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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The mystery of the creative process comes through in this picture-book biography of dancer Jose Limon, born in Mexico in 1908. Reich's (Clara Shumann: Piano Virtuoso) poetic language evokes the ...

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