W-I-P (Works-in-Progress/Wednesdays-in-Performance)
January 27
February 24
March 31
April 28
June 30
7 p.m.
$5, $3
No reservations required.
The popular monthly dance/performance lab (in collaboration with San Antonio Dance Umbrella) returns with fresh and eclectic new work followed by a facilitated post-performance talkback. A cool mid-week opportunity to support local work and artists!
W-I-P Creme
Wednesday, May 26th at 7p.m
Admission is $10 regular and $8 for students and senior citizens. No reservations required.
Dive into a delicious celebration of new work!
WIP Crème will feature 8 artists performing short works that range from theatre to ballet to hip-hop, amongst other genres. It showcases favourite artists from the past season of W-I-P and is a pure celebration of completed work. It will be followed by a tasty reception with wine and pastries.
PERFORMANCE PARTY 25
Saturday, January 9, 2009
Doors open at 6:30 p.m./ Show at 7 p.m.
$5 suggested donation; More happily accepted.
Our annual Performance Party is a fundraiser benefiting Jump-Start’s innovative and original artistic programming. It is a signature event for Jump-Start and San Antonio. Come for all of it or stay for some! Come celebrate 25 years of Jump-Start history! There will be something for everyone: season previews, big groups, solo performers, dance, live music, performance art, comedy, video, fire-eating, glamour, and the absurd!
REQUEST CONCERT
Winter/Spring
Performance Times & Spaces to be announced soon!
Request Concert was originally staged in 1985 as Jump-Start Performance Co.’s first production. This groundbreaking work by German playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz is a strange and unsettling solo performance where the audience follows the middle-aged female protagonist through her everyday evening rituals at home. There is no dialogue, only the exacting rhythm of accumulated everyday details and mundane sounds of a quiet life and inevitable tragic conclusion. Originally, Jump-Start staged this play in the actor’s apartment rather than in a theatre. No more than twenty people at a time followed her from room to room throughout the performance, providing the audience with an intense and intimate perspective. For the 25th season, Jump-Start will re-stage Request Concert as a series of site-specific performances in different houses or apartments with a collective of six performers (male and female, of diverse ages and ethnicities) who will also serve as directors for each other in a round-robin process. Tickets for each show will be limited but performances will also be broadcast each night on a dedicated website.
AS FILTHY AS IT GETS
June 10-12, 17-19, 24-26, 2010
Written and performed by Annele Spector and Monessa Esquivel
Directed by Steve Bailey
Winner of Best Play of 2007 in the San Antonio Current (Reader’s and Critics’ Pick), Filthy makes a triumphant return with the rowdy and irreverent Methane Sisters. Follow the Sisters as they try to regain their former rock fame. Their volatile relationship as co-dependent musical stars sends them into obscurity and oblivion until the music industry sucks them back in almost 20 years later. Featuring new material, live music, original video, and lots of audience participation!
OFF THE GRID
Friday, July 2, 2010
View on-going original performance art pieces by various Company members in unconventional locations of the theater (the porch, our back classroom and the loading dock) as you enjoy First Friday in the Complex.
