Ella-Gabriel Mason (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist obsessed with embodiment, community, and reinvention. Trained as a dancer and choreographer, they also work with video, text, and installation. Mason works in spiral time, revisiting themes of gender, animality, Jewish Diasporism, sexuality, trauma, and collectivity from new contexts and with new collaborators.

 Their performance work has been presented in Pittsburgh at the New Hazlett Theater, Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, and Carnegie Stage; in NYC at WOW! Cafe Theater, BAAD!, and wild project; in Philadelphia at vox populi and the Cannonball Festival. Mason has received grants from the Heinz Endowments, PA Council on the Arts, the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, and the Leeway Foundation. 

Their research has been presented at conferences by the National Dance Education Organization, the Pennsylvania Dance Education Organization,  the Collegium for African Diasporic Dance, and Dance/USA. They have a chapter in the Bloomsbury anthology “Sex On Stage: Performing the Body Politic,” edited by Lynn Sally and Alison J. Carr.

 In addition to their work as a creator, performer, and teacher, Mason is a licensed massage therapist specializing in myofascial and trauma-sensitive bodywork.