Limon Dance Company at SPAC

Category: Performances  |  Posted: May 27, 2010

Limón Dance Company, June 10 at  8:00 PM

Pre-curtain Talk with Artistic Director Carla Maxwell 7:30 PM 

Acclaimed for its dramatic expression, technical mastery and expansive, yet nuanced movement, the Limón Dance Company continues to preserve and cultivate the masterpieces and legacy of founder José Limón (1908-1972).

Limón, a pioneering Mexican-born modern dancer and choreographer, is regarded as one of the modern dance world's seminal creative artists, known for his intense dramatic presence and the theatricality and musicality of his dances. Limón, with his mentors Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, developed the Limón technique that focuses on the movement of breath through the body, the dynamic use of weight in each body part and the fluid succession of one movement into the next. This tradition stands among only a few other movement techniques that have actually altered the course of twentieth century dance.

The company will present three works including Limón's incomparable masterwork The Moor's Pavane - a retelling of Shakepeare's Othello that is known the world over as one of the greatest dances of the 20th century. A work by choreographer Clay Taliaferro, the reflective Into My Heart's House and the major revival of another Limón masterwork, There is a Time, a lyrical dance of the circle of life set to the Pulitzer Prize-winning score by Norman Dello Joio. 

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