A showcase of new and emerging talent in the field of live performance.
2013 Jumpstart Showcase Pieces:
A Denzel Theory
Ms. Wise
Storytelling (captured through poetry) illustrating the story of Ms. Wise's kid brother, Denzel, and their environment growing up in the City of Camden, NJ.
Higher Art
Seth Lepore
A meta-examination of the internal world of the supposedly successful in the performing arts world. By watching the blown-up and out of control process of a megalomaniac's journey towards the ultimate performance, we come face to face with our hero worship of the mad artist.
Part farce, part cultural mirror, this piece is intended to show the absurdity of making artists "others" by allowing them to sit on a pedestal of disproportionate misunderstanding.
Written and performed by Seth Lepore.
The Living History Project
Groundswell Players
The Living History Project is an autobiographical theatre piece about performer Scott Sheppard's experiences growing up in a hermetic, rural Pennsylvania town. The piece explores the absurdity of a backwards pedagogy that re-imagines a reenactment of the Civil War as a means to revitalize student body indifference.
Jenn Kidwell (actor/collaborator), Scott Sheppard (actor/collaborator), Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training (collaborators).
Mounting, Etna
Jenna Horton
Congratulations.
You are cordially invited to an evening with Etna Mounting.
Accompanied by food.
And poetry.
A small warning.
Her den of desire is delicate, volatile, tender, and potentially destructive.
Etna has been known to arouse, to entice, and to flay, even.
Not to worry though.
She wants to share.
And what's a delicacy without a little danger?
Written and performed by Jenna Horton. Directed by Mark McCloughan.
Rooster & Snowball
Magda San Millan and Chelsea Murphy
Two crazy motherfuckers try to change the modern dance world right before your very eyes. They wear winter hats and yell forwards and sdrawrof. Are they rebels, or just FAILED rebels? I don't know, you decide...or not, we don't care. Created at Headlong Performance Institute. MADE IN CHINA. (No returns, exchanges, or refunds.) Additional Credit: Thank you Maiko for your pants.
Magda San Millan (Rooster), Chelsea Murphy (Snowball).
The Supervisors
Marina Libel
Tweaking things from a helicopter, two women describe their job "supervising" human interactions using humorous, poetic dialogue and gesture in this wryly regimented duet.
Performed by Marina Libel and Sarah Gladwin Camp. Sound design by Josh Garrett-Davis.
