DanceMotion USASM is a program of the Bureau PARTNERS of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State, produced by BAM (Brooklyn US Department of State Bureau of Educational Academy of Music) to facilitate cultural exchange and Cultural Affairs while showcasing the best in contemporary The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs American dance abroad. (ECA) promotes international mutual understanding through a wide range of academic, cultural, From September 2015 to June 2016, three private-sector, professional, and sports exchange dance companies are participating in month- programs. ECA exchanges engage youth, students, long residencies, each in a different region of the educators, artists, athletes, and emerging leaders world: BODYTRAFFIC in the Middle East, Dance in many fields in the US and more than 160 Heginbotham in Southeast Asia, and the Limón countries. Alumni of ECA exchanges comprise over Dance Company in Southern Africa. one million people around the world, including more than 50 Nobel Laureates and more than 300 BAM works with US embassies to establish current or former heads of state and government. partnerships with leading cultural, social service, and community organizations and educational BAM institutions, creating unique residencies that allow for cultural sharing and engagement. In addition BAM’s mission is to be the home for to person-to-person interactions, the program adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas. It offers even greater exposure to American dance to is America’s oldest performing arts institution a wider audience through active social and digital and is recognized internationally for presenting presents media engagement, online educational resources, innovative dance, music, and theater and embassy and consulate libraries. programming on its various stages. BAM also features an acclaimed repertory film program, LIMÓN DANCE COMPANY Since the launch of DanceMotion USASM in 2010, literary and visual art events, and extensive 17 American dance companies have toured to educational and family programming. Select various regions around the globe, including Sub- events are now streamed worldwide online. Saharan and Northern Africa, South America, the Founders José Limón and Middle East, the Iberian Peninsula, and Central, Doris Humphrey South, and Southeast Asia. Beginning in 2012, DanceMotion USASM began bringing foreign artists back to the US to collaborate with American Artistic Director Carla Maxwell artists, further expanding the cross-cultural STAY CONNECTED WITH US: exchange. The program has reached more than Associate Artistic Director Roxane D’Orléans Juste 100,000 people in 47 countries (and an additional 20 million people through digital platforms and BAM.org Executive Director Juan José Escalante social media), and has offered more than 500 dancemotionusa.org workshops worldwide. Technical Director Bill Schaffner exchanges.state.gov
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Kathryn Alter, David Glista, Ross Katen, Logan Frances Kruger, Elise Drew Leon, Brenna Monroe-Cook, Francisco Ruvalcaba, Mark Willis
A PROGRAM OF PRODUCED BY LIMÓN DANCE COMPANY WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY
produced the Full Moon Shows at PS 122. and choreographers such as Shen Wei Dance The José Limón Dance Foundation, Inc. is He designed the lighting for the Bessie Arts, Adam Hewlett Weinert, Zack Winokur, supported with public funds from the National JOSÉ LIMÓN DANCE Award winning shows of Judith Ren Lay (The and Jonah Bokaer. Logan is a graduate of The Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council FOUNDATION Grandfather Tapes), Dancenoise (All The Rage), Juilliard School (BFA 2007) and joined the on the Arts with the support of Governor and Paul Zaloom (My Civilization). Among the Company in 2009. Andrew Cuomo and the New York Legislature; BOARD OF DIRECTORS many artists with whom he has had the honor and the New York City Department of Cultural Tomas Rossant, Chair; Robert A. Meister, Past and pleasure of working are Merce Cunningham ELISE DREW LEON (Dancer), originally Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Chair; Vice Chair; Rebeca Vargas, Treasurer; & John Cage, Nina Wiener, Pierre Dulaine & from Oxford, Connecticut, received her early Additional support is generously provided by the Ambassador Gabriel Guerra, Secretary; Fernando Yvonne Marceau, Alwin Nikolais & Murray training with the Brass City Ballet School before following institutions: Ambrosia Investments, Bohorquez, Paula Carriço, Paquito D’Rivera, Louis, Ballet Hispanico, Melinda Marquez, graduating from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program LLC, Bloomberg Philanthropies; Capezio Dance Gerardo de Nicolas, Sonia Garcia-Romero, Sandra Yanira Castro, and Souleymane Badolo. Theaters in Dance. She has performed with Camille