“It’s like they’re all making dances for a fictional body that none of them have,” choreographer Jess Curtis remembers his colleague saying, describing a university dance program he’d just seen. A ...

Jess Curtis championed accessibility in the performing arts for blind and visually impaired people. (Sven Hagolani) Dancer and choreographer Jess Curtis, a champion of accessibility in the performing ...

How do you experience a performance? By seeing it? What if that's not possible? Jess Curtis/Gravity announces the North American premiere of "(in)Visible," a dance/performance dislocating vision from ...

Jess Curtis/Gravity premieres “Under the Radar,” a dance work addressing issues of virtuosity, ability and disability. The presentation features an international cast of disabled and nondisabled ...

What makes Jess Curtis/Gravity's latest dance performance piece about the intersection between dance and disability so refreshing is that the disabled dancers are not merely window dressing but the ...