(*) Jump-Start Performance Company Moves Out of Blue Star, Express-News, January 7, 2014

 

Jump-Start bids farewell to Blue Star

By Deborah Martin : January 7, 2014

SAN ANTONIO — Billy Muñoz was a little startled last weekend to discover that the stage at Jump-Start Performance Co.'s current home in the Blue Star Arts Complex was gone.

“I felt a little saddened by it,” said Muñoz, who became a Jump-Start company member in 2002. “I don't really pray, I don't really do any of that. But any time that I did a show, I would go and touch the stage and just kind of have this moment — 'Treat me well.' And now it's gone.”

That particular ritual will continue in a different form before he takes part in “Performance Party 29: Wrecking Ball” on Saturday, he said: “I'll touch the platforms or the floor.”

ARTHeism by Samantha Beasley and Topher Sipes (photo: Kevin Bradley)

The stage — along with virtually everything else that the company has accumulated in its 20 years in the space — has been moved out. “Performance Party 29: Wrecking Ball,” which starts at 7 p.m. Saturday, will be the company's final performance in the Blue Star Arts Complex.

Jump-Start learned in April that its lease was not being renewed. After a few months of hunting, they found a new home in a cozy spot at 710 Fredericksburg Road, in the heart of the nascent Beacon Hill arts district.

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Read CTXLT article of December 31 about Jump-Start's Wrecking Ball fundraiser

(*) Jump-Start Celebrates Blue Star Departure with the Wrecking Ball, January 11, 2014

(Jump-Start Performance Company via Facebook)

Come help us celebrate 20 incredible years in our Blue Star space at 1400 South Alamo! (click for map)

We've moved most of our fixtures to our new location (710 Fredericksburg Road), so we're turning the entire space into a sprawling performance party. As usual, Jump-Start's company members along with many of our cherished and talented friends will share with you theatre, dance, music, circus, video, and assorted presentations not so easy to fit into a category.

Confirmed performers include URBAN-15, Alamotion, Aerial Horizon, Angels of Elegance,Buttercup, Coyote Dreams, Los Nahuatlatos, Lisa Suarez, Erik Bosse, Dino Foxx, Hyperbubble, Jesse Borrego, Paint by Numbers, Zombie Bazaar, S.T.Shimi, San Antonio Dance Fringe, Doyle Avant, Anna de Luna, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez , Jump-Start Flaming Fire-Eaters, Kitty Williams and many more. Check back often because we will be continually updating the lineup!

There will also be a Video Chill room in the back of the building for ambient music, video and projections going on all night, including a performance by the critically acclaimed performance group ARTheism. You may also see roving performances and pop--up installations occur in unusual corners of the space.

Your kind donation (we suggest $10) will gain you access to the whole evening of chaos and good cheer, which includes eats and drinks for as long as they last. The doors open at 7 pm on Saturday, January 11th. We'll be shutting things down around 10 pm, or whenever we can manage to chase everyone out.

We have no idea what the owners of this building have in mind. But come and party with us before the demolition crews shoulder their way in and turn this place into some ghastly bistro or boutique.

See you at the Wrecking Ball!