Limón Dance Company - Dance Company Residency
Galloway, N.J. – Stockton Dance hosts the Limón Dance Company and their artistic director Dante Puleio for the Dance Company Residency from Oct. 4-12, 2024.
The Limón Dance Company (LDC) has been at the vanguard of dance since its inception in 1946. This critically acclaimed company keeps alive the legacy of its founder Jose Limón, and his choreographic vision full of arresting visual clarity, theatricality and rhythmic and musical life. Now in its 78th season, LDC enlivens Stockton’s campus during the weeklong residency, engaging with students and the community through master classes and rehearsals. The residency culminates in a performance at Stockton’s Performing Arts Center on Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m.
The Performing Arts Center concert includes: excerpts from A Choreographic Offering, an exuberant celebration of dancing itself set to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, that the New York Times described as being full of “a luscious spontaneity;” There is a Time, a 1956 masterwork drawing from Ecclesiastes, evoking the breadth of human experience, and eloquently using the Pulitzer Prize winning score by Norman Dello Joio; The Exiles, a virtuosic duet;and Scherzo, an energetic, athletic dance for four men and a drum tossed between them.
The Dance Company Residency, which is sponsored by the School of Arts and Humanities, has become one of Stockton’s much anticipated events. Through this residency, world-renowned artists teach classes and work with Stockton students and the surrounding community.
Dante Puleio, a widely respected former member of the Limón Dance Company and now Artistic Director, leads this year’s residency. Puleio will stage a masterwork from the Limón repertory on select dancers from the Stockton Dance Company, to be performed in the Spring Dance Concert, Feb. 27 - March 1, 2025, in the Performing Arts Center.
Ticket Information
Tickets are $30 for the general public, $27 for seniors and $12 for Stockton students.
Tickets are also available at the Stockton Performing Arts Center box office from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 90 minutes before showtime. Call 609-652-9000.
Stockton University's School of Arts & Humanities
At the center of a liberal arts education, the School of Arts and Humanities allows students to explore their creativity, further their critical and objective thought, and expand their view of the world.
High school juniors and seniors interested in learning more about Stockton University’s Dance program are encouraged to sign up for Experience Dance Day on Friday, Oct. 25. Seats are limited and must be reserved online with the Dance program. Please visit www.stockton.edu/dance for more information and to register.
We offer innovative programs in each of our eight undergraduate areas of study: Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Africana Studies, Communication Studies, Historical Studies, Languages and Culture Studies, Literature, and Philosophy & Religion, and also our graduate program in American Studies and our dual degree program in Literature & American Studies. The study of the arts and humanities builds communication and problem-solving skills, better preparing students for careers in innovative environments.
