Windows: Boom Box Car

October 4, 2011 – 11:22 am

Boom Box Car
Created by Manuel “Cros” Esquivel

October 7, 2011
9 pm & 10 pm

Our popular Windows Series is back! Watch one-of-a-kind performance installations staged in our front window from the alley in front of the theater. To kick off the season, Jump-Start Performance Co. is linking up with long-time friend and associate artist Manuel “Cros” Esquivel to bring you a Window like you’ve never seen before.

See Boom Box Car and step into the world of an artist who risks everything to transcend the limitations of place… sending his art out, by rail, to cities he’ll never see. An original hip-hop soundscape sets the tone as we spy on something that always and only happens in secret… one of the oldest and most dangerous sub-genres of hip-hop culture. A masterpiece unfolds as our artist rushes to complete his work before being discovered by those who guard the rusted metal boxes that, for him, are a blank canvas… and an opportunity…

When all you want the world to know is that you were here, you are willing to risk life, limb and freedom to leave your mark.

FREE

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September W-I-P

September 20, 2011 – 1:10 pm

W-I-P
Works-In-Progress/Wednesdays-In-Performance

Wednesday, September 28, 2011
7 p.m.
$5 general admission, $3 students and seniors
No reservations are necessary

Artists:

Erik Bosse
Multi-Media/Live Performance

Dr. Sreedhara
CLassical Indian Dance

Alamotion Too
Contemporary dance

W-I-P (Works-In-Progress/Wednesdays-In-Performance) is a long-running 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.

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Noche de Estrellas: Dia de los Muertos Ball

September 13, 2011 – 3:34 pm


Rene Roberts presents…

Noche de Estrellas
Dia de los Muertos Ball

November 2, 2011
7 – 11 p.m.

$75 Table Seating
$45 General Admission

An adult social dance party benefiting Jump-Start Performance Co. and the San Antonio AIDS Foundation. Guests are asked to arrive in skeleton-face & Dia de los Muertos Attire and stay for a fabulous show and post-show dancing to the beats of one of San Antonio’s hottest DJs!

Hosted by Rene Roberts, featuring Lady Tiffany, Tencha la Jefa and Dino Foxx!

Call 210-227-JUMP to purchase your tickets today!

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STRANGER – an international theatrical collaboration

September 13, 2011 – 1:24 pm

Click the photo above to watch our beautiful appeal video and to support our wonderful theatrical collaboration!

STRANGER – an international theatrical collaboration

As part of its 2011-12 theatrical season, San Antonio’s Jump-Start Performance Co. will collaborate with Divadlo z Pasáže (Theatre from the Passage)—an ensemble of profoundly mentally challenged performers from the Slovak Republic—on an original performance piece. The play, Stranger, will explore what it means to experience sudden freedom, echoing the Slovak experience following the fall of the Soviet bloc. The piece uses the metaphor of an unexpected guest’s arrival into the lives of a group of people stuck in limbo, freeing them for their past constraints. How does sudden freedom affect one’s attitudes and actions? What is normal and what is strange? The play will run November 18-19, 2011 at the Sterling Houston Theatre in San Antonio and November 20, 2011 at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre in Austin, sponsored by VSA Texas, the state organization for arts and disability.

Stranger marks the second time Jump-Start and Divadlo z Pasáže have worked together. In 2009, the organizations partnered to present a United States tour of Divadlo z Pasáže’s original play, Protected Territory, to Cedar Rapids, IA, San Antonio and New York City. Inspired by these incredibly gifted performers, the Jump-Start company then made plans to collaborate with Divadlo z Pasáže on a new work that includes artists from both companies.

This is an incredible opportunity – artistically and culturally – for both companies. However, an international collaboration of this scale is challenging and expensive. Artists involved in the production will be paid a fair wage for their creative work. That’s where you come in. We are looking to raise $2,500 to fund this very ambitious and exciting project and we need your help to do it. Every dollar is greatly appreciated, and there are some great rewards for those who help out.

