Giabriel Masson, guest

Gabriel Masson’s career as a choreographer, performer and teacher spans 20 years. He has toured the world in the companies of Hannah Kahn, Rosalind Newman, Lucinda Childs and Doug Varone, as well as dancing in specific projects with various choreographers including Peter Pucci, Mark Morris and Michele Pogliani(Italy).

Since 1989, he has choreographed over 30 pieces for professional and university dance companies and from 1997-2002 he served as artistic director of his own company, Gabriel Masson Dance, a national touring company, for which he created a critically acclaimed group of dances, The Human Series, Parts I - IV. In 2002, Masson began to investigate film and has completed two projects with differently-abled dancer Hamel Bloom: Almost Together, created with Emmy Award winning videographer Eliot Caplan, and FAMILY: PORTRAIT, created with Mexican videographer Ana Baer.

Masson has an international reputation as a teacher and has taught and performed at festivals worldwide including the American Dance Festival, USA and Korea; The Edinburgh Festival, Scotland; and the Sao Paolo Biennial, Brazil. He is on the rotating faculty of several prestigious dance festivals here in the States including the Bates Dance Festival (BDF). After receiving an M.F.A. from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts he was on faculty there from 1990-1995 and from 1997-2001 he served as artist-in-residence at the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, PA.

Recent projects include Clan, a collaboration with composer Peter Jones which was funded in part by the Bates Dance Festival and Meet the Composer; Museum Piece, commissioned by San Diego Dance Theater, which premiered at the Museum of Contemporary Art/San Diego and was chosen as one of the Top 10 Dance Events of 2004 by the San Diego Union Tribune; and Midnight, commissioned by Dancers In Company, which premiered at space/place in Iowa City, IA. He is currently developing a multi-media duet, A Story About Apples, with performers David Capps and Toby Hankin, which will premiere in Colorado next year, as well as a revival of Twins, a duet from the repertory of GMDance. Masson’s work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, Dance/USA(NCCI), Meet the Composer and various private foundations.

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