JAZZANTIQUA INC
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Mission Statement
To increase awareness of and appreciation for America's jazz legacy through collaborative dance and music projects (performances, classes, lecture-demonstrations, symposiums, school residencies, community dialogues, teen programs) that educate and inspire, as well as entertain.
About This Cause
Founded in 1993, Jazzantiqua Dance & Music Ensemble celebrates the jazz tradition as a vital thread in the cultural fabric of African American history and heritage and a defining element of the American experience. The ensemble of dancers, musicians, actors, poets, educators, culture bearers and mentors is dedicated to jazz arts education / preservation / creation. Jazzantiqua presents projects nationally and at local venues and institutions such as the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, California African American Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Audubon Middle School, Watts Towers Arts Center, Pasadena and East Los Angeles Colleges, CHAMPS Charter High School and Carlos Santana School. Our collaborative dance and music performances, free and low cost classes and workshops - The Movement in the Music™, LEGACY Jazz Project teen program, special events and The Community Salon intergenerational dialogues annually engage thousands of participants with jazz programming that educates and inspires, as well as entertains. Audiences and participants reflect a multi-ethnic, multi-gendered, intergenerational and broad socio-economic spectrum. We are based at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center (NHPAC), a city-owned cultural facility that is programmed and operated by the award-winning Ebony Repertory Theatre Company. The Mid-City, Washington Boulevard corridor where the NHPAC is located has a rich jazz history that emerged from the legendary jazz heyday of Los Angeles' Central Avenue. Through the mid-1980s, Black-owned jazz venues like The IT Club, Hillcrest Club/Black Orchid, the Parisian Room and many others thrived along Washington Boulevard, showcasing the greats as well as local artists. This is a vibrant community story with deep jazz roots that is often forgotten. It is an honor to champion exploration and celebration of the jazz tradition within a neighborhood steeped in its history. JazzAntiqua has been recognized with grant awards from the Doolittle Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, California Arts Council, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Black Art Futures Fund, California Humanities, as well as the generous support of individual donors. The performance ensemble has been presented at: Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Playboy Jazz Festivals (Hollywood Bowl), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Music Center of Los Angeles), Luckman Fine Arts Complex, The Jazz Bakery, Irvine Barclay Theatre, Ford Theaters, UCLA Hammer Museum, CIAEI Theater (Brazil), Dance Mission Theatre (San Francisco), Southern Theatre (Minneapolis), Laney College (Oakland), Lehman Center (New York), Peridance (New York), Mesa Performing Arts Center (Arizona) and many other distinguished venues. Feature stories and spotlight articles on JazzAntiqua have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Weekly Newspapers, Dance Teacher Now, Dance Spirit Magazine, Dance Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, Stance on Dance and Los Angeles Dance Chronicle. "These dancers were real people, with stories that are our stories... communicating themes of struggle, challenge, love, growth and hope." - LA Dance Review "Evocative, graceful and bubbling with rich, jazzy textures..." - Los Angeles Times "...a uniquely American concert jazz style that bridges cultures within a piece about living that very bridge. Directed by Pat Taylor, JazzAntiqua is one of a few companies committed to concert jazz dance, exploring the structural layering of dance, music, and text within performance." - Bachtrack "Dance has been called history written on the body, and Taylor's piece made this abstract truth utterly tangible." - ExploreDance.com