Four people sit onstage, one with a cane. The lighting is red, and a silvery set piece seems to swirl behind them.

Exploring How Performance is Experienced

Jess Curtis, an award-winning choreographer, performer, and scholar based in San Francisco and Berlin, shares how his career took a turn when he accepted a job in an interdisciplinary nouveau cirque company in France, and how he later established himself in Berlin while still running his company Jess Curtis/Gravity in the Bay Area.

February 10, 2022 | Read Article

Shannon leans to the side with one arm reaching up and one arm reaching down. She is wearing a white bra and shorts.

Self Practice: Self Exploration

Berlin-based contemporary dancer Shannon Leypoldt describes her recent improvisatory self practice and some methods she found to get into a state of flow.

December 20, 2021 | Read Article

Decentering Sight through Dance

Choreographer Jess Curtis' new work "(in)Visible" seeks to dislocate vision from the center of the experience of dance. He and his collaborators Sophia Neises and Tiffany Taylor discuss how the piece is functionally and artistically accessible for people with vision impairments.

September 30, 2019 | Read Article

Movement Activism

An Interview with Diana Thielen Diana Thielen, based in Berlin, Germany, is a dancer/performer, teacher of the Axis Syllabus, dedicated feminist, and student of education and gender studies. In addition to teaching and performing, she runs the blog movementactivism.com, where she writes about her intersectional inquiry and fascination with the […]

January 8, 2018 | Read Article

Doing The Twist

Editorial Note: Each August for the past five years, I’ve asked dance artists at different points in their careers what “making it” means to them. Please join us this month in looking at what “making it” means as a dancer, artist and human. BY DAISY PHILLIPS The trouble with “making it,” in my […]

August 10, 2017 | Read Article