Silver: Limon lives through Carla's passionate preservative - Maxwell's - includes info about Limon Dance San Jose as well as Limon Dance Company NYC

Dance Magazine, July, 2003 by Robert Tracy

* Outreach: Master classes, teacher-training workshops, and lecture-demonstrations in New York City public schools are offered through Limon Institute Nurturing Kids (LINKs); master teachers restage Limon works in colleges and universities; and the company conducts residency programs when on tour.

Jose Limon formed his dance company in 1946 with his teacher and mentor, Doris Humphrey, as artistic director. The company performs the works of its founders and commissions works from contemporary choreographers, including Meredith Monk, Jiri Kylian, Doug Varone, and Kurt Jooss. [] The company was the first group to tour under the American Culture Exchange Program in 1954 and the first dance troupe to perform at Lincoln Center in 1963. Along with the Limon Institute, which conducts educational programs and oversees licensing of the Limon repertoire, The Limon Dance Company is guided by the Jose Limon Dance Foundation, whose mission is to keep classic American modern dance alive.

LIMON DANCE SAN JOSE

LIMON DANCE SAN JOSE

C/O SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY

1 WASHINGTON SQUARE, SAN JOSE, CA 95192

408.924.5046

PROGRAM MANAGER: Elizabeth Price EPRICE@LIMON.ORG

The Limon Dance Company has had a West Coast presence since 1994, when Gary Masters, a former Limon dancer and the director of San Jose operations for The Limon Dance Company, created a California training center and ensemble, The Limon West Dance Project of San Jose. The ensemble disbanded in the late 1990s, but the training center remains, now called Limon Dance San Jose. [] Limon technique is also taught at San Jose State University, where Masters is a professor of modern dance along with Fred Mathews, a former Limon Dance Company member. Current Limon company members visit periodically to teach master classes to students in SJSU's School of Music and Dance. [] The Limon company's twelfth annual West Coast workshop takes place at Mills College in Oakland, California July 13-25, 2003. (It will return to SJSU in 2004.) Carla Maxwell, along with Limon Company greats Clay Taliaferro, Sarah Stackhouse, Nina Watt, and Ann Vachon, will teach technique and repertoire. This summer the Limon teachers will reconstruct the solo Danzos Mexicanas, which drew on symbolic figures of Mexico's history. While working on this choreography on the Mills campus in 1939, Limon wrote (in Jose Limon: An Unfinished Memoir), "Living became a sublime adventure. There were moments when I seemed to explode, and the fragile, fleshly envelope and the four confining walls were shattered into oblivion, and the only reality was a convulsive blinding consummation, I worked like a madman. While making these dances, I grew up."

Robert Tracy is the author of Balanchine's Ballerinas: Conversations With the Muses; Goddess: Martha Graham's Dancers Remember; and Spaces of the Mind: Isamu Noguchi's Dance Designs.