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What Comes Out of Chittlins

August 29, 2011 – 6:34 pm

What Comes Out of Chittlins

By Kitty Williams
Directed by Steve Bailey
Dramaturgy by Paul Bonin-Rodriguez

September 16-17, 23-24, 30-Oct 1st 2011
Friday and Saturday at 8p.m.
Join us for a champagne toast after the show on Sept 16!

Miss Charlene Hughes is back with further ruminations about her love/hate relationship with those “never-clean-enough” chittlins. In this sequel to The Great Chittlin Debate, she is joined by a cast of characters including the inventor of the chittlin stew, her great-great-great grandfather, and the ever-judging Reverend DK, as they traverse the intersection of comedy, race and eatin’ higher up on the hog.

Performers: Kitty Williams, Pamela Dean Kenny, Chuck Squier & SkuDr Jones.

Opening Weekend: $12 general admission, $10 students & seniors
Final Two Weekends: $15 general admission, $12 students & seniors

Photos by Troy Wise.

Jump-Start Performance Co. is generously supported by Office of Cultural Affairs, City of San Antonio, Kronkosky Charitable Foundation, a grant from the Ruth Lang Charitable Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and theFund.

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The 2011-12 Jump-Start Performance Co. Season!

August 19, 2011 – 3:55 pm

The 2011-12 Jump-Start Performance Co. Season

Welcome to our 2011-12 season! We are excited to share our mix of returning favorites, brand-new works and social events with a theatrical twist. Take a walk on the fantastical side with fire-eating carpa performers, sexy Sumerian goddesses and charming Slovakian visitors. And if you missed (or had a great time at) Lisa Suárez’ amazing play I’ll Remember for You or Alicia Fernandez’ Big, Bad & Beautiful, you’ve got a chance to see them again. We make it easy for you this season with longer runs, lower prices for opening weekends and our eclectic, accessible programming. Keep checking back regularly because we will be updating our listing with more details and extra events all year long. See you at the theater!

- S.T. Shimi, Artistic Director

What Comes Out of Chittlins
Written and performed by Kitty Williams
Directed by Steve Bailey
September 16-17, 23-24, 30-Oct 1st 2011
Friday and Saturday at 8p.m.

Miss Charlene Hughes is back with further ruminations about her love/hate relationship with those “never-clean-enough” chittlins. In this sequel to The Great Chittlin Debate, she is joined by a cast of characters including the inventor of the chittlin stew, her great-great-great grandfather, and the ever-judging Reverend DK, as they traverse the intersection of comedy, race and eatin’ higher up on the hog.

Featuring Kitty Williams, Pamela Dean Kenny, Chuck Squier & SkuDr Jones.
Opening Weekend: $12 general admission, $10 students & seniors
Final Two Weekends: $15 general admission, $12 students & seniors

Día de los Muertos Ball
Presented by Rene Roberts
November 2, 2011
Wednesday at 7p.m.

An adult social dance-party fundraiser benefiting Jump-Start Performance Co. and the San Antonio AIDS foundation. Special entertainment by local talent. Guests are asked to arrive in costume with skeleton face.

$75 Table Seating
$45 General

Stranger
Written and performed by Divadlo z Pasáže & Jump-Start Performance Co.
Directed by Viera Dubacova
November 18-19, 2011 at the Sterling Houston Theater @ Jump-Start
November 20, 2011 @ Salvage Vanguard in Austin
Friday – Sunday at 7p.m.

