Jose! Born to Dance: The Story of Jose Limon (Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Children's Book Award (Awards))
by Susanna Reich
from Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
José was a boy with a song in his heart and a dance in his step. Born in Mexico in 1908, he came into the world kicking like a steer, and grew up to love to draw, play the piano, and dream. José's dreaming took him to faraway places. He dreamed of bullfighters and the sounds of the cancan dancers that he saw with his father. Dance lit a fire in José's soul.
With his heart to guide him, José left his family and went to New York to dance. He learned to flow and float and fly through space with steps like a Mexican breeze. When José danced, his spirit soared. From New York to lands afar, José Limón became known as the man who gave the world his own kind of dance.
¡OLÉ! ¡OLÉ! ¡OLÉ!
Susanna Reich's lyrical text and Raúl Colón's shimmering artwork tell the story of a boy who was determined to make a difference in the world, and did. José! Born to Dance will inspire picture book readers to follow their hearts and live their dreams.
Jose Limon: An Unfinished Memoir (Studies in Dance History)
by Jose Limon
from Wesleyan
I believe that we are never more truly and profoundly human than when we dance. --José LimónThough 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 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. With a level of detail that belies his sense of miraculous discovery, he chronicles his work with and appreciation of such 20th-century choreographic masters as Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Martha Graham, and George Balanchine. The memoir ends just as Limón has formed his own company.
You couldn't ask for better stewardship for these papers, which had been viewable until now only at the dance collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The Society of Dance History Scholars, with Lynn Garafola acting as editor, drove this project. Carla Maxwell, the current artistic director of the José Limón Dance Company, wrote the foreword; and Village Voice dance critic Deborah Jowitt penned the introduction. For a short time, at least, Limon lives again. --Jean Lenihan
A captivating illustrated autobiography of the early years of a major American choreographer.
Illustrated Dance Technique of Jose Limon (08506)
Se enseña por primera vez, de manera profesional en México, la técnica José Limón; indiferencia de las escuelas de danza. (José Limón, bailarín y coreógrafo ... and choreographer): An article from: Proceso
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Title: Se enseña por primera vez, de manera profesional en México, la técnica José Limón; indiferencia de las escuelas de danza. (José Limón, bailarÃn y coreógrafo mexicano-norteamericano)(TT: Taught for the first time, in a professional way in Mexico, José Limón's technique; indifference of dance schools) (TA: José Limón, Mexican-US dancer and choreographer)
Author: Rosario Manzanos
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 24, 1998
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
Issue: n1125 Page: p63(1)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
Dance Is a Moment: A Portrait of Jose Limon in Words and Pictures
by Barbara Pollack
from Princeton Book Co Pub
Jose Limon (The Library of American Choreographers)
by Jennifer Cady
from Rosen Central
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