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 of 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!

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

W-I-P Créme
May 30. 2012
7 p.m.

$10 general admission and $8 for students, seniors and SADU members.
No reservations are necessary.

W-I-P Crème will fill you up with a delicious evening of polished work! We depart from the usual format of laboratory-style performances and feedback to celebrate the best that local and local-area artists have created through our unique and highly regarded process. The program will be followed by a tasty post-show reception of finger foods and the opportunity to meet the performers.

Selected artists are Erik Bosse (film & live performance), SA Dance Fringe (contemporary), Zombie Bazaar (gothic bellydance), Erison Dance Co. (modern) Xavia Perkins (hip-hop/spoken word), and ARTheism (live dance/animation).

W-I-P (Works-In-Progress/Wednesdays-In-Performance) is a long-running collaboration between Jump-Start Performance Co. and San Antonio Dance Umbrella.

W-I-P returns on June 27, 2012 with a special site-specific showcase!

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

The San Antonio Dance Umbrella is funded in part by the Office of Cultural Affairs, the Texas Commission on the Arts and by its members who represent the best in the San Antonio Dance Community.

For more info please call (210) 227-5867 or visit www.jump-start.org!

Windows Series:
Hungry Women

May 4, 2012
8:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.

In a not-so-perfect world ravaged by hatred, war, & global desperation…

Three women, hungry for change, dare to walk outside their feast, fashion and food comfort zones to feed those in need.

Can a cupcake make a difference? Come, witness & taste for yourself.

AND fill out a voters registration card!

Created & Directed by Sandy Dunn
Featuring Pamela Dean Kenny, Kitty Williams & Annele Spector
Music & Sound Design by Paul Harford
Lighting Design by Felice Garcia

Produced by Laurie Dietrich & Dino Foxx

Summer Sparks 2012

Call for Entries

Jump-Start Performance Co. is accepting proposals for participation in Summer Sparks 2012, a festival of original performance work by local artists.

Proposed work should be finished (this is not a developmental showcase), 15 minutes or less playing time, and should never have been presented in San Antonio in finished form.

Performance dates are June 8-9, 2012. Selected pieces may be asked to play one or more of those performance dates. Selected artists may be asked to participate in panel discussions and/or community workshops as well. A small stipend will be paid and you will have access to high-quality documentation materials from the event.

The deadline to submit a completed proposal form and support materials (Resumes, production stills, video clips, reviews, etc.), is May 7, 2012. Please include as full a description of the piece as possible, for marketing purposes. And keep in mind that the structure of the event will best support minimal and/or easily portable technical and scenic elements.

Selected participants will be notified via email on May 11, 2012.

Proposal forms should be sent (and questions addressed) to Jump-Start’s Artistic Director, S.T. Shimi, at shimi@jump-start.org, using the subject header “Summer Sparks 2012 Proposal.”

Click below to download the Project Proposal.

Summer Sparks Project Proposal

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

Featuring: Erica Wilson-Perkins & Erison Dance,  NVC Repetory Dance Ensemble,  Katrina Staniger

April 18, 2010 | 7 p.m.
No reservations are necessary

$5 general admission, $3 student/senior
Cash or check only.

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.

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

The San Antonio Dance Umbrella is funded in part by the Office of Cultural Affairs, the Texas Commission on the Arts and by its members who represent the best in the San Antonio Dance Community.

For well over two decades, Jump-Start Performance Co.’s Arts Education Program has been working with predominately Mexican-American and-African American youth in low-income urban areas, bringing visual, literary & performing arts to about 8,500 students, educators, parents and local residents every year.

Jumping off the Walls
Student Art Show

Opening receptions:
Thursday, April 5, 2012 | 6 -8 p.m.
First Friday*, April 6, 2012 | 6 – 9 p.m.

*Bring your family and come participate in fun art activities led by Jump-Start’s educators as well as pose for fabulous creative photos taken by GlamMugs! Light refreshments will also be served.

