Master of Fine Arts candidates Jess Curtis and Nina Galin are about to put their choreographic theses on stage for the public to see.

Curtis, an award-winning San Francisco choreographer, crafted his work in collaboration with an international team of multidisciplinary performers. They included performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Peña, who served as a dramaturgical collaborator.

Galin’s offering is a new music-dance-theater work that explores different senses of “joint”: point of clear articulation in a body; meeting place; collaboration.

AT A GLANCE

WHAT: Master of Fine Arts candidates present choreographic theses, back to back at each performance.

• Dances for Non-Fictional Bodies (excerpt), by Jess Curtis

• Jointedness, by Nina Galin

WHEN: 8 p.m. Feb. 12-13 and 19-20, and 2 p.m. Feb. 21

WHERE: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

TICKETS are available through the Mondavi Center box office: (530) 754-2787
or (866) 754-2787, or mondaviarts.org.