Jess Curtis is living and working in San Francisco and Berlin and has created a body of work ranging from the underground extremes of Mission District Warehouses with Contraband (1985-1994) to the formal refinement of European State Theaters with Jess Curtis/Gravity (2000-present).

Along the way he has co-created ground breaking circus works with the Franco-American Circus project Cie Cahin Caha, Cirque Batard; and been commissioned to create works for companies such as FabrikCompanie in Germany, Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company England, ContactArt in Italy and Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company in Ireland.

He founded Jess Curtis/Gravity in 2000 as a research and development vehicle for very live performance, With Gravity he has created four full-evening performance works, No Place Like Home (2000), fallen (2001), Touched: Symptoms of Being Human (2005) and Under the Radar (2007) and a variety of smaller repertory works, and site specific installations. 

Mr. Curtis’ work has received awards and support from (among others) the NEA, Germany’s Hauptstadtkulturfonds,  the San Francisco Arts Commission, SF’s Grants for the Arts, and the Creative Work Fund (2007), He has received three Izzies (Isadora Duncan Dance Awards). In 2002 he received a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for “fallen”.