Performance & Events
Upcoming Performances & Events
SNACKED UP IN PRAYER! THE DEMENTIA DIARIES SEPT 26 – 28 8PM
Jump-Start Performance Co. is proud to present Snacked Up In Prayer! The Dementia Diaries written by Robin LaVerne Wilson, performed by Dragonfly and directed by Amalia Ortiz. The one-woman hour-long variety show highlights the multi-faceted challenges facing a family member as she cares for an elder in cognitive decline. Throughout Snacked Up In Prayer! Dragonfly uses multiple tasks and techniques to invite audiences to engage with this social issue that affects so many.
Performances take place September 26, 27 at 8 PM and September 28 at 3 PM at Jump-Start Theater, 710 Fredericksburg Road, San Antonio, TX 78201. Tickets are Choose-What-You-Pay: $0, $5, $10, $15, $20 or $25. Find them at https://dojour.us/e/62021 or visit www.jump-start.org.
Until the day she got ‘that’ fateful phone call, Dragonfly was living her best bohemian life in NYC. Now, after 20 years, the prodigal daughter is back in her childhood home in Texas. She negotiates the changes in her octogenarian mother’s memories and abilities while also dealing with her own change of life and change of circumstances. Helpful and harmful characters aid and assail her on her journey. As the baby of the family, she quickly learns to care for her mother and herself beyond everyone’s expectations, with the help of snacks and prayers along the way.
Dragonfly has been selected as Jump-Start’s INKubator artist for 2025. This program supports a San Antonio artist or collective each season with a small budget, rehearsal space, tech support, the Critical Response Process and a nurturing environment in which to produce their original performance. Audience
attendance and feedback supports the further development of the artist’s production.
Past Performances & Events
Pop-Up Poetry Production April 2021
Visiting Guest Artist Dennis RedMoon Darkeem April 2020 (Bronx, NY)
Performance Party XXX6: Tradionally Untriditional Jan. 2021
Brunch of Champions Dec. 2020
Allerseelen Nov. 2020
I’ll Remember For You Sept. 2020
8 x 8 Cabaret Du Jump en Noir Aug. 2020
Tejana Rasquacha July 2020
She Wears Bells (INKubator June 2020)
Model Talks Mar. 2020
Jessica St. John: Memories of a Drag Queen (On & Off Fred. Rd. Studio Tour Feb. 2020)
Performance Party 35 Jan. 2020
Tejana Atomica Oct 2019
Brunch of Champion Oct 2019
Connected by Teletextile (INKubator Sept. 2019)
8 x 8 Cabaret Du Jump – August 2019
Gaylord’s Last Happy Hour by Chuck Squier – June 2019
Payasos on Parade – April 2019
Flatbed Teatro – Westside Walkout – March 2019
On & Off FREDericksburg Rd. – February 2019
Guest Artist: Judith Sloan (Queens, NY) – February 2019
Semana de Sueños by Eraina Porras – January 2019
Performance Party 34 – January 2019
Tejana Rasquacha by Marisela Barrera – December 2018
Brunch of Champions – October 2018
Community Series
THE COMMUNITY SERIES (work by guest artists in our theater) includes:
INKubator, in which we select a San Antonio artist or company to create and produce a new work
ON & OFF FRED, when we present the work of a visual and/or performance artist as part of a neighborhood studio tour and art walk
8 X 8 CABARET DU JUMP, eight 8-minute performances by guests and company in an 8-foot cube
A special GUEST ARTIST RESIDENCY that includes their performance and presentation of workshops for the company and community.
JUMP-START-AT-LARGE (performance that takes place anywhere but our theater) includes:
STILT-WALKERS AND PERFORMANCE ARTISTS OF JUMP-START who appear at Fiesta San Antonio parades and other surprise locations; and
FLATBED TEATRO, which brings a fresh show on a flatbed trailer to libraries, parking lots and fields around San Antonio.