Gesel mason biography

Gesel Mason is.
Gesel R. Mason is a choreographer, performer, educator, and arts facilitator.
Gesel R. Mason is a choreographer, performer, educator, and artist scholar.

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Collaboration being fundamental to her working process, Bebe Miller (Artistic Director/Choreographer) has worked with composers, artists, writers, filmmakers, designers, and dramaturgs alongside the dancers who share her studio practice. Her vision of dance and performance resides in her faith in the moving body as a record of thought, experience, and beauty. Her aesthetic relies on the interplay of a work’s idea, its physicality, and the contributions of company members to fashion its singular voice. She has received four New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Guggenheim Foundation, and many others. She received one of the first Doris Duke Artists Awards in 2012. Miller is a United States Artists Ford Fellow, has received a New York Live Arts’ David White Award, and was a 2015 Movement Research Honoree. A Distinguished Professor in Dance at The Ohio State University’s College of Arts and Humanities from 2000–2016, Miller received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Ursinus

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Gesel R. Mason

Undergraduate: Contemporary Dance Technique, Movement Composition and Choreography, Projects in Dance Performance and Repertory;

Graduate: Embodiment, Legacy and Archiving Performance, Dance as Social Justice, Graduate Dance Technique, Performance Studio, Advance Projects in Performance

Recent Performances

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- group performance at Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas; Co-presented by Fusebox and Women & Their Work (2022)
- Hillwood Estate, Museum & Garden, Washington D.C.; Co-presented by Dance Place and Hillwood Estate (2022)
Burst! - five hour solo performance event at ICOSA gallery in Austin, Texas and virtually via livestream (2020)
No Boundaries – film premiere at Fusebox Virtual Festival in Austin, Texas (2020)
No Boundaries – solo performance at 651 ARTS and RestorationART at The Billie Holiday Theatre in Brooklyn, New York (2018)
Josephine – solo performance and exhibition at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, Florida (2019)
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GESEL R. MASON is a choreographer, performer, educator, and artist scholar. She is Artistic Director for Gesel Mason Performance Projects and Associate Professor of Dance and Choreography at the University of Texas at Austin. She was a member of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and Ralph Lemon/Cross Performance Projects. She has also performed with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Repertory Dance Theatre of Utah, and under the direction of Chuck Davis, Jacek Łumiński (Silesian Dance Theatre), Murray Louis, and Victoria Marks.

Her company, Gesel Mason Performance Projects (GMPP), serves as a medium for her creative work. GMPP is a project-based dance company that seeks to create meaningful, relevant, and compelling art events to encourage compassion and inquiry. In her work, Mason utilizes dance, theater, humor, and storytelling to bring visibility to voices unheard, situations neglected, or perspectives considered taboo. Numerous venues and festivals have presented Mason’s choreography including John F. Kennedy Center, American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, the Internation