No Boundaries - Introduction

After collecting more than seven decades of choreographic vision in her body, Gesel Mason Performance Projects in partnership with 651 ARTS present No Boundaries as a digital humanities archive, a new and innovative platform to disseminate, access, and interact with the legacies of African American choreographers. More than a documentation of choreography, the dance is a point of entry to understanding a distinctly African American theme of resilience in spite of a history of silencing and erasure of African American cultural contributions. By expanding the genre of Black dance and interrupting the systematic erasure of names lost to the archive, No Boundaries reveals the tenacity of resilience and the diversity of Black performance.