Dance at Stockton - Dance Company Residency & Guest Artists
2025 Dance Company Residency - BIGKID Dance
The Dance Company Residency 2025 artists-in-residence, BigKid Dance, present BRUTE, a dance work inspired by horror cinema and lore. According to Mark Caserta, Resident Choreographer and Founder of BigKid, BRUTE “acts as a self-reflection, acknowledging our brutality and our humanity, the person we present and the one we truly are, while navigating love, death, and grief.” BigKid Dance’s mission is to utilize imaginative movement, in practice and performance, as a bridge to community, communication, and understanding. Recognized by the dance field as a strong emerging choreographic voice, with a recent Jacob’s Pillow Choreographic Fellowship and a Princess Grace Award, Caserta and BigKid Dance are making cutting-edge works that challenge audiences, pushing the form of contemporary dance forward.
The Dance Company Residency, which is in its eleventh year, engages with Stockton students and with the community around Stockton. Through classes for dance students, students in general studies courses, and open classes, the artists-in-residence teach movement and share their experiences as working artists. The residency culminates in a performance of the company in Stockton's Performing Arts Center on Friday, October 11 at 7:30pm. Tickets will be available through the Stockton PAC Box Office soon.
Master Classes for Stockton Dance
Besides the Dance Company Residency and our Guest Artists, Stockton brings in various professionals for master classes throughout the year. Previous master classes have been in modern, partnering, ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, and many others.
Previous Guest Artists and Master Classes
- Nathaniel Hunt, Ailey II, New York, NY
- Tiffany Mills Compay, New York, NY
- Michael Nickerson-Rossi, Palm Springs, CA
- Saleana Pettaway, Kariamu + Company, Philadelphia, PA
- Gallim Dance, Brooklyn, NY
- Dance Now! Miami, Miami, FL
- Lehrer Dance, Buffalo, NY
- Dawn Marie Bazemore, PhilaDanco
- Julie B Johnson, Independent Artist
- Scott McPheeters, Subcircle
- Julius Carter, Broadway performer (Spiderman, On The Town)
- Jenna Riegel, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and David Dorfman Dance
- Edward Rice, Third Rail Projects and Alexandra Beller/Dances
- Meredith Rainey, Pennsylvania Ballet
- Caroline Fermin, New York, NY
- Starr Foster. Richmond, VA
- Robert Moses' KIN, San Francisco, CA
- Bryn Cohn, New York, NY
- Raphael Xavier, Philadelphia, PA
- Melissa Chisena, Richmond Ballet and Chisena Danza
- Ellie Goudie-Averill, Stone Depot Dance
- Jae Hoon Lim, Koresh Dance Company
- Rebecca Stenn, Rebecca Stenn Dance Company and Pilobolus
- Michael Spencer Phillips, Rioult Dance
- Amy Marshall, Amy Marshall Dance Company
- Marjorie Folkman, Mark Morris Dance Company
- Erin Pasko, Hip Hop Performer