Jumping off the Walls features artwork from our students at Bonham Academy, Douglass Elementary, Forbes Elementary, Kelly Elementary, Japhet Elementary, Austin Elementary, Fairweather Lodge, Calderon Westside Boys & Girls Club, and Seton Home for Girls.

The walls of the Jump-Start Art Gallery will come to life with student-created recycled book art, crazy yarn art, fun origami, wild papier-mâché art, colorful Keith Haring inspired transparency art and much more!

FREE. Donations will be graciously accepted for participation in the First Friday art activities. GlamMugs prints will also be for sale for $5. Cash only!

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

March 28, 2012
7pm
No reservations are necessary.

Featuring: Artheism, Alysya Perez, Jacque Salame

$5 general admission, $3 students/seniors
Cash or check only

San Antonio Dance Umbrella
www.sadu.org

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.

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

The San Antonio Dance Umbrella is funded in part by the Office of Cultural Affairs, the Texas Commission on the Arts and by its members who represent the best in the San Antonio Dance Community.

For more info please call (210) 227-5867 or visit www.jump-start.org!

To benefit Jump-Start Performance Co.’s Arts Education Program

Monday, March 19, 2012
7 – 9 p.m.

Getting started: It’s all knit to you!
$30 | Lessons begin at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Includes one hour knitting lesson, knitting starters kit, food & wine

Whether you’ve always wanted to knit or you just need a refresher, this workshop will get your needles clacking in no time! You will learn the basics and get started on a project of your choice.

The Next Steps: You know the basics, now what?
$35 | Lessons begin at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Includes project lessons, patterns for advanced projects, food & wine

You know the basic knit/purl stitches; here is a way to start a project of your choice with help of some veteran knitters. Learn techniques to help you finish your knitted projects so they look hand-made, not home-made. We will cover weaving in ends, picking up stitches, buttonholes, reading patterns, knitting in the round and more. We will have swatches to practice with during the workshop or bring that project you put down and never finished and we’ll work on it together!

To register please email Dino Foxx at dino@jump-start.org by March 18, 2012!
All proceeds benefit Jump-Start’s Arts Education Program!

Painting with a Purpose!
A fundraiser to benefit Jump-Start Performance Co.’s Art Education Program

March 25, 2012
Sunday 3 p.m.?- 5 p.m.

All you have to do is:
- Register for the March 25th Moonlit Cherry Blossoms class online
- Show up on Sunday the 25th by 2:45 p.m. with your favorite adult beverage

We will take care of the rest!

Register Online at:

www.paintingwithatwist.com/sananotnio/calendar

A portion of the proceeds from the class will then be donated to Jump-Start Performance Co.’s Art Education Program.

Painting with a Twist is located in The Alley (formerly Artisans Alley)
555 W. Bitters Road, San Antonio, TX  78216
210-495-7928

Dreamers’ Window
By Billy Muñoz

FREE CAM Event in the front window of Jump-Start!

8:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.

We dream. We go on adventures. Battle zombies. Ghosts are everywhere. We find love. We kill. We lose. We steal. We cry. We succeed…and then…we wake up. Leftover bits float around. Things seem to have happened before. Conversations you thought you had. People you feel that you have met before. The song that you heard in your dream takes awhile to fade away…

Look through the window into the lives of two separate people. They are miles and miles apart but they are connected in their dreams. Only in their dreams. Do they even exist in this awakened world? Watch them dream and see how they put the leftover pieces of those dreams together when they are awake.

Six Degrees of Separation
by John Guare | Directed by Diane Malone

February 10-26, 2012
Friday & Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.

$25 general admission, $20 Senior (65+), Military, SATCO, $10 Students (w/ID)

Six degrees of Separation is a witty, biting, yet ultimately sincere commentary on what drives people: the desire for money, fame, social standing, comfort, and a meaningful human connection.

For tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.classictheatre.org!