A. Foundation; Casablanca Promotions, Inc.; Goujon de Aguilar Zinser, Louis Maldonado, in which he has played include the Kimo Brown and Dancers, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Citibank; d’exposito & Partners; Dubose and Maria Leticia Ossa Daza, Cecilia Picón, Armando Theater in Albuquerque, l’Opera Garnier de Pajarillo Pinta’o, TAKE Dance Company, the Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund; The Fan Fox Ramos, Ivan Sacks, Linda Sitnick. Paris, Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Santa Fe Opera, and Seán Curran Company. and Leslie R. Samuel Foundation, Inc.; Jody Palais de Papes in Avignon, and a Kiwanis Club Ms. Drew joined the Limón Dance Company and John Arnhold;The Gladys Krieble Delmas STAFF luncheon in Poughkeepsie. in 2010 and received a 2014 Princess Grace Foundation; Google Ad Grants; The Harkness Artistic Director, Carla Maxwell; Executive Dance Honorarium. Foundation for Dance; Henry and Lucy Moses Director, Juan José Escalante; Associate Artistic FRANCISCO RUVALCABA (Dancer), a native Fund; HOMEX; The Howard Gilman Foundation; Director, Roxane D’Orléans Juste; Licensing of San Diego, California, has toured with the ROSS KATEN (Dancer), originally from Oregon, The Jerome Robbins Foundation; The Khoury Director, Yasuko Tokunaga; Program Manager, Lincoln Center Institute, El Festival Nacional trained at Westside Dance Academy, The Foundation; Mesonix Investments Ltd; Mex-Am Becky Brown; Development Coordinator, Juliane é Internacional de Danza en México, and the Portland Ballet, and Arts & Communication Cultural Council; Miriam and Arthur Diamond Silveira; Program Associate, Katie Wilson; Innsbrook Festival of Ancient Music. A graduate Magnet Academy. Additionally Ross has Charitable Trust; New England Foundation for Lighting Supervisor, Christopher Chambers; of The Juilliard School, Mr. Ruvalcaba performed studied at The Juilliard School, Nashville the Arts; Ronald McDonald House Charities – Technical Director, Bill Schaffner; Wardrobe the works of José Limón, Paul Taylor, Mark Ballet, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and at NYTSA; The SHS Foundation; Staples Foundation; Supervisor, Keiko Voltaire. Morris, Jiríˇ Kylián, Benjamin Harkarvy, and Agnes the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. Southwest Airlines®; Withers Bergman LLP. De Mille. He joined the Company in 1996. Ross graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of For National Bookings: Elsie Management, the Arts in 2013 with a BFA in Dance. Ross 718-797-4577 / www.elsieman.org KATHRYN ALTER (Dancer) hails from Juneau, joined the Limón Company in 2013. Ross also Alaska. After attending Interlochen Arts performs with Chris Masters Dance and Chuck For International Bookings: Academy in Michigan, she went on to graduate Wilt’s Una Projects. Anna Amadei, 646-696-9528 / from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance [email protected] with the highest honors in 2001. In 2003, MARK WILLIS (Dancer), originally from New Ms. Alter joined the Company. She is also a York City, received his BFA in Dance from Press Representative: Audrey Ross/Publicity, founding member of the Riedel Dance Theater Montclair State University, where he performed 212-877-3399; [email protected] and has enjoyed projects with Alan Danielson the works of José Limón, Bill T. Jones, May The Limón Institute is the official school of the and Kazuko Hirabayashi, and often works as a O’Donnell, and Earl Mosley. He also received Limón Dance Company, offering Limón Technique guest teacher and choreographer. the Spirit of Dance Award from the Department classes at Peridance Capezio Center in New York of Theatre and Dance. Mark has worked with City, as well as West and East coast summer BRENNA MONROE-COOK (Dancer), originally Douglass Dunn and Dancers and White Wave/ programs for professional and pre-professional from Oak Park, Illinois, began her dance Young Soon Kim Dance Company, among dancers and teachers. Intensive workshops are training at the Academy of Movement and others. He joined LDC in spring 2015. offered in NYC with master teachers Risa Steinberg, Music and the Ruth Page Foundation. She Betty Jones, Carla Maxwell, Roxane D’Orléans Juste received her BFA from The Juilliard School, DAVID GLISTA (Dancer), originally from West and Clay Taliaferro, among others. The Professional performed with Limón from 2003-2007, Springfield, Massachusetts, is a graduate of Studies Program, accredited by the National and earned her MFA from the University of The Boston Conservatory with a BFA in Dance Association of Schools of Dance, offers nine months Washington in 2011. Ms. Monroe-Cook works Performance. At The Conservatory, he performed of intensive training. To enroll call Becky Brown at internationally, teaching Limón technique, works by José Limón, Anna Sokolow, Doug 212-777-3353, x18. The