Calpulli Mexican Dance Company

Name: Calpulli Mexican Dance Company
Start: 2025-10-15T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Grunin Center for the Arts

Schedule

Wed, 15 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Grunin Center for the Arts | Toms River, NJ

Main Stage
(Building 11A)
Tickets $39
About the Event
Using both folk and classical music and dance, Calpulli Mexican Dance Company’s Dia de los Muertos explores a love story that spans the boundary between the living and the departed. A loving couple falls victim to treachery and is separated, seemingly forever. The young woman enters Mictlán- the underworld of Aztec mythology- where the mesmerizing Catrina reigns as queen.
The original concept for Dia de los Muertos was a show by Calpulli premiered in 2004 at Queens Theatre in the Park named “Tiempo de Cempazuchitl/ Time of the Marigold.” Then Artistic Director Noemy Hernandez created Calpulli’s first story-based production of “Dia de los Muertos” in 2012 premiered at the Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University. The final production of story was premiered at Queens Theatre in 2016 under the Artistic Direction of Alberto Lopez Herrera, Dramaturg and co-story writer Roberto Lara, with Music Direction by George Saenz.