Cherella Gessel

DIESEL FW24 - BREAK THE BOX Dump of a dope day at Diesel🚀✨ Including BTS, family portrait gone wrong, angel numbers, selfie, the website that that me gaggiiinnggg, playtime after work 🏎️ —— Creative Director: @glennmartens Photography by @paulkooiker Art Director: Christopher Simmonds Styling: @ursinagysi Hair (on me) : @barber_djirlauw Make-up: @athenapaginton Casting Director: @isabelbush_ Agency: @aplmodelmanagement #diesel #campaign #play #movement #model

WATRA MAMA 🔴 Performed at @boyswntbeboys x @bijlmerparktheater An ode to the entity and sirens of the deep dark sea. Her sensual and fluid movements, bringing concepts to life (conception) and making dreams reality (creation)➿ Tangi. Performance, concept, choreo - Cherella Gessel 🧜🏾‍♀️ 🎥 - @mindlockresidence 📸 - @casperkoster 💇🏾‍♀️ - @toyafiercehairdesign ♟️ - @yazminlacey 🔴 #WatraMama #mamiwata #winti #Ayizan #mamaaisa #yemaya #iemanja #watraindji #mermaid #sirensong

Yoooo this crowdfunding thing is MADNESS! I feel so supported and loved. Thanks so much for your donations, your sweet messages and sharing it with your folks!! 🤍🙏🏾🥰 IT’S UP FOR 1 MONTH ONLY❗️ Yesterday I left Amsterdam to start my journey abroad. …. For me to be stuck in Spain, because of the crazy weather in Barcelona. 🫠 I hope to arrive in Dakar today, my first location. Put a 🔮 in the comments, so I can share my plans & page with you. Thanks for your support. 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 ••• Song: Doechii - Nissan Altima Visuals: a compilation of my body and performance work from the past 1,5 year or so. 📈 #crowdfunding #research #afrospiritual #performanceart

Meet @chellachella ! ❤️‍🔥 They will be performing during BECOMING All About Love on May 22nd in @podiummozaiek ! Cherella Gessel, also known as Chella Chella, is a multidisciplinary performer. They combine text-based theatre as well as physical performance—in theatre and film—with dance, Spoken Word, modeling, styling, hairstyling, and make-up. Cherella always creates from their own frame of reference and personal subjects and interests. For example, YONIVERSE—“A theatrical hip-hop concert for Black, Queer Bitches”—was a solo in which they sought healing from traumas caused by society and conflicts within themselves. Healing is a subject close to their heart and is incorporated into their work as much as possible. In 2020, they received an honourable mention for their participation with YONIVERSE at the Fringe Festival, and in 2021, they received both the 3 Package Deal and the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts, in the Stimulation Prize category. In this performance, through spoken word, Cherella shares about their personal relationships with cis men and how this is constantly evolving as a queer person. We can’t wait to see what they have in store for us! 😍 There will be a NGT (Dutch Sign Language) interpreter present during this edition of BECOMING. Get your tickets now for the LAST edition of BECOMING this season, All About Love, May 22nd at @podiummozaiek ! ✨ #Becoming #Queer #QueerIsMeer #Queer #QueeringYourFridayNight #BlackSilk #PodiumMozaiek #BecomingAllAboutLove #AmsterdamTheater

Sib, you coming? 💦 I’m training my ‘performance muscle’ for after summer…👀 ▫️Friday 15th of May @ A poetic composition by @tha_rainx at @pleintheater [Spoken Word] ▫️ Sunday 17th of May @ A movement-sound dialogue with @ibaaku - curated by @dar_culturalagency at @marres_maastricht [Dance] ▫️ Friday 22nd of May @ A dialogue: All About Love by @ambervineyard x @worldofro at @becoming_community x @podiummozaiek [Theater] ▫️ Thursday 21st of May @ HvA Got Talent at @floor_hva [Judge panel] Later hè! 🙋🏾‍♂️✨🌀 #performance #poetry #dance #theater #multihyphenate

Polyrhythmic freestyle POV: you just had an Talawa Technique intense by @jomecia Made possible by @well_made_productions x @bijlmerparktheater #dans #movement #yanvalou #footwork #contemporary

Such an inspiring week! 🥹😻🤯🥳 • Seeing @erykahbadu 1 block away from my house, by surprise. She got me all the WAAAAYY hyped up 🤯 • The opening of the exhibition at @the_blackarchives with the works of the good sis @itsmunganyende , @zulileblinker and many other amazing artists • Seeing SISTERHOOD by @lazeefuik , with big sis @itsjnm killing her role in it 🤩✨ • Seeing the movie Karmen Geï during Lukubation by @luku.xam . Now I’m in love with a Senegalese Bad B!tch from the 90’s 😍 • A wonderful panel talk and beautiful encounter with @kwasi_darko & @victoradewale_ • Smelling flowers in the concrete jungle • Polegress • Colorful homecooked meals • Conversation with spirit • …And soo much more #spring #bloom #inspiration #alive #reflection

Yo sib! It’s been 7+ months 🥳🥳 I’m officially balls deep innnn✨💪🏾 It has been fun, painful and confronting so far. But the polegress is real! #pole #dance #movement #growth #poledancenation

Not @blxckstage showing me what’s possible with my body..! With ALL bodies! I GAGGED 🤯 I’m so inspired by this manifesto. The stage showing the versatility of us QBIPOC, but then - my current obsession - everything Pole dance. 😍😮‍💨 Thanks so so much @cutiewhippingham for this amazing platform. Sooo cool to see what’s out there and what’s in store for me! Performers shown: Tink - Basjia - AsiaQ - Cutie Whippingham S/O to @jaytheystallion for dancing the night away with me 👯‍♀️😹✨🙋🏾‍♂️ #london #pole #blackstage #queer #bipoc

Throwback to drinking tea with sib @mypensouls in Rio de Janeiro. I made sure the sips were just as small 😮‍💨 Currently: 📍Amsterdam #riodejaneiro #throwback #tea #twa #saturdaynight

MOKUMGEVOEL - in honour of Amsterdam’s 750th year ❌❌❌ 📍@cafesaarein - the oldest Lesbian/Queer café in Amsterdam 🌈✨ Concept & video/photo: @lnaylorperrott Production: @72andsunny_ Styling: @shavonisharlyss Agency: @aplmodelmanagement #dance #queer #sultry #cafe #amsterdam

I feel fit and strong again 🦾🤸🏾‍♂️ After 2 weeks feeling otherwise… Meanwhile, figuring out how I can stand and walk on these 8 inch heels 😝✨ - Building strength at @equalyoga 🥵 - Hair growth 🥰 #coils #afro #athlete #hotyoga #walk