Gesel Mason

GESEL MASON, alumni, performer, choreographer, producer/director and educator visited the department in March 2009 as part of the College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni series. She was also commissioned to choreograph the "Senior Piece" in December 2008.

Gesel Mason has performed nationally and internationally with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Repertory Dance Theatre of Utah, Jacek Luminski of Silesian Dance Theatre, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and Ralph Lemon. She was selected Emerging Choreographer by the Bates Dance Festival in 2000, received 2 Metro DC Dance Awards for NO BOUNDARIES and a 2007 Millennium Stage Local Dance Commissioning Project from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. GESEL MASON PERFORMANCE PROJECTS (GMPP) creates dance theater works that "move her audience to tears and laughter" (Washington Post).
For more information please visit: Gesel Mason Performance Projects

“Gesel Mason’s one-woman show [NO BOUNDARIES] was the sort of performance that in any other realm would enshrine her among a select few standouts…an ambitious, riveting and impressively executed program.”
—Sarah Kaufman, Washington Post, October 23, 2006