by Team CWF | Mar 14, 2024 | News
The Creative Work Fund notes with great sadness the sudden passing of Jess Curtis, who was awarded three Creative Work Fund grants to collaborate with Counterpulse (2006), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2010), and Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired...
by Team CWF | Oct 31, 2022 | 2022, News
The Creative Work Fund is pleased to award 15 new grants to Greater Bay Area artists collaborating with nonprofit organizations to develop new works of theater, traditional art, dance, poetry, arts activism and more. In the face of ongoing hardship and COVID-19,...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 7, 2010 | 2010, Performing Arts
Choreographer Jess Curtis collaborating with performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) to create a performance-installation, Dances for Non/Fictional Bodies. Physically and conceptually, the work deconstructed...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 21, 2006 | 2006, Performing Arts
CounterPULSE collaborating with Jess Curtis and his company Gravity and with dancers with and without disabilities to create, Under the Radar, a study in the physical limitations and abilities of a range of very different performers, using the vocabularies of...