 3, 2024

Ancona, Italy: Adriatic Courier

Ancona's Vivaltango cultural association (led by Giorgio Gaggiotti, founded 1995) hosts two days of tango study and performance with masters Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne, September 7-8, at Ristorante Passetto's Unicorn convention hall.

December 10, 2022

An American dance site closes its list of ten notable tango figures with Giselle Anne and Gustavo Naveira, placed among mostly historical names such as El Cachafaz, Carlos Gardel and Carlos Gavito. Giselle Anne is described as a dancer and choreographer who has performed across Europe, the Americas and Japan, with a balanced, grounded presence and more than thirty years in tango. The entry credits the two of them as co-founders of the Boulder Tango Studio and the Boulder Tango Festival, and dates their partnership to 1995.

October 1, 2022

Berlin welcomes Giselle Anne and Gustavo Naveira back after almost twenty years, for a week of workshops and performances in July 2022. Writer Andra Joeckle finds the teaching precise enough that experts still learn from the basics, and the dancing composed rather than showy. Interviewed together, Giselle Anne dismisses the old notion that a follower's job is to seduce the leader: one dances with another because they dance well. She is equally impatient with romantic myth-making about tango, insisting the reality of the dance is more interesting. A sidebar traces her path from ballet at three to tango at seventeen.

April 8, 2022

A Boston tango school devotes a feature to celebrated followers, arguing that lists of great tango dancers too often stop at the leaders. Giselle Anne appears alongside Alejandra Mantiñán, Eleonora Kalganova, Virginia Gómez, Michaela Böttinger, Ariadna Naveira and Juana Sepúlveda. Her section traces her early ballet training, a first encounter with tango at eighteen through the folk ballet of the University of Buenos Aires, and a tour of more than fifty Japanese cities. It closes on her argument that once a couple understands the structure of the dance, a great deal no longer needs to be led.

August 22, 2021

Documentary by Daniel Tonelli & Marcelo Turrisi produced by Argentine Tango Society

January 10, 2021

Giselle Anne and Gustavo Naveira join an online edition of the Sultans of Tango festival from Buenos Aires, under a night curfew. Asked what it is like to dance with him, Giselle Anne says she recognised her own preoccupation in his: trained in ballet, where everything was precise, she had found a tango with no rules and wanted to understand it. She adds, warmly, that he is hard to work with because he wants everything perfect. She also previews a class on close embrace, which she frames as the opposite problem to a flexible one and a different technique altogether.

October 2, 2019

Tango Argentino was the groundbreaking show that led to the renaissance of interest in Argentine Tango. It premiered in Paris, then conquered Broadway and later toured the world. It had enormous cultural influence on the understanding of tango history, music and dance, fashion, hair and makeup. After seven years of research and writing, tango historian Antón Gazenbeek presents his in-depth history of the show. The book includes never before seen backstage photographs, memorabilia and inside stories taken directly from personal interviews with all the surviving cast members, narrated intimately enough that you become part of the show's creation, its backstage dramas and its onstage triumphs.

August 22, 2019

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June 22, 2019

Giselle and Gustavo met in 1995 in Spain during a show, thrown together to perform despite never having met — Gustavo calls it love at first sight, dancing "as if we'd always danced together."
At the time of the interview they were in Rome together for a workshop at Alicia Vaccarini's "Orango Tango" school.

July 21, 2017

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July 27, 2016

The concentrated "wisdom" of the Tango Maestros in 80 pages. In this series, Susanne Mühlhaus profiles the Maestros of Argentine Tango: Gustavo Naveira & Giselle Anne — the world's most renowned tango teachers — and others. The book traces the development of these Maestros, how the tango teaching couples met, explains their teaching philosophy and methodology, and presents their thoughts on tango and how they view tango in different countries. The biographies and perspectives are engaging, entertaining and enlightening. The author's photographs highlight the Maestros' personalities and approaches. Published July 2016.

May 19, 2016

Giselle Anne and Gustavo Naveira headline the Philadelphia International Tango Festival, teaching and performing at Christ Church Neighborhood House, where a weekend of lessons, workshops and shows runs into the early hours. Ellen Dunkel's preview opens on the absorbed, meditative state dancers reach when improvisation, music and the energy of the room align, and quotes festival director Meredith Klein on how thoroughly Argentine tango is improvised and on the continuous communication between leader and follower. The paper's photograph, in which Giselle Anne dances with her partner, carries her name first.

November 1, 2015

A survey of the tango community of New York's Hudson Valley opens with a sold-out night at Bard College's Spiegeltent, where Giselle Anne and Gustavo Naveira spend an evening tracing the cultural and historical reach of tango. They show photographs and film of teachers across the decades, tell stories from their own performances, then give a class for beginners before the room turns into a milonga of experts and novices together. Aisha King reports more than 250 people at the fourth annual Bard tango night, drawn from across the region by the two teachers.

November 1, 2013

Buenos Aires, by Silvia Rojas
The profile covers Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne's touring show "Tango Generations," featuring their children Federico and Ariadna plus veteran dancers Nito and Elba, blending traditional and modern tango, with upcoming dates in New York, Buenos Aires, and Switzerland.
Gustavo Naveira discusses his daughter Ariadna's precise, technically refined dancing and agrees tango is always evolving.
He feels no "repentance" over past innovations, unlike some dancers, seeing change as natural and today's dancers as better.
Foreign tango fans increasingly embrace remastered classic-era music alongside modern tango.
He's confident tango's global growth ensures continuity for future generations.

