She relocated to Paris with her first husband in 1925, where she continued her ballet studies with Lyubov Yegorova and Léo Staats, and began dancing in nightclubs and touring cabaret shows during the 1930s.

She worked as a dance teacher in Amsterdam, hiding from the Nazis during World War II, but still teaching.

Gaskell retired as director in 1969, and afterward served on the board of UNESCO and worked in TV productions.

About 1922 she married the mathematician Abraham Goldenson in Palestine, but the couple separated in 1939.

In 2009, the Jewish Historical Museum and the Netherlands Theatre Institute presented an exhibition based on her life and work.