Upcoming Events

Jump-Start Performance Co., San Antonio's foremost alternative theater, announces its 2005-2006 season. Included are new works by Sterling Houston, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Sandra Dunn/S.T.Shimi, Monessa Esquivel/Annele Spector and a ground-breaking new performance series (ELECTRIC PERFORMANCE LAB). All performances will take place at the Jump-Start Theater, Building 'B' in the Blue Star Arts Complex, on the corner of South Alamo and Probandt. Unless stated otherwise, ticket prices are $12 general and $9 discount. Groups of ten or more are $7 per person. Jump-Start members always receive a 50% discount. Call 227-JUMP (5867) for reservations and more information.

May 19-21 2006
Friday & Saturday at 8:00 P.M
Sunday at 3:00 P.M
DISCONNECTED DREAMS/ON THE ISLAND
A double-bill of new works-in-progress. Kitty Williams takes us on a journey through her dreams in poetry and movement and S.T.Shimi presents her surreal sequel to her prescient 2003 solo show, In the Garden. Part of the Electric Performance Lab series.

May 26 & 27, 2006
Friday & Saturday at 8:00 PM
DEBUTANTE BALLS
Guest artist Scott Turner Schofield (formerly KT Kilborn) brings his acclaimed “one-tranny” show to San Antonio. A performer with a wicked sense of self-aware humor and great energy, Schofield challenges our notions of gender and identity. Stay tuned for announcements about community workshops.

June 9-11 2006
Friday - Sunday at 8:00 PM
TRIP TO MOMMA’S/ AS FILTHY AS IT GETS
Chuck Squier presents an elegiac ode to traveling the same desolate strip of South Texas over 20 years. The mood shifts for the rowdy and irreverent Methane Sisters (Annele Spector and Monessa Esquivel) as they take you through a 30-year journey of sex, drugs and rock n’roll. Part of the Electric Performance Lab series.

June 16-17 2006
Friday & Saturday at 8:00 PM
SELF (THE REMIX)
Guest performance artist Robert Karimi and his accompanying DJs mix stories, movement and music to tell the tale of a first generation Iranian/Guatemalan learning to survive cultural imperialism and his fractured sense of self. Also part of TeatroFEST 2006 in collaboration with Guadalupe Theater.

June 23-25, 2006
Friday & Saturday at 8:00 PM
Sunday at 3:00 PM
NEXUS
Karavan Dance Co. returns to Jump-Start under the direction of Karen Barbee Adkisson for a weekend of innovative and technically precise interpretations of Middle Eastern dance. The company will perform with a special guest artist at each performance.

July 8-9, 13-16, 20-23 2006
Showtimes TBA
SIMPLEMENTE LARA
Jose Ruben de Leon’s hit revue returns for a summer run. Come soak in the sophisticated vocals and sparkling music of acclaimed composer Augustin Lara. The George Prado ensemble will provide live musical accompaniment.

July 21-23, 2006
Thursday-Sunday at 9:00 PM
2303 S. Presa
WATERMARK 1.5
Watermark 1.5 is the site-specific sequel to the critically acclaimed Watermark 1.0.This chapter, featuring Sandra Dunn, S.T.Shimi and Monessa Esquivel, will focus on the journey of the mythological Sirens, stranded in a drowned city. They search for one of their own and fiercely question the circumstances that have led them there. It is a re-imagining of global water tales and myths, set in an apocalyptic urban landscape.

July 28-29 2006
RENAISSANCE GUILD/ONE-ACT SERIES
The Renaissance Guild returns with its popular weekend of original one-act plays. Call 805-9603 for more information.

JUMP-START ONGOING PROGRAMS

W-I-P (Wednesdays-In-Performance, Works-in-Progress)
Jump-Start and San Antonio Dance Umbrella collaborate to present a monthly series of new movement-based performances and works-in-progress in dance and theater. Each performance is followed by a Critical Response session with the audience. Performances are at 7 PM the last Wednesday of the month. Admission is $5 general and $3 discount.

HISTORIAS Y CUENTOS (Stories and Tales)
Throughout the year, Jump-Start artists and educators participate in an intensive arts partnership project with several local inner-city schools designed to foster creativity and self-esteem by exploring identity and culture through the arts.

HEALING ARTS
Ongoing collaboration with over a dozen other arts and human services organizations that provides programs for children that have suffered severe hurt, particularly those that have been abused.

FAIRWEATHER LODGE (Urban Ministries)
In this year-round program, Jump-Start artists work with groups of adults with severe mental illness from the Fairweather Lodges to explore various issues.

UP-START GALLERY
Throughout the year, Jump-Start presents about 10 gallery exhibitions by new and emerging visual artists in its lobby.

Jump-Start Performance Co. is funded, in part, by the Office of Cultural Affairs, City of San Antonio, Houston Endowment, King William Association, Kronkosky Charitable Foundation, Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundation, Myra Stafford Pryor Charitable Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Texas Commission on the Arts, San Antonio Area Foundation, members and individual donors.