Jump-Start Performance Co. and Divadlo z Pasáže (an ensemble of profoundly mentally challenged performers from Slovakia) will collaborate on a new joint production. The play explores the feeling of being marginalized in society and what it means to experience sudden freedom, echoing the Slovak experience following the fall of the Soviet bloc. The piece uses the metaphor of the unexpected arrival of a “guest” into the lives of a group of people stuck in a sort of limbo, freeing them from their past constraints. How does sudden freedom affect their attitudes and actions? What is normal and what is strange?
$15 general admission, $12 students & seniors in San Antonio
Ticket information for the Austin show: www.salvagevanguard.org

Performance Party 27
January 7, 2012
Saturday at 7p.m.
(Various Artists)
Our annual marathon of entertaining acts from the Company & community artists.
$10 Suggested Donation

Big, Bad and Beautiful: Still Hungry
Written by Alicia Fernandez
Presented by Daddy’s Girl Productions
January 20-22, 27-29, 2012
Friday and Saturday at 8p.m., Sunday at 3p.m.

A touching, hilarious tribute to women of size. One of our most popular shows will be performed bigger and badder than ever in memory of visionary/creator Alicia Fernandez.
Opening Weekend: $12 general admission, $10 students & seniors
Second Weekend: $15 general admission, $12 students & seniors

I’ll Remember for You
Written by Lisa Suárez
Directed by Laurie Dietrich
March 9-11, 16-18, 23-25, 2012
Friday & Saturday 8p.m., Sunday 3p.m.

Back by popular demand! This funny, sad and courageously honest look at Suárez’ experiences as the primary caregiver for her mother with Alzheimer’s was listed as one of San Antonio’s Best of 2010 on Stage by the San Antonio Express News.
Featuring Lisa Suárez and Veronica Rogers.
Opening Weekend: $12 general admission, $10 students & seniors
Final Two Weekends: $15 general admission, $12 students & seniors

NEW WORKS FEST
June 8-9, 15-16 2012
(Various Artists; more details TBA)

In the spirit of Short Sparks, New Moves and Electric Performance Lab, Jump-Start invites you to a mini-festival of short new pieces by a rotating line-up of Company and selected community artists. Anything and everything from multi-media experiments, improvised dance pieces, staged stories and possibly some audience participation. Come and be surprised, charmed and inspired!

Hetaerae/A Carpa, Maybe
Written by Laurie Dietrich/Billy Muñoz
September 14-15, 21-22, 28-29, 2012
All shows 8p.m.

A double-bill of new works about “entertainers” – who they are, why they are, and the passion (and price) of “show-biz”.

Hetaerae (Dietrich): When the curtain rises and the lights come on, who do you see onstage? Are they stereotypes or archetypes, goddesses or whores? How do they serve your needs? From Sumerian goddesses to Greek priestesses to modern-day sex workers & stage performers, Hetaerae uses ritual theatre, live music & other experimental forms to explore performance and voyeurism on a whole new level.

A Carpa, Maybe (Muñoz): El Payaso, an old performer, tells the story of the downfall of a carpa, along with the eccentric denizens who populated it: A controlling ringmaster, a gentle mind reader, manipulative triplet acrobats, a strong man, and a captured mermaid.
Opening Weekend: $12 general admission, $10 students & seniors
Final Two Weekends: $15 general admission, $12 students & seniors

Windows Series
Produced by Laurie Dietrich & Dino Foxx; featuring various artists.
Performance times TBA
Free!
This popular series of free, First Friday performances returns to grace the front window at Jump-Start with short, visually-rich, diverse performance work.
October 7, 2011
December 2, 2011
March 2, 2012
May 4, 2012

W-I-P
Produced by S.T. Shimi & Amber Ortega-Pérez; featuring various artists.
All performances at 7p.m.
$5 general admission, $3 students & seniors
An eclectic monthly lab space for new, in-progress dance and movement-based performance works, accompanied by a facilitated post-performance discussion.
September 28, 2011
November 9, 2011
December 21, 2011
January 11, 2012
February 1, 2012
March 28, 2012
April 18, 2012
June 27, 2012

W-I-P Créme
May 30, 2012
Wednesday at 7p.m.
$10 general admission, $8 students and seniors

This one-night event showcases the best new works from the W-I-P 2011-12 season.

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Lorca

August 2, 2011 – 12:26 pm

Acclaimed local vocalist-actor-playwright José Rubén De León returns to the Sterling Houston Theater at Jump-Start for his wildly popular show featuring the works of Spanish writer Federico García Lorca.

