Limón Dance Company to perform at Stockton PAC

The acclaimed Limón Dance Company will perform at Stockton University’s Performing Arts Center in Galloway Township on Friday.

The performance is a culmination of a Stockton Dance Residency with the company and its artistic director Dante Puleio that began last Friday.

The Limón Dance Company has been a 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.

In its 78th season, the dance company will enliven Stockton’s campus culminating with Friday's 7:30 p.m. performance.

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.

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 beginning Feb. 27 in the Performing Arts Center.

Tickets for Friday's performance are $30 for the general public, $27 for those 65 and older and military members, $25 for alumni, $20 for faculty and staff and $12 for children younger than 12 and Stockton students.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit stockton.edu/pac .

Tickets are also available at the Stockton Performing Arts Center box office 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 90 minutes before showtime. Call 609-652-9000.