José Limón
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'. 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.In his choreography, Limón spoke to the complexities of human life as experienced through the body. His dances feature large, visceral gestures — reaching, bending, pulling, grasping — to communicate emotion. 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. 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.
Limón's most well-known work is ''The Moor's Pavane'' (1949), based on Shakespeare's ''Othello'', which won a major award. 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 generally sets his dances to music, choosing composers ranging from Ludwig van Beethoven and Frederic Chopin to Arnold Schoenberg and Heitor Villa-Lobos. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Limón, José
[New York?] : Limón Institute, 1994
[New York?] : Limón Institute, 1994
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by Limón, José
Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, 1998
Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, 1998
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by Limón, José
Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, 1998
Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, 1998
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by Limón, José
Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, 1999
Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, 1999
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by Limón, José
Hanover, N.H. : Wantage : Wesleyan University Press ; University Presses Marketing, 2001
Hanover, N.H. : Wantage : Wesleyan University Press ; University Presses Marketing, 2001
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by Limón, José
Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, 1998
Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, 1998
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by Limón, José Eduardo
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992
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by Limón, José Eduardo
[Austin, Tex.] : Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1987
[Austin, Tex.] : Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1987
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by Limón, José Eduardo
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Center for Chicano research, 1986
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Center for Chicano research, 1986
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by Limón, José Eduardo
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Center for Chicano Research, 1986
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Center for Chicano Research, 1986
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by Limón, José Eduardo
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1994
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1994
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by Limón, José Eduardo
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992
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by Limón, José Eduardo
Boston : Beacon Press, 1998
Boston : Beacon Press, 1998
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Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992
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