Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theatre

After a nation-wide selection process, the James Madison University School of Theatre and Dance was selected for Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theatre's one-week 35th Anniversary Community Residency. The company will be in residence April 6-11. In addition to their concert on April 11, they will  teach master classes and workshops for students and faculty in arts and health care. They will also present workshops at the stroke center of Sentara/Rockingham Memorial Hospital for health care professionals, stroke survivors, and their family care-givers.

The company’s community inclusive work has been lauded as a “National Model” by The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and its Arts & Healthcare work has been recognized for “Best Practices” by the National Endowment for the Arts.

This event is supported by the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the College of Health and Behavioral Studies, the Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services, and Sentara/ RMH Medical Center.

Known for capturing with humor and compassion the spectacles of everyday life (Columbus Art),” Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater (SPDT) company performs in cities from its hometown of Minneapolis to Mexico City to Dusseldorf, Germany. Founded by Stuart Pimsler in 1978 and now co-directed with Suzanne Costello, SPDT strives to create “theater for the heart and mind” with its work focused on “love, loss, and the need for connection.” Come experience “choreography with exquisite abandon” as the company reveals “the urgency of expectation and the vulnerability that comes with a bared soul.”(Minneapolis Star Tribune) www.stuartpimsler.com

Concert is Saturday, April 11, at 8:00 in the Earlynn J. Miller Dance Theatre
Tickets can be purchased here!