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no boundaries

Whose Body Is This? is a multimedia investigation into how people move forward after they’ve been assaulted by illness. Dance, music, poetry, and video combine to reveal the truth, humor, and journey from disease to ease.

Artistic Direction by Gesel Mason
Technical Direction and Lighting Design by Cheles Rhynes
Stories contributed by Toni Asante Lightfoot, Lucy Bowen McCauley,
and Sarah Lowing Scott
Poetry by Toni Asante Lightfoot
Original Music Composition/Cellist/Vocal Accompaniment by Dawn Avery
Costume Design by Nicole McClam
Videography by Liz Smith
Performed by Dawn Avery, Rita Jean Kelly Burns, Alison Crosby, Sarah Levitt, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Heather Lyle, Gesel Mason, Lucy Bowen McCauley, Sarah Lowing Scott, Bobby Sidney and Samantha Speis

This project received a 2007 Millennium Stage Local Dance Commissioning Project Grant from John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. View the performance here.


upcoming events


March 7-12, 2011
Gesel Mason Performance Projects "No Boundaries"
Minnesota, MN
Co-presentation with University of Minnesota

Visit the EVENTS page for all M/RP events.



press

“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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