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Jacob Jonas The Company (JJTC) is a Los Angeles-based creative company that intersects dance across mediums to make original works and initiates nontraditional collaborations. JJTC has created more than 100 original works for the stage and the camera with its “robust fusion of acrobatics, ballet, modern and street dance”(Los Angeles Times). 

Presentations in live performance include Kennedy Center, Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Lensic Performing Arts Center, and Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. JJTC has collaborated with diverse artists, including Rosalia, Elton John, Sia, Vanessa Beecroft, and Patrick Watson. The company has created original work for brands like Apple, Gap, James Perse, and Sony and partnered with museums, such as Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Museum, Swiss National Museum, and Whitney Museum. The company continues to create work with a mission to make dance more visible and valuable. 

“Jonas is … making a name for himself with energetic shows that combine disparate movement disciplines including breakdance, acrobatics, modern dance and contemporary ballet.” — Los Angeles Times

 


Dance Series Sponsors

Betty Hum & Alan Yudell and Karen & John Voris

location

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts | Virginia G. Piper Theater
7380 E 2nd St
Scottsdale, AZ 85251

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Contemporary Dance Series package

The 2023–24 dance series presents groundbreaking movement to contemporary companies rooted in the classical form from Flamenco Íntimo* to Jacob Jonas The Company to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago to Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo to Gibney Company.

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