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Perhaps in the wake of the Great Texas Freeze, the only word you can associate with “burst” is “pipes.”
Gesel Mason feels your pain – the polar vortex did a number on her plumbing, too. But that kind of winter catastrophe was far from the choreographer’s mind when she titled her latest project
burst! Gesel Mason (Photo by Enoch Chan)
Last fall, as the work was taking shape during her Texas Performing Arts/Fusebox Festival residency, Mason was thinking of the word’s many other associations: a burst of speed, of color, of laughter; bursting into song, into tears, into flames; hearts bursting with pride; flowers bursting into spring. At the time, the closest she came to “pipes” was in considering the word’s sense of rupture, of disruption, because that captured the essence of 2020, and that was part of what this work was meant to explore: how we respond to the disruptions in our lives. What do we hold on to, and what do we let go of?