Monthly Archives: February 2007

UPROOTED: THE KATRINA PROJECT

March 30 & 31, 2007
Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. 

From March 25th thru March 31st, an ensemble of a dozen displaced actors, poets, dancers and musicians from the Gulf Coast will be in San Antonio for a week-long residency hosted by Jump-Start. Under the guidance of John O’Neal, Artistic Director of New Orleans’ Junebug Productions, [...]

W~I~P in February

Wednesday, February 28 at 7:00 p.m.
Admission is $5 regular and $3 for students and senior citizens
No reservations required.

W-I-P is funky fresh for February!
W-I-P is a collaboration between Jump-Start Performance Co. and San
Antonio Dance Umbrella.  It is a supportive laboratory space for
movement-based work that is either in progress or very new, followed
by a facilitated post-performance discussion.
We [...]

OTHERWISE OCCUPIED

Written by Dianne Monroe

Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday at 3:00 p.m.
Pay-what-You-Wish on Sunday, March 11
What is it like to live, love and resist in a contested country? Playwright Dianne Monroe collaborates once again with visual artist Salwa Arnous on updating and reworking this timely and popular play, built out of interviews with women living [...]

FENCES

By Pulitizer prize winning playwright
August Wilson
Directed by Antoinette Winstead
February 9 – 25, 2007

Fences presents a slice-of-life in a black tenement set in the late 1950s through 1965. Troy Maxson is a garbage collector who has taken great pride in keeping his family together and providing for them, while searching for fairness in a society which [...]