Jose limon biography books

I believe that we are never more truly and profoundly human than when we dance. --José Limón Though he lived to be 64, it's always seemed that dancer-choreographer José Limón (1908-1972) was snatched from this earth prematurely.

For that reason, the appearance of Limón's unfinished biography--which has the same assured, sensitive quality as his dances--is such a treasure.

Limón's writings here tell of his childhood and early adult years. Born in Culiacán, Mexico, the eldest of 12 children, Limón showed great talent as a visual artist from early on.

His greatest works — The Moor's Pavane, La Malinche, The Traitor, A Choreographic Offering, There is a Time, Missa Brevis — extolled a humanism that endeared.

His greatest works — The Moor's Pavane, La Malinche, The Traitor, A Choreographic Offering, There is a Time, Missa Brevis — extolled a humanism that endeared.

José Arcadio Limón was a dancer and choreographer from Mexico and who developed what is now known as 'Limón technique'.

A captivating illustrated autobiography of the early years of a major American choreographer.

José!

This book is an exciting biography about José Limón, a world-famous dancer.

His family moved to the U.S. when he was 7 (first to Arizona, then California), where he attended Catholic school and continued his drawing and painting. It was not until the late '20s, when he moved to New York City to study art, that Limón saw his first dance concert and changed course entirely.

"I knew with shocking suddenness that until then I had not been alive or, rather, that I had yet to be born," he writes. Wi