Jump Rhythm Jazz Project

jump rhythm jazz project is a multiple-emmy®-award-winning performing and teaching company based in chicago. jrjp celebrates the communal core of jazz performance — dancing, singing, and story-telling in rhythmically syncopated conversations to the beat-driven sounds of the blues, swinging jazz, funk, hip hop, and world music. jrjp was founded by billy siegenfeld in new york city in 1990. today, the technique’s innovative, “rhythm-first” system of movement-and-voice training – rooted in the injury-preventive alignment concept of standing down straight® – is taught locally and world-wide in community centers, after-school programs, private studios, and colleges, and as part of the dance and theatre curriculums of northwestern university, dance center evanston, northside dance theatre, university of wisconsin-stevens point, randolph college, viterbo university, university of richmond, and the arts academy of turku university of applied sciences in finland. being a uniquely rhythm-generat