JUMP RHYTHM® Jazz Project and artistic director Billy Siegenfeld are pleased to announce the kick-off of the company’s 2014-2015 25th Anniversary Season in Chicago with 7 performances over two weeks in October/November 2014 at Stage 773. These include the Chicago premiere of a new work, “When Little Enough is Good Enough,” created and performed by Mr. Siegenfeld; two revivals – the award-winning “No Way Out,” with Chicago and Boston-based guest artists, and the critically acclaimed “Too Close For Comfort”; and the JRJP Classics “god of dirt,” “Getting There,” “Poppy and Lou,” and JRJP company member Kevin Durnbaugh’s “Maybe? No. Yes!”
Jump Rhythm®’s 25th Anniversary Season takes place at Stage 773 on October 24, 25, and 26, and on October 30, 31, November 1 and 2, 2014. Tickets are available at the Jump Rhythm (www.jrjp.org/events) and Stage 773 (www.stage773.com) websites.
Using story-telling, song quotes, bursts of body-percussion, and a dream duet with a creature part-dragonfly, “When Little Enough is Good Enough” charts a wayward soul’s search for simplicity, including the words of Isadora Duncan, the glitter of Hollywood musicals, and the reveries of Moby-Dick’s narrator Ishmael. Another highlight of the season includes a revival of the first piece Mr. Siegenfeld created for JRJP, “No Way Out. In the first week’s performances, guest artists Mark Yonally, artistic director of Chicago Tap Theatre, and CTT senior company member Kirsten Uttich perform the wry, rhythmically complex duet at the piece’s center. In the second week, guest artists Ryan Casey, Boston-based choreographer and former member of Dorrance Dance, and Mr. Casey’s artistic associate Elana Harvey perform the duet.
About JUMP RHYTHM® Jazz Project
JUMP RHYTHM® Jazz Project (JRJP), founded in 1990 and now in its 25th season, is an Emmy award-winning performance company whose members use their bodies and their voices to bring human stories to life with infectious energy, raw emotion, and unbridled joy. The company’s uniquely percussive form of American Rhythm Dancing® creates a powerful connection between performer and audience for a heart-pumping, heart-felt experience. The technique’s innovative, “rhythm-first” system of movement-and-voice training – rooted in the injury-preventive alignment concept of Standing Down Straight® – is taught locally and world-wide in community centers, after-school programs, private studios, and colleges.
