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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First, fans saw one of the old masters in an old work: tall, dark-skinned José Limón in Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. Last week, they saw him again in a smashing new work by the same choreographer. Unlike her Lament, Choreographer Doris Humphrey's new Invention had no story and no characterization; it was pure dance, but with plenty of invention. By the time Limón & Co. (Betty Jones, Ruth Currier) had gotten through its four brief sections (a bright, gay solo, a duo, a meditative slow movement and a powerful recapitulation) they...
...command post overlooking Managua, he ordered a daily air patrol flown over the Gulf of Fonseca. He hustled supplies south to his National Guard patrols, who crossed the border and shot up a Costa Rican town. He cabled every Latin American republic that Nicaraguan exiles were meeting in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica, organizing an expedition to overthrow...
Grand Canyon without Pirouettes. Tall (6 ft.) and dynamic, Limón spent 2½ years in the Army (he got out in 1945) but lost none of his technique there. He believes in clarity of line and clarity of story in dancing, is one of the few modern dancers a non-aficionado audience can watch and understand through a whole program-Classical ballet, he thinks, is unAmerican. Says he: "The ballet is such a sophisticated vocabulary. It's perfect for the experiences of lords and ladies, princesses and fairies and other imaginary characters. But those...
Each time Limón puts on a recital, he has to borrow production money, pay it back from the box-office take. Says he: "We just barely break even. Everyone gets paid but me." What money he earns comes from a back-breaking teaching program: at Manhattan's Dance Players Studios, at the Katharine Dunham School, at Boston's Duncanbury School of the Arts, at Sarah Lawrence College...
...Limón knows "it would be easy to go to Hollywood and make a lot of money and buy an automobile and a suburban home. But for what? Anybody can be comfortable." (Not so averse to Broadway money, he danced in As Thousands Cheer and Keep off the Grass.) Says he: "I don't know what other way I'd want to spend my life. If I couldn't dance, I wouldn't want to live...