Synapsis

rumblepeg 2007 - jess curtis

Improvisation/Composition/Performance with Jess Curtis

January 30 - February 4

Jess CurtisThis is a great opportunity to work with a strong group of performers and movers in a focused and supportive environment. This is an all-around intensive training, improvisation, composition, performance workshop. A great opportunity to train, build ensemble skills and vocabulary and practice putting everything together in both real time and prepared compositions.

Jess Curtis 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 Curtis has co-created groundbreaking circus works with the Franco-American Circus project Cie Cahin Caha, Cirque Batard; collaborated with the renowned FabrikCompanie in Potsdam, Germany on the award-winning fallen; and been commissioned to create works for companies such as Artblau (Germany), ContactArt (Italy), and Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company (England.) He founded Jess Curtis/Gravity in 2000 as a research and development vehicle for very live performance, With Gravity he has created three full-evening performance works, No Place Like Home (2000), fallen (2001), and Touched: Symptoms of Being Human (2005). Jess Curtis’ work has received high critical acclaim.

$225-$450 sliding scale
For more information, email rumblepeg(at)synapsiswarehouse(dot)org
or call Tanya Stotsky 707-407-7566

Intensive will take place at:
Synapsis Performance and Art Space
47A West Third Street
Eureka, California