Jose Limon Essay

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On January 12th 1908 in Mexico Jose Limon was born, a dancer, choreographer and performer. He was recognised for his Modern Dance ability which had been developed into his own Limon style and is still familiar in day to day performances. In the early life of Jose Limon his first talent was studying Art at a University in California but later moved to New York where he found his passion for dance after being inspired by two well-known dancers Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi who he had seen performing. With this allowing Limon to discover his desire to dance he began studying and training with Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. Later he began performing professionally with the company and was being recognised. In 1940 Limon had been recognised for appearing in a number of Broadway Productions such as Americana and As Thousands Cheer. Round about the same time was when he met his wife Pauline Lawrence through the company. He helped …show more content…

His company have had many opportunities of giving the first dance performance to open up events and venues. These, being at the New York Shakespeare Festival Theatre and New York Lincoln Centre gave them the opportunity to have their style acknowledged. Limon’s work reflected in The Moor’s Pavane, a dance inspired by Shakespeare that happened to win an award for the most outstanding choreography. His choreography was to express his relationship with the outside world and to demonstrate the idea of body weight. He creates the logic of fall and recovery in his movement showing his strength and being able to portray a theatrical sense with hand, shoulders and leg movement. He was never one to have everything structured as this restricted creativity and he wanted his movement to flow continuously, so he used his breath to help his do

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