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Hartsville, SC — The
Coker College Performing Arts Series presents the sizzling Chicago-based
dance company Jump Rhythm Jazz Project on Wednesday, November 10 at 8
p.m. in Watson Theater of the Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Performing Arts
Center.
Jump Rhythm Jazz Project (JRJP) tours the world performing high-energy
dance built on the rhythms and dynamics of swing, Latin jazz, blues and
funk. At Coker, JRJP’s concert will include performances choreographed
to Cole Porter’s “Night and Day” and “Begin the Beguine.” The company
will also present two dances that are new to their repertoire: “News from
Poems” which includes music by Porter, the hip-hop group Outkast, and
Rodgers’ and Hart’s “Manhattan,” and “Sorrows of Unison Dancing” that
features music by Frederic Chopin and Antonio Carlos Jobim accompanied
by adapted texts from Charles Dickens, Gertrude Stein and Charlotte Bronte,
among others.
JRJP was founded in 1990 by Bill Siegenfeld. He continues to be group’s
artistic director and principal choreographer, as well as a performer.
Critics have praised JRJP for it’s exciting, rhythmically explosive and
emotion-driven performances. Dancers in the company are Sarah Bowen, Jackie
Brenner, Kari Knudson Christopher, Brandi Coleman, Jeannie Hill (associate
artistic director and principal performer), Jodi M. Kurtze, Glenn Leslie,
and Corey Yarnell Lozier. The lighting designer is Gregg R. Essex and
the Production Stage Manager and Lighting Designer is Gregory Etter.
Siegenfeld received the 1997 Ruth Page Dance Achievement Award for Outstanding
Choreography and the 1994 Jazz DanceWorld Congress Gold Leo Award for
Outstanding Choreography. JRJP is funded by the Illinois Arts Council,
the Elizabeth Cheney Foundation and the Hulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild
Foundation.
In addition to their performance, JRJP is conducting a master class for
Coker dance students.
Admission for JRJP at Coker College is $15 for adults, $7 for children
and students, and free with a Coker ID. Tickets are available in advance
at Burry Bookstore in downtown Hartsville, the Coker College Bookstore,
or at the door. For more information, call 843.383.8018 or email jjolly@coker.edu.
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