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...lifelong association with the pioneer teacher and choreographer Doris Humphrey. Under her guidance Limón began choreographing his own dances, but by the late 1940s had his own group, and with Mentor Humphrey as artistic director, polished his austere, flowing style. His major works include Missa Brevis and Emperor Jones. He is best remembered for The Moor's Pavane, created in 1949, a spare retelling of Othello that has become a dance classic...
...faced with the choice between amateur therapy and finicky, arid footnotes to Duchamp, the mind recoils. In fact, the term avant-garde has outlived its usefulness. The hard thing to face is not that the emperor has no clothes; it is that beneath the raiment, there is no emperor...
...endlessly inventive in incorporating the Duke's emblems with animals, flowers and armorials. If the whole does not seem as devotional an object as its possessors liked to profess, it is certainly something from the artifice of eternity that, in Yeats' phrase, might keep a drowsy emperor awake-in Byzantium or elsewhere...
...favorite with the American Ballet Theater. Less striking but still provocative were Dances for Isadora, which drew on the Duncan story to fashion a subtle metaphor of death-in-life and life-in-death, and Carlata, a mad court fantasy (danced to silence) about the widow of the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. Where is the permanent theater home that Limon deserves...
...best-known characters of Chinese folklore is Monkey, who is forever running amuck and terrorizing celestial Establishment figures like the Jade Emperor. As Stanley Karnow notes in his account of the Cultural Revolution, Monkey also happens to be one of Mao Tse-tung's favorite characters. He has even likened himself to Monkey in a poem, wielding the great cudgel of "class struggle" against his enemies and history...