LORCA
August 19 – 21, 2011
Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.

LORCA is one-man show about the life and work of one of Spain’s most celebrated writers, Federico García Lorca. Lorca, familiar to theater audiences worldwide for his plays, such as “La Casa de Bernarda Alba” and “Bodas de Sangre”, was also an accomplished poet, pianist, accompanist and composer. This show has toured extensively through Texas, Kentucky and California. This revival also honors the 75th anniversary of Lorca’s death.

$15 general admission and $12 for students and seniors, $10 for groups of 10 or more.

For more information or to purchase tickets, please call 210-227-JUMP (5867).

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LA LUZ: En los Tiempos de la Oscuridad

July 7, 2011 – 12:38 pm

LA LUZ: En los Tiempos de la Oscuridad
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 7 p.m.

$25 for general admission and $50 for table seating (including drinks)

Luz is another word for love, illumination, clarity and a higher self. In this event, we will rise up above our smallness and transform, choosing love over terror and acting in light. The Macondo Writers’ Workshop presents a special Wednesday night performance by renowned writers Julia Alvarez, Helena María Viramontes, and Manuel Muñoz, with additional performances by musician David Garza from Austin, Jump-Start Performance Co., dancer S.T. Shimi, and video by Eric Bosse. Hosted by Sandra Cisneros.

To purchase tickets for “LA LUZ”, please call (210) 227-5867 or visit www.jump-start.org or www.macondofoundation.org for more info!

Jump-Start Performance Co. is generously supported by Office of Cultural Affairs, City of San Antonio, Kronkosky Charitable Foundation, and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

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Site-specific W-I-P

June 22, 2011 – 12:29 pm


Jump-Start Performance Co. & the San Antonio Dance Umbrella present:

Site-Specific W-I-P
Wednesdays-in-Performance/Works-in-Progress
June 29, 2011
7 p.m.

At The Sterling Houston Theater at Jump-Start in the Blue Star Arts Complex
$5 general admission and $3 for students and senior citizens.
No reservations are necessary.

W-I-P (Works-In-Progress/Wednesdays-In-Performance) is a long-running collaboration between Jump-Start Performance Co. and San Antonio Dance Umbrella. For the June W-I-P, audience members will meet in the lobby and will then be directed to travel from one site in the Complex to another to view the specially commissioned pieces. We will then return to the theater for brief post-show discussions with all the artists.

This month’s W-I-P will feature Dino Foxx, Natalie Goodnow & Movimiento Cihuatl.

W-I-P then takes a break for two months and returns with all-new programming in September!

Jump-Start Performance Co. is funded in part by grants from The Department of Arts and Cultural Affairs, City of San Antonio, The Texas Commission on the Arts, and The National Endowment of the Arts.

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The Cooking Show con Karimi y Comrades: ¡Viva la Vegetable!

June 9, 2011 – 4:34 pm

TEST KITCHEN
A fun, free First Friday Preview!
Brought to you by the Diabetes of Democracy Project
First Friday, July 1 starting at 8 pm
Donations encouraged

Stop by to sample some delicious “bueno-pa-ti” treats at the Jump-Start al fresco station on First Friday!

VIVA LA VEGETABLE
Saturday, July 2 at 8 pm
Admission $50 & $25

A special fundraising veggie-licious community-dinner-style episode of THE COOKING SHOW Con Karimi y Comarades featuring los veggie-tastic recipes y talento of some of Jump-Start’s finest with special guest Jesse Borrego. The Cooking Show is a live interactive cooking performance for your heart, mind, stomach and funny bone hosted by nationally renowned Iranian-Guatemalan cook, Mero Cocinero Karimi!

Includes a full-blown sit-down community dinner featuring vegetarian fare from Whole Foods Market, Central Market and Green Vegetarian Cuisine!

To purchase your tickets please call 210-227-JUMP (5867).

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