Wednesday, September 29th at 7p.m.
$5 regular 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. 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.

The line-up will feature work by Soul Fusion Dance Co., Seme Jatib & Anna de Luna

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.

For more information, please call 227-JUMP.

I’LL REMEMBER FOR YOU
(Yo Me Acuerdo Por Ti)
Written by Lisa Suarez
Directed by Laurie Dietrich
September 17-26 – Friday – Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.
A new bilingual theater production depicting a Mexican-American woman’s experiences, living with her mother’s dementia and memory loss. In this courageous, deeply personal and unsentimental look at the role of the caregiver in this growing epidemic, Suarez brings her own life with her aging mother to the stage. She writes about – and portrays – her mother with humor and respect, love and frustration, sadness and celebration.

Admission: $15 general, $12 students & seniors (group rate available)
20 RUSH tickets set aside for $5, only available at the door 5 minutes before the show. Cash only. Limit two per person.

W-I-P (Wednesdays-in-Performance/Works-in-Progress)
September 29, November 3, December 1
January 26, February 23, March 30
Wednesdays at 7 p.m.
Our long-running collaboration with the San Antonio Dance Umbrella continues as area artists present short excerpts of original work, followed by a feedback session with the audience.

Admission: $5 general, $3 students & seniors

Rene Roberts’
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS BALL
November 2 -Tuesday at 7 p.m.
An adult social dance party & fundraiser benefiting Jump-Start Performance Co. and the San Antonio AIDS foundation. Special entertainment by local talent and featuring special guest Erica Andrews. Music provided by DJ Joe Alforo from The Saint! Come dressed in costume with your best skeleton face on.

Admission: $100 front table seat, $50 side table seat, $25 general

WINDOWS V
November 5, December 3
March 4, June 3
Friday evening start times TBA

The wildly successful series continues for a fifth year. Audiences gather outside to view one-night-only performance installations staged in the front window of the theater.

Never too Dead to Dance
Created by Laurie Dietrich
November 5, 2010

Fet Gede, Jump-Start style. Drumming, dancing, and all things dead. Come see how much fun crossing over can be. Created by Laurie Dietrich, with apologies to serious serviteurs, and sincere belief that the lwa have a sense of humor.

Behind the Mistletoe
Created by Dino Foxx featuring the Naughty Reindeer
December 3, 2010

Find a cozy spot under the mistletoe and get ready for a holiday themed peep-show that is sure to roast your chestnuts and trim your tree. This time, no one gets left out of these sexy reindeer games.

March 4, 2011 – Created by Billy Muñoz & S.T. Shimi
June 3, 2011 – Created by Annele Spector

Admission: Free

Rodney Garza
EL CHUCO LOVES LA CHE
November 12 & 13 – Friday & Saturday at 8 p.m.
A poetically comedic homage to the letter ‘Ch’ of the Chicano\Spanglish alphabet, told in the voice of a sharp-witted, zoot-suited pachuco. This hilarious trip through his memories of the bi-cultural barrio is full of colorful characters and customs.

Admission: $15 general, $12 students & seniors (group rate available)

John McBurney’s
GLAMaRAMA LOUNGE – THE LEGENDS DRAG ON!
December 4 – Saturday at 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m.
One Night! Two Shows!

Admission: $25 table seats, $15 general

PERFORMANCE PARTY 26
January 8 – Saturday at 7 p.m.
Jump-Start’s annual birthday blowout extravaganza features three hours of non-stop, eclectic performances from company & community artists alike. Come for some or stay for all!

Admission: $5 suggested donation

SUNDAY
Written & performed by Janie Sauceda
February 11 – 13, 2011
Friday & Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.

Sunday, a new one-woman show, takes you on a Sunday cruise through Janie’s childhood memories. It’s the late ‘70’s and Pablo’s Grove is the place to be, Janie isn’t going to miss the music, the lights, or the fun and neither should you!

Admission: $15 general, $12 students & seniors (group rate available)

Adelina Anthony in…
LA HOCICONA SERIES: AN ORIGINAL X-X-XICANA COMEDIC TRIPTYCH OF SCANDALOUS PROPORTIONS
February 25, 26 & 27 – Friday & Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday Time TBA
Three solo comedy shows back-to-back: La Angry Xicana?!, La Sad Girl & La Chismosa!!!

Admission: Individual pre-sale tickets available at $18 each
A pre-sale package of the 3 shows $45 ($15 each)
Pre-sale groups of 10 or more for each show $15
At the door; $20 general, $15 students/seniors with ID

The Push Pens in…
THE BARSTOOL POETS PROJECT: LAST CALL FOR TRUTH
Written & performed by Dino Foxx & Manuel “Cros” Esquivel
Directed by Steve Bailey
April 21-23, 28-30 – Thursday-Saturday at 8 p.m.
A new hip-(h)opera featuring the sounds & true stories of two young Chicano men from the west side of San Antonio. Foxx & Esquivel bond onstage with banging beats & tales of growing beyond their challenging childhoods, bringing the Texas Latino experience to the forefront of hip-hop theatre.

Admission: $15 general, $12 students & seniors (group rate available)
20 RUSH tickets set aside for $5, only available at the door 5 minutes before the show. Cash only. Limit two per person.

W-I-P CRÈME
May 4, Wednesday at 7 p.m.
A celebration showcase of selected, complete works from the current W-I-P season.

Admission: $10 general

THE NEIGHBOUR
Written & performed by Doyle Avant & S.T. Shimi
Directed by Steve Bailey
June 9-12, 16-19 – Thursday – Sunday at 8 p.m.
Avant & Shimi depart from their traditional solo work to present a new collaboration about two people living next door to each other, whose secrets and histories collide. This is a tale of forgetting, excavating and evacuation.