Institute also licenses repertoire, ballet, Pilates, and GYROKINESIS®. Varone, Alwin Nikolais, Paul Taylor, and Bill T. Limón’s dances. To license a dance, call Yasuko She rejoined the Company in 2013. Jones. Since graduating in 2013, David has been Tokunaga at 212-777-3353 x15. a member of Prometheus Dance, The People LOGAN FRANCES KRUGER (Dancer),born Movers, and The Anna Sokolow Theatre Dance The Limón Dance Company is a member and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, trained with Ensemble. David also works as a freelance set of Dance/USA, Dance/NYC, Association of Annette Lewis and Pamala Jones-Malavé, and lighting technician, and stage manager. Performing Arts Presenters, Western Arts among others. Professionally, Logan has Alliance, National Association of Schools of collaborated extensively with Michelle Mola, Dance, the Arts & Business Council, and the and has performed with various companies United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce. 1 6 WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY LIMÓN DANCE COMPANY
DORIS HUMPHREY (Founder and Choreographer, 1895-1958) is SUITE FROM MAZURKAS SUITE FROM THE WINGED recognized as one of the founders of American modern dance. She gave us a distinctive movement approach based on the body’s relationship to gravity and the use of weight, and her choreographic contributions First performed August 15, 1958 at the American First performed August 20, 1966 at the American are considered modern dance classics. The company she formed Dance Festival, New London, CT by the José Limón Dance Festival, New London, CT by the José Limón Dance Company Dance Company with Charles Weidman produced great dances as well as outstanding performers, José Limón among them. When physical disability ended her career as a dancer, she became the Artistic Director for José Choreography Choreography Limón and his company, creating new works for him as well as José Limón José Limón choreographing for The Juilliard Dance Theater. Music Music Frédéric Chopin Jon Magnussen “She was one of the half dozen women of great vision and total dedication, who succeeded in giving entity to what was really a new art, if any art worthy of the name can ever be said to be new. “Wings seen and unseen bear us aloft.” Certainly, it was the first completely and incontestably American manifestation in our artistic history.” These dances were composed after a visit to John Martin, dance critic Poland in 1957 as a tribute to the heroic spirit of its people. The Company will perform a selected suite from the sections below. The Company will perform a selected suite CARLA MAXWELL (Artistic Director) joined Mr. Limón’s repertory in the U.S and abroad from the sections below. Dawn Chorus the Company in 1965, and soon became a and was named choreographer in residence for Nuptial Flight principal dancer under Limón’s direction. In the Venezuelan Contemporary Dance Company Opus 68, No 1 in c major Swifts 1975, she served as Assistant Artistic Director Coreoarte in 2009. Opus 41, No.1 Eros under Ruth Currier, and in 1978 she was Opus 41, No.3 Sky Rite appointed Artistic Director of the Limón Dance JUAN JOSÉ ESCALANTE (Executive Director) Opus 30, No.2 Duel Company. Under her direction, the Company joined the José Limón Dance Foundation in Opus 33, No.2 Feast of Harpies has developed into one of the finest repertory 2013 as Development Director and came to Opus 56, No.1 Borrowed Wings dance ensembles in the world. She received the organization with an impressive nonprofit Opus 17, No.4 Sphinx the 1995 Dance Magazine Award, and a 1998 management background from New York Posthumous in A minor Pegasus New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) City Ballet, where he worked as an Associate Opus 30, No. 4 Night Chorus Award “… for finding a creative present in Director of Finance, Miami City Ballet as the Opus 30, No. 3 the context of a revered past, and thereby Development Manager and Human Resources José Limón’s notes on The Winged, from offering choreographic opportunity to multiple Director, and Ballet Florida, where he served as “…a lovely suite of dances, Mazurkas is an “A Dance Is Never Finished”: generations of artists…”. Her work has also Executive Director from 2001 to 2004. He also uncomplicated response to music. Even more been honored by the governments of Colombia led the Orlando Ballet from 2009 to 2011 as than the movement, which hints at character “The Winged is about you and I and our dream and Mexico, and she was the recipient of a their Executive Director. Mr. Escalante holds a dancing, the treasure of this dance is how it that we have always had as human beings that 2002/2003 Isadora Duncan Award for her re- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration creates a private universe.” we can fly. We all want to fly…We fly in our staging of José Limón’s