Jump Rhythm Jazz Project 20th Anniversary Performance Celebration

The Emmy Award-winning Jump Rhythm Jazz Project is know nationally and aborad for its innovative vocal-rhythmic system of movement training called Jump Rhythm Technique, and for its rhythm-driven story dances performed to the beat-rich sounds of jazz, blues-and-funk-based rock, and world music. Jump Rhythm will mark its 20th Anniversary year with a program of premieres and classics. Artistic director Billy Siegenfeld revives his poignant “Poppy and Lou” and the exuberant transnational foldk dance, “god of dirt,” set to the alternately keening and ecstatic songs of Serb-Croat composer, Goran Bregovic. Siegenfeld also presents two premieres: “You Do Not Have To Be Good,” i nwhich staunch, self-isolated territoriality is trasformed in the the beginnings of a peaceable community; and “Why Gershwin?,” a wry romance for two backed by a quartet of sly, scat-singing cupids, based on the words and music of the Gershwin brothers and the godfather of soul, James Brown.

Special Event: 20th Anniversary Post-Performance Celebration
Saturday, February 20, 2010
The Dance Center
Tickets: $75
Anniversary festivities include hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, and live music. Raise a glass to Jump Rhythm’s 20 years of rhythm-making, while mingling with company members past and present.