PERFORMING ARTS SERIES THIS SPRING:
HIP-HOP THEATER, JAZZ DANCE, CHAMBER MUSIC

Bryn Mawr's Performing Arts Series will offer hip-hop theater, jazz dancers and singers, and chamber music by some of this country's finest performance artists and musicians in the upcoming semester.

Tickets to individual events in the Performing Arts Series are $15 for the general public, $12.50 for senior citizens and Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges' faculty and staff, and $5 for Tri-College students. Subscription packages offer discounts, mix-and-match ticket flexibility and priority seating. For tickets, call the Office for the Arts at 610-526-5210.

A preview of the semester's attractions:

Hip-hop Theater: An Evening with Danny Hoch, Friday, Jan. 28, 8 p.m., Goodhart Hall

Danny Hoch is an actor, playwright, director, teacher and producer known for masterful character impersonations in his one-man hip-hop shows that explore the culture and mystique of urban America.

His plays Pot Melting, Some People and Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop have toured the world, and his writings on race, class and hip-hop have appeared in the Village Voice and The New York Times.

Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, Friday, Feb. 11, 8 p.m. , Goodhart Hall

The dancer-singers of Jump Rhythm Jazz Project celebrate the art of true jazz performance, dancing and singing in high-energy bursts to the syncopated sound of swinging jazz, the blues, Latin jazz and jazz-tinged funk. Dancer credits company founder and Artistic Director Billy Siegenfeld with "inventing the first genuine jazz technique in 40 years."

Pacifica Quartet, Friday, April 8, 8 p.m., Thomas Great Hall

One of today's most dynamic string ensembles, the Pacifica Quartet achieved international stature shortly after its founding in 1994, when it won three of chamber music's most prestigious awards: the 1996 Grand Prize at the Coleman Chamber Music competition, top prize at the 1997 Concert Artists Guild competition and the 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. Commissioning and performing as many as eight new works a year, Pacifica is currently Faculty Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Chicago.

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