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March 2008 PERFORMANCE |
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WEEK ONE:
GESEL MASON, DARRELL JONES, & DAVID ROUSSÈVE
Friday & Saturday, March 7 & 8,
8pm
Sunday, March 9, 7pm
$15 ($12 students, seniors) |
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Gesel Mason
No Less Black (1998)
Washington, DC based Gesel Mason will perform her piece No Less
Black, set to Songhai’s Spanish-inspired guitar and Mason’s
poem of the same name. The juxtaposition of words, music, and movement
dissects stereotypes and social images. It allows us to peek into
the complexities of race, color and social responsibility within
the African-American community, while finding parallels to other
social realities. mason-rhynes.org
Limber and athletic, Mason’s dancing leaves
a searing impression -Washington Post
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Darrell Jones
third Swan from the end (2007)
Chicago Dancemakers Forum Grantee Darrell Jones performs his choreographic
response to research of Chicago vogue culture. Voguing has become
a present metaphor for ideas of power and transgression; "gay"
and "black" intermingle in potent ways within this often
misunderstood dance form. The extreme virtuosity of the voguing aesthetic
is pitted against narratives of escape, fantasy, and tragedy, demonstrating
how transformation and adaptation relate directly to social survival.
thirdswan.com |
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David Roussève
Jumping the Broom (2005)
Creative Capital and Bessie Award winner David Roussève created
Jumping the Broom as part of a National Performance Network
commissioned project which celebrates the depth and diversity of
style and vision in modern dance. Soloist Gesel Mason portrays a
shackled bride, interpreting Roussève’s recorded narration
of a slave love story.
By relating the prohibition on slaves marrying
to the current debate on gay marriage, Roussève forces political
stridency onto an otherwise emotionally laden work -Washington
Post
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