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"Touched: Symptoms of Being Human"
In 20 years of creating poignant, death-defying dance theater, Jess Curtis has developed a reputation for work with intense physical commitment, stunning visual imagery and a dramatic language that is both profound and accessible. In June of 2005 he and his company Gravity present the world premiere of their latest international production "Touched: Symptoms of Being Human".
Touch is one of the most basic of human experiences, the physical foundation of human interaction and a ripe metaphor for human society. In "Touched: Symptoms of Being Human", the performers of Jess Curtis/Gravity virtuosically explore the physical and theatrical possibilities of touch; it's ability to extend the body into new dimensions, it's ability to heal and it's potential to destroy.
As with Curtis's award-winning fallen, which explored the physical and metaphorical properties of falling (falling in love, falling asleep, the fall from grace) Touched uses the languages of contemporary dance, theater, acrobatics, live music and performance to trace the literal, cultural, personal and political ramifications of our contact with each other and the world around us.
A Jess Curtis/Gravity production commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with generous support from the Dance: Creation to Performance program, funded by The James Irvine Foundation and administered by Dance/USA; the Cultural Equity Fund of the San Francisco Arts Commission; The National Endowment for the Arts (USA); Nationales Performance Netz (Germany); Fonds Darstellende Kunst (Germany) the Mime Centrum Berlin, the San Francisco International Arts Festival, The Schloss Bröllin Artist-in-Residence Program; the Region of Mecklenburg Vorpommern (Germany); Dance Mission (SF), Dock 11 (Berlin); Gut Stolzenhagen; Lufthansa Airlines; the YBCA Wattis, Artist-in-Residence program; the Fleishhacker Foundation and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
