THE WINDOWS
4 x 4 WATCH
Publicly Available Knowledge, created by Daniel Jackson
First Friday, October 3, 2008 at 9:00 p.m
This popular site-specific series based on an original concept by Kim Corbin and Sandra Dunn returns with brand-new works in the front windows of Jump-Start Theater. This season, four different Jump-Start artists create one-night only performance/multi-media installations that are meant to be viewed from outside the theater.

PUBLICLY AVAILABLE KNOWLEDGE combines real-time audio from LiveJournal entries on the internet with video of electronic billboards from around the San Antonio area to create a kaleidoscope of extravagant and poignant beauty. The artist will be inviting viewers to comment on the work on-site…

7 p.m
$5 general, $3 students & seniors
No reservations required

Welcome back San Antonio’s longest-running opportunity to view fresh new work! The September W-I-P will feature work by SpareWorks (modern dance), Doyle Avant (performance art/theatre) and Michelle Angulo (Latin dance).

W-I-P (Works-In-Progress/Wednesdays-In-Performance) is a collaboration between Jump-Start Performance Co. and San Antonio Dance Umbrella.  It is a monthly lab space for new, in-progress dance and other movement-based performance works accompanied by a facilitated post-performance discussion. W-I-P is known for its eclecticism: modern dancers, belly dancers and performance artists have performed in the same evening and been inspired by each other, as well as expanding the audience’s perception of performance. It’s a great opportunity to view the creative process up close and personal as well as a chance to participate by having informal conversations with the artists themselves.

Tickets are $12 general and $9 for students and seniors.  Groups of ten or more are $7 per person. Jump-Start members receive a 50% discount.  Call 210-227-JUMP (5867) for reservations.

Finding Love in Wartime is an original movement performance piece set to poems of love, war and personal struggles. Audience members will travel through the theater, inside and out, on an emotional journey. Performed by Monessa Esquivel, Dino Foxx, Robert Rehm, S.T. Shimi, Lisa Suarez and Kitty Williams. Lighting design by Billy Muñoz and original sound design by Paul Harford.

The double bill will also feature cast member & poet-activist Dino Foxx’s solo work, Memoirs of a Joto, PART 1. Set to haunting iconic images and music, Foxx will explore themes of family (dis)unity, ethnic bonds & divisions, assimilation & displacement, sexuality & love. Both productions are part of the Electric Performance Lab, a program designed to nurture new company works. Audiences will fill out surveys and are invited to stay for post-show discussions

ONLY TWO PERFORMANCES:

September 6 & 7, 2008
Saturday and Sunday at 8:00 p.m.

A play by San Antonio playwright Gregg Barrios about the short-lived but intense relationship between playwright Tennessee Williams and south Texan Pancho Rodriguez.  They met on the Texas-Mexico border in 1946 when Williams was returning from a trip to Mexico.  Pancho and Williams lived in the French Quarter of New Orleans together. Williams was writing “A Streetcar Named Desire” during this period, and used his relationship with the volatile Pancho as a model for the character of Stanley Kowalski and his relationship with both Blanche and Stella.  In 1947, Pancho was replaced in Williams’ affections by Frank Merlo, but they maintained contact until the playwright’s death in 1983. Co-commissioned with the Classic Theatre of San Antonio.

Playwright Gregg Barrios has discovered previously unknown correspondence between Williams and Pancho, some of which is included in the play, and received pictures from Pancho and his brother in New Orleans.  Barrios chose the name of the play from the fact that  Williams dubbed their home together “Rancho Pancho,” wherever they happened to be living.

Directed by Diane Malone. Cast includes Benny Briseno as Pancho, Rick Frederick as Tennessee Williams, Anna Gangai as Carson McCullers, and Annella Keys as Margo Jones.

Ticket prices are $12 general admission, $9 students, military & seniors.
Groups of ten or more are $7 per person.
Jump-Start members receive a 50% discount on tickets. Please call 210-227-JUMP (5867) to make reservations.

**This production contains strong language, nudity and adult content, and is not suitable for children.**

Dates: July 11, 2008 to July 27, 2008
Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening shows at 8 pm
Sunday Matinee at 4 pm

General Admission $18
Discounts for Military and Students $15
Seniors $13

SATCO and ATAC members $10

Cash or Check ONLY
Just $10 for everyone on Thursday evenings!

For more information call (210) 656-0349
or visit THE RENAISSANCE GUILD HERE

If you like the film “Kingdom Come,” you’ll love the play it’s based on…

In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and always hilarious. Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves together for their father’s funeral, the Turpin’s other problems keep overshadowing the solemn occasion: Firstborn Ray-Bud drinks himself silly as the funeral bills mount; Junior, the younger son, is juggling financial ruin, a pack of no-neck monster kids, and a wife who suspects him of infidelity in the family car; their spinster sister, Delightful, copes with death as she does life, by devouring junk food; and all the neighbors add more than two cents. As the situation becomes fraught with mishap, Ray-Bud says to his long-suffering wife, “When I die, don’t tell nobody. Just bury me in the backyard and tell everybody I left you.” Amidst the chaos, the Turpins turn for comfort to their friends and neighbors, an eccentric community of misfits who just manage to pull together and help each other through their hours of need, and finally, the funeral.

“Women’s Insights: The Dual Nature of the Female Soul” is an art project by Raquel Beechner dealing with the four seasons of a woman’s life focusing on the way women feel, and the way women instinctually live their life cycles in their own unique and creative way.

The live performance piece that accompanies this exhibition will consist of writings and drawings that bring out the story of the tamed and unbridled woman archetype behind the visual images she creates. The writings were based on many interviews of women of all ages throughout the nation. Their collective voice is narrated as the artist dances on sand while drawing the symbols present within her art.

Meet us in the lobby and travel around the Complex to view dance and performance art created for surprising locations outside our theatre.Then come back inside with us for an opportunity to discuss what you experienced with the artists. Site-specific W-I-P will feature work by Deborah Keller-Rihn with Dr. Sreedhara (Mandala installation and dance), Cindy Cash & Shawna Mann (Tribal belly dance fusion) and Billy Munoz (installation performance art).