Summer Sparks New Works Festival
June 8-9, 2012
Friday & Saturday at 8 p.m.
At The Sterling Houston Theater at Jump-Start in the Blue Star Arts Complex
$10 general admission.
The first annual Summer Sparks New Works Festival is a fun two-day exploration of new works by local and regional artists that aims to become an important showcase for theater groups, dancers and performers in South Texas.
This unique festival will host the world premiere of 13 new pieces and will showcase the work of over 38 performers during two full evenings of back-to-back 10-20 minute short performances.
All types of performance will be presented, including drama, comedy, live animation, modern dance, olfactory performance art, documentary-style storytelling, and conceptual burlesque.
Summer Sparks’ 38 plus performers include: Topher Sipes & Samantha Beasley of ARTheism, Atta Girl Productions, Aaron Aguilar of Proxy Theater Company, S.T. Shimi & Erik Bosse, Amanda Silva, Lisa Suárez, Annele Spector, Erica Wilson-Perkins and Erison Dance, Marisela Barrera & Laura Varela, Anna de Luna, Aaron Richmond-Havel, Dino Foxx, Christina Casella & Sara Means and many more!
Subjects and settings differ wildly: A Mad-Max-styled sci-fi border story of drug runners, gangs and a mysterious chupacabra; a summer tale of college flirtation staged as a keen dance number; physical comedy about online-dating, gay sex and the art of the threesome; sultry multimedia burlesque; conceptual live animation with structured improvisational movement; personal testimony of abortion and counter-protests of Planned Parenthood protesters; and the unsophisticated and sometimes comedic experiences of gender, religion and the everyday life in the Middle East as seen through the eyes of a naïve yet eager tourist.
“Summer Sparks was imagined as a showcase of new and exciting work, never seen in San Antonio before, created by individual Jump-Start company members as well as some of the city’s most talented and interesting artists,” said Artistic Director S.T. Shimi.
Festival Schedule
06.08.12
ARTheism (Topher Sipes & Samantha Beasley)
Atta Girl Productions
Aaron Aguilar of Proxy Theater Company
S.T. Shimi & Erik Bosse
Amanda Silva
Lisa Suárez
Annele Spector
06.09.12
Atta Girl Productions
Aaron Aguilar of Proxy Theater Company
Erison Dance (Erica Wilson-Perkins)
Marisela Barrera & Laura Varela
Anna de Luna
Aaron Richmond-Havel
Dino Foxx
Christina Casella & Sara Means
Jump-Start Performance Co. is generously supported by the City of San Antonio’s Office of Cultural Affairs, Kronkosky Charitable Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a grant from the Ruth Lang Charitable Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and theFund.
For more info or to purchase tickets please call (210) 227-5867! Check back regularly for updates to the festival schedule!
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