October 19, 2013

At the seventh Tango Revolución festival in Italy, Giselle Anne and Gustavo Naveira answer questions on how the dance has changed across thirty years. Giselle Anne makes the case for technique: tango has its own, owing nothing to any other dance form, and dancers avoid the word because it sounds borrowed from contemporary dance. She rejects the worry that a woman who works on technique stops following, since leading and following are themselves technique. Asked what makes a good couple, she answers first with time, because years of dancing together give something no amount of rehearsal can.

August 1, 2012

Max Civili interviews Gustavo Naveira during the Catania tango festival in Sicily, where he performs in the baroque cloister of the Palazzo dei Minoriti on a night of extreme August heat. Naveira argues that what improves the dance is deep technical knowledge rather than instinct alone, and that technique can be taught to anyone. Giselle Anne, his partner of more than fifteen years, dances with him on the floor and is named among the festival's guest teachers alongside Ariadna and Federico Naveira, Fernando Sánchez and Sabrina Masso.

June 2, 2012

Tango in Town: Giselle and Gustavo will perform in Tapei and teach a 16-hour seminar over the course of four days

November 10, 2011

A first-hand account of studying with Giselle Anne and Gustavo Naveira, written by a student who took them up on a recommendation from the maestra Nora Olivera and was warned it would be the hardest thing he had attempted in tango. He describes a class that opens with a question rather than a step, and a whole day spent on a movement that lasts a moment. Giselle Anne demonstrates each concept with him, and the writer finds the beauty of what the two of them show as striking as the thinking behind it.

April 10, 2010

La evolución del Tango no tienes limites
Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne discuss their life and work in tango at their Buenos Aires studio.
They reflect on their 10-year personal and professional partnership, describing tango as both a technical connection and a form of human encounter.
Giselle emphasises the social energy of the milonga, while Gustavo describes his evolution from obsessive dancer to fulfilled teacher.
They compare tango culture in Argentina and abroad, noting different emphases on artistic exploration, social connection, and physical touch.
They discuss the global growth of tango and its spread across countries including the US, Germany, Japan, France, and Italy.
Gustavo argues that their analytical approach to tango technique has contributed to the dance's evolution.
They ultimately see tango as a uniquely accessible form of artistic expression and social connection.

April 6, 2010

Basel's eleventh international tango festival, Ostertango 2010, devotes one evening to staged work at the Schauspielhaus, where Giselle Anne and Gustavo Naveira present their show Sinfonia de Arrabal. Rolf de Marchi describes a piece built on 1930s recordings by Edgardo Donato, in which two people meet as if by chance, dance, and fall in love. He reads it as tango danced by the rules of the art, lightened with humour and free of the overheated clichés the form usually attracts. Two other companies share the bill before the festival returns to the Volkshaus for a long night of dancing.

April 14, 2009

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April 17, 2008

Giselle Anne and Gustavo Naveira perform at Mano a Mano, the Thursday milonga run by Helen La Vikinga and Jorge Miranda at Salón Canning in Palermo. The French couple Tierry Le Cocq and Alessia Lyndin dance the same night. The listing sets their appearance inside a full day of tango at the venue: afternoon practices and classes, an early evening seminar, and dancing until four in the morning, under the house motto of a traditional milonga with an open mind.

September 1, 2004

The magazine's cover feature is a long conversation about the analytical approach to tango: taking the dance apart, examining how movement actually works, and teaching from that understanding rather than from fixed sequences. Giselle Anne is present throughout the period it describes — photographed alongside Naveira, and named as the partner with whom he was then developing the work. Asked what it means for a dancer to change partner, he describes the years of building a shared quality of dancing with her as a process still underway, because the learning never finishes. Read two decades on, the interview is a record of where the ideas behind Giselle's own teaching were formed.

June 28, 2002

For a week in the summer of 2002, Padua gave itself over to Argentine tango. The festival, Padova Tango 2002: Oltre i confini, "beyond borders", filled the city with classes, milongas, a twenty-four-hour tango marathon and a photographic exhibition drawn from the Astor Piazzolla Foundation's archive, and the paper carried it on its front page under the headline "Padua, tango capital". Giselle Anne and Gustavo Naveira were the festival's guests of honour, closing it with a gala at the Gran Caffè delle Terme in Abano Terme.

January 31, 1997

Creación de "La Casa del Tango en Sevilla"

Giselle Anne, a young Argentine dancer of Italian-French descent from Buenos Aires, arrived in Seville in 1992 while touring Europe with the company "Tango Argentino."
She fell in love with the city and decided to stay.
Over five years she ran a tango academy, toured Spain and Europe (France, Belgium, Austria), and trained a five-couple company with local students.
She discusses tango's ties to Spanish flamenco, notably the bulería from Cádiz.
A memorable performance at Monaco's Baile de la Rosa earned praise from the royal family.
She has taught over 100 students in Seville.
The article marks the opening of her "Casa del Tango" on Calle Gravina, a hub for tango culture, study, and a planned magazine.

April 16, 1995

"Bal de la Rose", Monaco: show with the Mosallini Orquestra, with the collaboration of Alfredo Arias. The ambiance of an Argentine cabaret — "Monte-Carlo Buenos-Aires".

The article, titled "Caroline secoue Monaco!", covers Princess Caroline of Monaco's return to prominence at Monaco's annual Bal de la Rose (Rose Ball). Giselle Anne's tango performance was featured as part of the evening's entertainment.