Gesel Mason (she/her), Artistic Director, Gesel Mason Performance Projects

GESEL MASON is Artistic Director for Gesel Mason Performance Projects and Associate Professor of Dance and Choreography at the University of Texas at Austin. Mason utilizes dance, theater, humor, and storytelling to bring visibility to voices unheard, situations neglected, or perspectives considered taboo. 

Her current choreographic project Yes, And, centers Black womanhood as the norm and operating force in the creative process. It is an evolving performance project activated by the question: “Who would you be and what would you do if, as a Black woman, you had nothing to worry about?” The project is supported by NPN and NEFA.