JazzAntiqua
Dance & Music Ensemble
(15 members)

Co-founded in 1993 by choreographer Pat Taylor and musician and composer Marcus Shelby. JazzAntiqua has received grant awards from the California Arts Council, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and most recently from the Doolittle Foundation.

Among the many venues JazzAntiqua has performed at are: the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California Plaza, Alex Theatre, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Japan America Theatre, California African American Museum, Claremont and Moorpark Colleges, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Highways Performance Space, Watts Towers Jazz Festival, Japan America Theatre and The Jazz Bakery.

JazzAntiqua's original jazz-ballets are a unique style of jazz theatre that blends music, dance, poetry and song with a distinctive historical perspective.

www.jazzAntiqua.org

Currently Touring:

"MIDTOWN SUNSET" (1993), a blending of the collage art of Romare Bearden with the poetry of Langston Hughes.

"ODYSSEUS SUITE" (1996), a contemporary re-telling of the epic Greek poem "The Odyssey.

"THE BALLAD OF JOSH GIBSON" (1997), a look at the legacy of the Negro Baseball League.

"IN THE BEGINNING" (1998), a tracing of the oral tradition at the heart of blues music.

"TO DUKE, WITH LOVE" (1999), a tribute to the musical magic of Duke Ellington.

"BIG TRAIN" (2002), a journey along the 'blues highway' - following the Black migration from the rural South to the urban North.

"A LOVE SUPREME" (2004), set to the music of John Coltrane.

"LIVING WATER" (2005), a collaboration with vocalist Dwight Trible.