Gesel R. Mason

Gesel R. Mason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Dance at The University of Texas at Austin and the Artistic Director of Gesel Mason Performance Projects. Her work merges dance, theater, and storytelling to explore the human condition and advocate for marginalized voices.

• African American choreographers
• Embodied archives
• Dance as social justice
• Contemporary dance technique
• Performance-based research

Mason’s projects include NO BOUNDARIES: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers and Yes, And, supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Performance Network. She has received recognition such as the UT Austin College of Fine Arts Distinguished Research Award (2020) and the UT Austin Humanities Research Award (2019).

• Collaborated with Rebecca Salzer on the No Boundaries Archive Project, funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant
• Recipient of the Rauschenberg Artist Residency (2019)
• Recent performances include Burst! at ICOSA Gallery (2020) and Yes, And at Women & Their Work (2022)