Gesel Mason Performance Projects

Gesel Mason Performance Projects (GMPP) creates dance theater works that "move her audience to tears and laughter" (Washington Post). 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. Wanna watch more GMPP videos on YouTube? CLICK HERE TEACHING SCHEDULE Fridays from 9:00-10:30 at the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange 7117 Maple Avenue, Takoma Park, MD www.danceexchange.org
Current Projects

Saturday, September 12, 2009
GMPP at the Smithsonian's Community Day
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Spend the day at the National Museum of African Art

October 2-3, 2009
Gesel Mason Performance Projects at Velocity DC
Harman Hall

October 3, 2009
LATE NIGHT: Velocity!!!
Harman Hall
Featuring Gesel Mason Performance Project

March 25-27, 2010
"Women, Sex, and Desire:" Sometimes You Feel Like a Ho, Sometimes You Don't.
UMD Kogod Theater
Featuring Gesel Mason Performance Project

Visit the EVENTS page for all M/RP events.

“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

“…her dancing [is] full of quicksilver physical and thematic shifts."
-- Jennifer Dunning,
New York Times

"Gesel Mason understands how to move her audience to tears and laughter. Though trained as a dancer, it's her talents for blending video, text and movement that make her company, Gesel Mason Performance Projects, so engaging to watch.”
-- Janet Lynn Roseman, Washington Post

“Mason gave…a jamming solo that climaxed in a handstand with her back arched and her feet dangling above her head.”
-- Clare Croft,
Dance Magazine

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