The Limón Dance Company tries to shake up its image with a world premiere by Diego Vega Solorza and a reimagined “Emperor ...

Limón’s dance, based on the play by Eugene O’Neill, has long been something of a problem piece. Now, it is being updated to ...

José Limón's The Emperor Jones is relocated to Wall Street and a visually stunning new work from heralded Mexican ...

The José Limón Dance Foundation exists to perpetuate the Limón legacy and its humanistic approach to movement and theater, and to extend the vitality of that vision into the future, through ...

CARLA MAXWELL is a legacy keeper. Since 1978, she has been safeguarding a body of classic modern dance works, those of second-generation modern dance pioneer Jose Limon. "It's a paradox," Maxwell says ...

At a recent open rehearsal for the Limón Dance Company’s upcoming performances at The Joyce Theater, artistic director Dante Puleio told Observer that he “wanted to zero in on José’s perspective as an ...

The Limón Dance Company celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, having existed more years without its founder than with him. The company’s survival is an homage to the man and his work. Dancer and ...

From the 1940s through the '50s, American choreographers produced a raft of enduring masterpieces: There was Balanchine's "The Four Temperaments," Jerome Robbins's "Fancy Free," Martha Graham's ...

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