JUMP RHYTHM JAZZ PROJECT PERFORMS AT WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE ON OCTOBER 18 

This season’s Fall Dance Day at Westchester Community College features Chicago’s highly acclaimed Jump Rhythm Jazz Project and master classes, a lecture demonstration, and a full-length evening performance scheduled on Saturday, October 18 at 8:00 p.m. in the Academic Arts Theatre. The highlight of Fall Dance Day is the full company performance at 8:00 p.m.  Tickets are $20 (general admission) and $17 (for children/students/seniors).

The free residency activities, also on October 18, include jazz dance technique classes: Master Class (beginners) from 9:30-11:00 a.m., Advanced Master Class (advanced beginners) from at 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and an informal lecture demonstration (1:00-2:00 p.m.). These residency events will be held in the Physical Education Building –Gym and are open to the public.

Based in Chicago since 1993, the Jump Rhythm Jazz Project is a company of rhythmically exuberant dancers who dance to the beat-driven sounds of syncopated music. The company has thrilled audiences and students nationally and internationally with its rich blend of percussive musicality and emotion-charged dance theatre. The “rhythm first” affirmation of life and art is based on the Jump Rhythm Technique which helps transform dancing bodies and singing voices into vibrantly clear percussion instruments. Dancer magazine credited founder and artistic director Billy Siegenfeld with “inventing the first genuine jazz technique in forty years,” and Dance Theatre magazine placed him on its “Twentieth Century Timeline of Choreographers and Innovators.”

There are no tickets or reservations necessary for any of the daytime residency events in the Physical Education Building – Gym. For tickets or information on the evening performance, call 914-606-6262.