Psalm. Acclaimed as a and a Master’s Degree in Global Management. - Gia Kourlas, New York Times imagination, too. We have these flights of fancy, brilliant dramatic dancer, Maxwell has danced He has chaired the national committee for small these moments when our imagination takes many major roles with the Company, including and medium companies for DanceUSA, and us to far places on unseen wings. Sometimes the title role in Carlota, Limón’s final ballet that the Cultural Executive’s Committee for the Palm there are the wings of the spirit, so that we he choreographed for her. She is responsible Beach County Cultural Council. Mr. Escalante have many metaphors in The Winged. We for many of the Company’s reconstructions of was appointed Executive Director of the José have splendid wings, powerful wings, beautiful Limón’s dances and, as a choreographer, has Limón Dance Foundation on January 1st, 2014 wings, silly wings, funny wings – all of the created works and taught for the Company and and currently serves on the Advisory Board of ways of flights and attempted flight. So this others internationally. Dance NYC. work is not about birds actually, it’s about our obsession with the idea of flight”. ROXANE D’ORLÉANS JUSTE (Associate BILL SCHAFFNER (Technical Director) cut Artistic Director, appointed in 2007), joined his teeth in technical theater with the Garden “….a rich, soaring flood of dancing … Mr. the Limon Company in 1983 and is honored Theater Festival in Los Angeles, where Limón’s limitless flow of invention can rarely to interpret the signature works of the most his passion for working with dancers and have been more unforced and spirited.” distinguished voices of the modern dance performers was born. He went on to design - Clive Barnes and Deborah Jowitt field. She was awarded Canada’s prestigious lights and stage manage for the legendary punk Le Prix Jacqueline Lemieux and the New York performance artist Johanna Went. He moved to Dance Performance Bessie Award in 2006 for New York City in 1982 and started working with “Outstanding Sustained Achievement”. A guest downtown performers. With his collaborators teaching artist for the Tanz Theater Wuppertal/ The Full Moon Crew (The Alien Comic, Jo Pina Bausch Dance Company, she also stages Andres, Mimi Goese and Dancenoise), he
5 2 LIMÓN DANCE COMPANY ABOUT THE COMPANY
THERE IS A TIME Hailed as one of the world’s greatest dance companies, the Limón Dance Company has been at the vanguard of American Modern Dance since its inception in 1946. Having pioneered First performed April 20, 1956 at The Juilliard School of Notes About the Dance from Reviews: the idea that it was possible to survive the death of its founder, the Limón Dance Company Music, New York, NY by the José Limón Dance Company set an example for the entire dance field. Now, over the last four decades since Limon’s “It is a fine work. The gist of its intent seems passing, the Company has created a unique repertory that gives our audiences an overview Choreography to be a conviction that in spite of killing and of some of the best and most important choreography, new and old, in the dance world. The José Limón healing, mourning and laughing, breaking outstanding classic works of our creator/founders José Limón and Doris Humphrey, plus other Music down and building up, there is a continuity master artists, complement the exciting new creations that we commission each year. These to life that cannot be destroyed. To this end, Norman Dello Joio* works both extend the Limón legacy and contribute to a veritable treasure house of dance the choreographer has chosen the oldest of all symbols of eternity, the dance round, works. The Company is led by Carla Maxwell, who worked closely with Limón before becoming The entire work is, both choreographically taking up just where Doris Humphrey has Artistic Director in 1978. Under her leadership the Company now boasts producing over 90 and musically, a theme with variations. The left off, and he has used it superbly. There works by choreographers other than Humphrey, Weidman or Limón during its near 70 year choreographer used as his theme a large circle, is a wealth of beautiful movement, stunning history. This oeuvre represents 42 choreographers and 43 new commissions or acquisitions which, at the opening of the work, fills the phrases, rich invention.” by such luminaries as Lar Lubovitch, Doug Varone, Ralph Lemon, Garth Fagan, Donald stage and moves majestically as if to evoke the - John Martin, New York Times, McKayle, Murray Louis, Susanne Linke, Meredith Monk, Alwin Nikolais, Anna Sokolow, interminable passage of time. This circle is seen May 1956 repeatedly in many guises, rhythms and dramatic Rodrigo Pederneiras, and Jiríˇ Kylián. The Limón Dance Company has achieved many important shapes, always making allusion to the text from milestones: it was the first group to tour under