No Boundaries Donors: Darren Anthony, Joanna Ashleigh, Sally Ed Augden in honor of Erica Augden, Holly Bass, Emily Beattie, John Morris and Laura Benedict Benedict, Ching-I Bigelow, Lisa Biggs, Elsa Barkley Brown, Rebecca Butler, Cherie Cain, Sarah Council, Bonnie Cox, Sage Crump, Colin Danville, Peter DiMuro, Fiona Eakin, Marissa Elliott, Thoyd Ellis, Bill Evans, Adriane Fang, Firebird Productions LLC, Wendy Franz, Ondine Geary, Melanie George, Cristina Goletti, Lisa Goodrich, Katherine Graf, Heather Gray, Nancy Grimes, Kayla Hamilton, Emily K.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and the University of Colorado Boulder. Mason has put together a show that should be required viewing for students of dance history, not so much for the facts it touches upon but for the personalities and points of view revealed in excerpts from video interviews that accompany the dances.”
The Washington Post noted: “Gesel Mason’s one-woman show 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.” The New York Times claimed: “Ms. No Boundaries has been presented by 651 Arts (NY), Dance Place (DC), Joyce SoHo (NY), Links Hall (IL), Long Island University (NY), South Dallas Cultural Center (TX), SUNY Potsdam (NY), Painted Bride (PA), ProArts Collective (TX), University of Minnesota (MN), and West Virginia University (VA). The evolving repertory of solos has had a long tour life since its premiere in 2003 to 2015. The solo performance project received a National Dance Project Tour Only Grant in 2008/09 from New England Foundation for the Arts, two Metro DC Dance Awards in 2007, and was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and National Performance Network. With documentary footage of interviews with the choreographers interspersed between dances that span from the 1940’s to the present, No Boundaries delivered snapshots of, and created discussion around, the idea of Black dance over seven decades. The performance project featured several of the nation’s leading contemporary African American choreographers, including Dianne McIntyre, Robert Battle, Bebe Miller, Donald McKayle, Reggie Wilson, Andrea Woods, David Roussève, Rennie Harris, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, who choreographed original and historic works for the solo performance.
No boundary archive#
For over fifteen years, No Boundaries primarily existed as an evolving archive of original and established solos choreographed by African American choreographers that Gesel Mason performed in one evening. The original No Boundaries project was created in 2004 in order to celebrate the depth and diversity of style and vision in the field of modern dance.
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