Meadowland Park Dance Festival
Schedule
Sat, 13 Sep, 2025 at 02:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
5 Mead St, South Orange, NJ 07079-1501, United States | South Orange, NJ
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Bring a lawn chair and a snack and join us for Meadowland Park's newest offering: The Meadowland Park Dance Festival with Guest Artist Lydia Johnson Dance*.Brought to you by the South Orange Department of Recreation and Meadowland Park Conservancy, the MPDF gives our local choreographers and dancers a chance to perform original works and allows us to support their development as artists. By offering this performance opportunity for free, we give park visitors a unique, homegrown cultural experience without the lofty and prohibitive ticket price.
This year's intimate program "Cloud Cover" will cap at an hour in length.
September 13th
2:30 pm
Meadowland Park at the Skate House
5 Mead Street, South Orange, NJ 07079
More info on our website: https://meadowlandpark.org/events/mpdf/
Dancer info can be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKu0LIcPN2aMRFC-WTja2KKhu8kz2giqvJh2jkQSbQJXW8rg/viewform?usp=header
Sponsorship info can be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSero8oyIXyXFFDBHY5Zl8CXADJOvkc6aZxKeG3pubpY-CzGjQ/viewform
*Lydia Johnson Dance (Guest Artists) will show excerpts from Ms. Johnson’s recent piece, Evening, with music by Johann Paul Von Westhoff and Nico Muhly. Principal LJD dancers Laura Di Orio, Oscar Antonio Rodriguez, Cara Mc Manus and Michael Miles will perform. Ms. Johnson’s choreography has been acclaimed in The New Yorker, The New York Times and Critical Dance, among others. Marina Harss in The New Yorker commented: “Johnson is a craftsman and a poet,” and Jerry Hochman in Critical Dance called her work an example of “simple truth and transcendent beauty.” The Company presents an annual New York Season and will perform at New York Live Arts in June 2026. The Lydia Johnson Dance School holds local classes in both Maplewood and South Orange.
Lydia Johnson Dance: www.lydiajohnsondance.org
Lydia Johnson Dance School: www.lydiajohnsondanceschool.com
LJD on Instagram: @lydiajohnsondance
LJD School on Instagram: @lydiajohnsondanceschool
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