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Jess Curtis has created a body of work ranging from the underground extremes of Mission District Warehouses with Contraband and CORE (1985-1998) to the formal refinement and exuberance of European State Theaters and Circus Tents with Compagnie Cahin-Caha and Jess Curtis/Gravity (1998-present). Along the way Mr. Curtis has collaborated with the renowned FabrikCompanie in Potsdam, Germany to create the award-winning fallen; and been commissioned to create works for companies such as Artblau in Germany, ContactArt in Milan, Italy, Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company in England, and Croi Glan Integrated Dance in Ireland. In 2008 Curtis and Gravity received three Isadora Duncan Dance awards for Under the Radar in the categories of “Choreography” “Music/Text” and “Company Performance,” bringing to a total of six the “Izzies” that Curtis and Gravity have received. In August 2002 Curtis received a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for fallen, which went on to tour to over 40 cities in 9 countries. He also teaches Dance, Contact Improvisation, and Interdisciplinary Performance throughout the US and Europe and has been a visiting professor at UC Berkeley and the University of the Arts in Berlin.
with Contraband
Evol
Religare
The Invisible War
Oracle
Mira Cycle 1
Mandala
Interview (1994)
Sex and Gravity (1994)
not a prayer (1994)
atrophy (1998)
Ice/Car/Cage (1998)
with Core
Psychic Driveby
Entertainment for the Apocalypse
with Cahin-Caha (Cirque Batard)
Chien Cru (raWdoG) (1998)
Other Projects directed and choreographed
Kept (1995)
Trespass Knot (1995)
Theater of Cruelty (1996)
