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Stockton opens PAC's 47th season with Pan-African dance

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Dance Company Residency

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP In honor of a contemporary dance legend, students and alumni of Stockton University's Dance Company will perform a Pan-African dance tradition on the main stage of the Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6.

Umfundalai X Legacy is an evening celebrating the legacy of Kariamu Welsh and her Umfundalai (Kiswahili for essence) tradition. Produced by Umfundalai Master Teacher Saleana Pettaway, the concert delves into the pan-Africanist lineage of this contemporary dance tradition, fusing artists from Welsh's Philadelphia-based Kariamu & Company: Traditions alongside current Stockton students and alumni.

What Mama Taught Me situates dance reconstructions from the Kariamu & Company repertory alongside the dances of movement artists inspired by Welsh and the Umfundalai tradition. This concert concludes a weeklong residency of master classes, talkbacks, lecture demonstrations and rehearsals with the Stockton Dance Company.

Called a pioneer of African dance studies by the New York Times, Welsh, known affectionately to her students as Dr. K or simply Mama to those closest to her, built not only a lasting dance tradition now taught across the globe but nurtured artists like Pettaway who are shepherding those ideas into the future.

General admission tickets are $12. Tickets for senior citizens (65+), children under 12 and those affiliated with Stockton University (students, staff, faculty and alumni) are $10.

For more information or to purchase tickets visit stockton.edu/pac. Tickets also are available at the Stockton Performing Arts Center box office from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 90 minutes before showtime. Call 609-652-9000.

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