(GALLOWAY, NJ) -- The acclaimed Limón Dance Company will perform at Stockton University's Performing Arts Center on Friday, October 11, 2024 at 7:30pm. The performance is a culmination of a Stockton Dance Residency with the company and its artistic director Dante Puleio from October 4-12.

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 will enliven Stockton’s campus during the weeklong residency, engaging with students and the community through master classes and rehearsals.

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.

Tickets for the October 11 performance are $30 for the general public, $27 for seniors (65+) and military members, $25 for alumni, $20 for faculty and staff and $12 for children under 12 and Stockton students. Tickets are available for purchase online or at the Stockton Performing Arts Center box office from 10:00am to 3:00pm Monday through Thursday and 90 minutes before showtime. Call 609-652-9000.

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.

Puleio, a widely respected former member of the Limón Dance Company and now Artistic Director, leads this year’s residency. He will stage a masterwork from the Limón repertory on select dancers from the Stockton Dance Company, to be performed in the Spring Dance Concert, February 27 - March 1, 2025, in the Performing Arts Center.

Stockton University is ranked among the top public universities in the nation. Our more than 9,000 students can choose to live and learn on the 1,600-acre wooded main campus in the Pinelands National Reserve in South Jersey and at our coastal residential campus just steps from the beach and Boardwalk in Atlantic City. The university offers more than 160 undergraduate and graduate programs.