In 1937, Limón was selected as one of the first Bennington Fellows. Limón made several more appearances throughout the next few years in shows such as Humphrey's New Dance, Theatre Piece, With my Red Fires, and Weidman's Quest. Limón also tried his hand at choreography at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre. From 1932 to 1933, Limón made two more Broadway appearances, in the musical revue Americana and in Irving Berlin's As Thousands Cheer, choreographed by Charles Weidman. Limón recruited Ide and schoolmates Eleanor King and Ernestine Stodelle to form "The Little Group". In 1930, Limón first performed on Broadway, and later that same year he choreographed his first dance, "Etude in D Minor", a duet with Letitia Ide.
In 1929, he was inspired to dance after attending one of Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi's performances and enrolled in the Humphrey-Weidman school. He moved to New York City in 1928 to study at the New York School of Design. Īfter graduating from Lincoln High School (San Diego, California), Limón attended UCLA as an art major. In 1915, his family moved to Los Angeles, California. José Arcadio Limón was born January 12, 1908, in Culiacán, Mexico, the eldest of twelve children. 4 José Limón Foundation and Limón technique.
Limón generally sets his dances to music, choosing composers ranging from Ludwig van Beethoven and Frederic Chopin to Arnold Schoenberg and Heitor Villa-Lobos. Other works were inspired by subjects as diverse as the McCarthy hearings ( The Traitor) and the life of La Malinche, who served as interpreter for Hernán Cortés. Limón's most well-known work is The Moor's Pavane (1949), based on Shakespeare's Othello, which won a major award. He also utilized the dance vocabulary developed by both Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, which aimed at demonstrating emotion through dance in a way that was much less strict and stylized than ballet as well as used movements of the body that felt most natural and went along with gravity. Inspired in part by his teacher Doris Humphrey's and Charles Weidman's theories about the importance of body weight and dynamics, his own Limón technique emphasizes the rhythms of falling and recovering balance and the importance of good breathing to maintaining flow in a dance. His dances feature large, visceral gestures - reaching, bending, pulling, grasping - to communicate emotion. In his choreography, Limón spoke to the complexities of human life as experienced through the body. In the 1940s, he founded the José Limón Dance Company (now the Limón Dance Company), and in 1968 he created the José Limón Foundation to carry on his work. José Arcadio Limón (January 12, 1908 – December 2, 1972) was a dancer and choreographer from Mexico and who developed what is now known as 'Limón technique'.
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