Joyce Soho Presents Multi-Media Performance Piece, 11/10 - 13

Gesel Mason Performance Projects returns to Joyce SoHo from November 10-13 with the New York premiere of the multi-media performance piece, Women, Sex, and Desire: Sometimes You Feel Like a Ho, Sometimes You Don't. Combining dance, personal stories, and video imagery, this provocative and amusing work investigates how women navigate sex, desire, and choice and illuminates the struggles and pleasures we encounter as sexual beings.

Challenging stereotypes, assumptions and conventional wisdom about sexual behavior, Gesel Mason used her community-based participatory process to engage a cross-section of women including sex workers, disadvantaged youth, university students, mature women, and LGBT communities to voice their thoughts and opinions. Focus groups, interviews, identity workshops, and web logs provide narrative for the choreography and act as a vehicle to encourage community dialogue that exposes our prejudices, expectations, and beliefs. By combining real stories, real people, pop culture, humor, and a diverse movement vocabulary from postmodern, to hip hop, to pole dancing, Women, Sex and Desire is at once entertaining, insightful, honest, and risqué.

Gesel Mason Performance Projects will perform at Joyce SoHo from November 10-13, Thursday through Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 2:30pm. Running time is 80 minutes. A pre-show starts approximately a half hour prior to performance and each performance is followed by a discussion. The performance contains nudity. After Hours @ Joyce SoHo, a free post-performance Q&A and refreshments with the artists, will follow the November 11th performance.

Tickets are $15. Joyce SoHo's onsite box office is only open one half-hour prior to performance time to sell tickets exclusively for that performance. Tickets may also be purchased online at joyce.org (no service fees!), via JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800 or in person at The Joyce Theater at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street Mon-Sun, 12 noon-6pm. On days when there are performances, The Joyce Theater's box office is open for advance sales up to one hour prior to Joyce curtain times and up to three hours prior to Joyce SoHo curtain times. The Joyce Theater's box office is closed on major holidays. Joyce SoHo's address is 155 Mercer Street, between Houston and Prince Streets.

About the artist:
Gesel Mason Performance Projects creates dance theater works that are "socially relevant," "emotionally resonant," and "impressively executed." (Washington Post). Artistic Director Gesel Mason uses a distinctive blend of dance, theater, storytelling and humor to bring visibility to voices unheard, situations neglected, and perspectives considered taboo. Mason has performed nationally and internationally with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, Repertory Dance Theatre of Utah, Jack Luminski of Silesian Dance Theatre, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and Ralph Lemon. She was selected Emerging Choreographer by the Bates Dance Festival in 2000, received two Metro DC Dance Awards for her piece No Boundaries, and was granted a 2007 Millennium Stage Local Dance Commissioning Project from The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. For more information, please visit gmasonprojects.com

The creation of Joyce SoHo was made possible by the magnanimous support of the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust. Joyce SoHo is generously supported by Alphawood Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, First Republic Bank, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Open Society Foundations and the Fund for the City of New York, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation.

Lead support has been provided by The New York Community Trust. Special support has been provided by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Joyce SoHo is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

 

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