Performance & Events
Upcoming Performances & Events
CONFABULATION AND CONFABULATING with LAURIE DIETRICH AND ERIK BOSSE
Erik Bosse and Laurie Dietrich are former Jump-Start company members who now live in New Orleans. Having snagged them to be our 2026 guest artists, they will be in residence at Jump-Start Theater, 710 Fredericksburg Road, SA TX 78201, July 24 – 26, 2026, performing their own work, leading a workshop and guiding the workshop participants’ show. The theme for the residency is Confabulate – to unknowingly construct memories of events that never took place. Below is a rundown of what the weekend will include. For more information, call 210-227-JUMP (5867).
About the Show…
Confabulation: An Evening of Honest Lies with Erik Bosse and Laurie Dietrich, plays Friday, July 24 and Sunday, July 26 at 8pm. It’s a multimedia performance of spoken-word microfictions, generative soundscapes, and colorful abstract projections where the performers and the audience co-confabulate a swirling morass of experiences that never took place, and leave with memories that never happened.
Tickets are choose-what-you-pay: $0, $5, $10, $15, $20 or $25 and are available at www.jump-start.org or https://dojour.us/e/86914
About the Workshop
Confabulating: A Play-Making Workshop led by Erik Bosse and Laurie Dietrich is on Saturday, July 25 from 10am to 10pm. Participants (15 max) will gather Saturday morning to write, then after lunch, share what they’ve written and weave their words together. After a dinner break, they’ll cast that net into the audience and see what stories they catch. The work-shoppers will make a show in a day and let the audience tell them what it means. Registration is choose-what-you-pay: $0, $10, $20, $30 or $40.
Interested folks may register at www.jump-start.org or https://dojour.us/e/88749
Confabulating: The Workshop Show with the workshop participants will be presented Saturday, July 25 at 8pm. Having made their show-in-a-day, the work-shoppers will be delighted to share the result with an audience. Tickets are choose-what-you-pay: $0, $5, $10, $15 or 20 and are available at www.jump-start.org or https://dojour.us/e/89151
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.