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Jess Curtis
-- Jess Curtis
View Spark segment on Gravity. Original air date: May 2007. (Running Time: 2:05)
Choreographer Jess Curtis founded Jess Curtis/Gravity in 2000. He's had a hand in creating bodies of work with companies such as San Francisco's Contraband and the Franco-American Circus project Cie Cahin Caha, Cirque Batard. Along the way he has been commissioned to make works across Europe and has won numerous awards.
Spark visits with Curtis as he premieres a work called "Under the Radar" at San Francisco's counterPULSE. "Under the Radar" is a cabaret piece focusing on the issues of visibility, ability and disability and features an international cast of disabled and non-disabled performers.
