José Limón
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José Limón
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José Arcadio Limón 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, 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 Humphre
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Mexican dancer and choreographer (1908–1972)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Lim%C3%B3n
date created:
2006-02-18T15:50:14Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T10:07:05Z
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