Admission: $15 general, $12 students & seniors (group rate available)
20 RUSH tickets set aside for $5, only available at the door 5 minutes before the show. Cash only. Limit two per person.

FARID MERCURY
Written & performed by Robert Karimi
June 24, 25, & 26 and July 2 & 3 – Friday & Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays TBA
This wildly entertaining new work, Farid Mercury, is an exploration of Persian masculinity through the lens of Queen pop star Freddy Mercury. Karimi, currently based in San Francisco, is an interdisciplinary artist/activist/poet, and a multimedia humorist whose Iranian/Guatemalan hybrid heritage serves as a point of departure for his artistic/spiritual/political reflections.

Admission: $15 general, $12 students & seniors (group rate available)

Site-Specific W-I-P
June 29, Wednesday at 7 p.m.
We’re taking W-I-P outdoors in June. Meet us in the lobby and then travel around the Blue Star Complex to view three specially-commissioned performance pieces. We will return to the theater for a brief post-show discussion with all the artists.
Admission: $5 general, $3 students & seniors

In the Jump-Start Art Gallery
Art openings held each First Thursday from 6 – 8 p.m. Art is displayed until the end of each month.

Vanessa Hill (September)
Mary Glenn (October)
Edward Wise (November)
Ann Lyneah Curtis (December)
Jump-Start Company Work (January)
Mathew Mendez (February)
Laurie Brainerd (March)
Student Art Show (April)
David Sanchez (May)
James Saldivar (June)

Rene Roberts’
Dia De Los Muertos Ball

Tuesday, November 2 at 7 p.m.

$50 Table Seating
$25 General
Special $100 Table Seats available in the front row! Call 210-227-5867 to reserve your table today!

An adult social dance party fundraiser benefiting Jump-Start Performance Co. and the San Antonio AIDS foundation. Special entertainment by local talent and special guest Erica Andrews. Music provided by DJ Joe Alforo from the Saint!

Guests are asked to arrive in costume with skeleton face. See photo above for example.

I’ll Remember For You
(Yo Me Acuerdo Por Ti)

By Lisa Suarez
Directed by Laurie Dietrich

September 17 – 26, 2010
Friday & Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.

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

In May, 2010, the Alzheimer’s Association released a report that anticipates the number of Americans aged 65 or older with Alzheimer’s will increase from 5.1 million today to 13.5 million in 40 years. By then, the annual cost of caring for people with Alzheimer’s will exceed $20 trillion.

I’ll Remember For You by Lisa Suarez is a new bilingual theater production depicting a Mexican-American woman’s experiences,
feelings and thoughts surrounding her mother’s dementia and memory loss. In this courageous, deeply personal and unsentimental look at the role of the caregiver in this growing epidemic, Suarez brings her own life with her aging mother to the stage. She writes about – and portrays – her mother with humor and respect, love and frustration, fear, sadness and celebration.

I’ll Remember For You is a very private look at an increasingly
public dynamic. As medical science enables us to live longer,
perhaps money ear-marked for research into a “cure” for aging-
related dementia could be better spent on support infrastructure for
the afflicted and their caregivers…who will be us.

Here’s the entire show from June 24, 2010 (about 90min). Direct video download.

The Macondo Foundation and Jump-Start present Nuevo Mundo, an evening of readings and performances by renowned writers Leslie Marmon Silko and Elena Poniatowska, hosted by Sandra Cisneros. In this new millennium, far-flung communities are coming into contact and creating something new. From this fusion and confusion arise flourishing hybrids, a time of intense creation and a new mestizaje. These writers blend history and visionary thinking in an evening that will challenge and amaze.

Off the Grid 2
Friday, July 2, 2010
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Free

View on-going performance art pieces in unconventional locations of the theater (our dressing rooms, our back classroom and the loading dock) as you enjoy First Friday in the Complex. Preview some of next season’s original works in this one-time-only performance event. Featuring work by Jump-Start Company members S.T. Shimi, Billy Muñoz, Dino Foxx (with Manuel “Cros” Esquivel as The Push Pens), Lisa Suarez and Daniel Jackson.

Stay for another Windows 4×4 performance by Robert Rehm at 8:45 p.m., 9:15 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.!

We’re taking W-I-P outdoors in June, so bring your sunscreen!

Meet us in the lobby and then travel around the Blue Star Complex to view three specially-commissioned performance pieces. We will return to the theater for a brief post-show discussion with all the artists.

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

The Methane Sisters in
As Filthy as it Gets
June 10-12, 17-19, 24-26, 2010
Thursday – Saturday @ 8 p.m.
$20 opening night orgy Thursday, June 10, 2010!
$16 general admission, $12 students and seniors
Written and Performed by Annele Spector and Monessa Esquivel
Directed by Steve Bailey | Video by Sam Lerma

THEY’RE BACK! Winner of the San Antonio Current’s Best Play in 2007 (Readers’ & Critics’ Pick), Filthy makes a triumphant return to the stage. Follow the rowdy, raunchy Methane Sisters as they try to regain their former rock fame. Once forced into obscurity by their fiery relationship and co-dependent celebrity antics, now it’s 20 years later and the music industry is sucking them back in! Featuring a hot new band, live rock concert performances, racy music videos and lots of feminine hygiene product giveaways. If you’re a fan of F-bombs, Filthy is for you!

“Bathing is a kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship with what spiritual efficiency has not been determined.” –Benjamin Franklin. Come bathe with the gods in Robert Rehm’s surreal window adventure and discover what comes out in the wash.