the auspices of the American Cultural Exchange Chapter 3 of Ecclesiastes and its evocation of “The dance motifs are sharply focused and Program (1954), the first dance troupe to perform at Lincoln Center (1963), and has had the human experience. often brilliantly expressive. Everything is tightly honor of appearing twice at The White House (1967 and 1995). The Company is one of two knitted around Norman Dello Joio’s score, and components of the José Limón Dance Foundation, which also conducts educational programs The Company will perform a selected suite the dances show an almost tender regard for and disseminates the Limón repertory through the Limón Institute. Most recently, the José from the sections below. space and time. Emotionally the work shows Limón Dance Foundation was awarded a 2008 National Medal of the Arts, the nation’s highest a constant interplay of light and shade, so the honor for artistic excellence. “To everything there is a season, and a time to fierce intensity of ‘A time to keep silence, and a every purpose under heaven;” time to speak’; is soon relieved by the release “A time to be born, and a time to die;” of ‘a time to laugh’.” “A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that - Clive Barnes, Dance and Dancers, WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY which is planted;” November 1957 “A time to kill;” “And a time to heal;” JOSÉ LIMÓN (Founder/Choreographer, 1908-1972) electrified the world with his dynamic masculine dancing and dramatic choreography. One of “A time to break down, and a time to build up;” “There is a Time has in fact not aged. Emotion the 20th century’s most important and influential dance makers, he spent “A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;” surges today (as it must have sprung forth in his entire career pioneering a new art form and fighting for the recognition “A time to mourn; …and a time to weep;” 1956) from full and “felt” movements which and establishment of the American Modern Dance. Born in Culiacán, “A time to laugh…a time to dance;” irradiate the underpinning of the dance. The Mexico in 1908, he moved to California in 1915, and in 1928 Limón “A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from premise itself is of a vivid timeliness. In There is came to New York and saw his first dance program. Limón enrolled in the embracing;” a Time, Limón manifests a profound humanism; dance school of Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman and, from 1930 “A time to hate, a time of war;” the values of peace and justice always end in to 1940, performed in several works. In 1946, with Doris Humphrey as “A time to love…a time of peace;” conquering violence and oppression.” Artistic Director, Limón formed his own company. Over the following 25 - L’Humanité, Lyon, France, years, he established himself and his company as one of the major forces *Meditations on Ecclesiastes, commissioned for September 1986 José Limón by The Juilliard Music Foundation of 20th century dance. Limón was a key faculty member in The Juilliard and its Festival of American Music, April 1956. School’s Dance Division and continued choreographing until his death in 1972. Limón choreographed a total of seventy-four works, including The This score earned the composer the Pulitzer Prize in 1957. Meditations on Ecclesiastes © 1959 by Moor’s Pavane, Missa Brevis, and Psalm. Carl Fischer, Inc.
There is a Time is made possible thanks to major support from the National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpiece: Dance initiative. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, American Express, and with in-kind support from SUNY College at Brockport and Nazareth College.
3 4 LIMÓN DANCE COMPANY ABOUT THE COMPANY
THERE IS A TIME Hailed as one of the world’s greatest dance companies, the Limón Dance Company has been at the vanguard of American Modern Dance since its inception in 1946. Having pioneered First performed April 20, 1956 at The Juilliard School of Notes About the Dance from Reviews: the idea that it was possible to survive the death of its founder, the Limón Dance Company Music, New York, NY by the José Limón Dance Company set an example for the entire dance field. Now, over the last four decades since Limon’s “It is a fine work. The gist of its intent seems passing, the Company has created a unique repertory that gives our audiences an overview Choreography to be a conviction that in spite of killing and of some of the best and most important choreography, new and old, in the dance world. The José Limón healing, mourning and laughing, breaking outstanding classic works of our creator/founders José Limón and Doris Humphrey, plus other Music down and building up, there is a continuity master artists, complement the exciting new creations that we commission each year. These to life that cannot be destroyed. To this end, Norman Dello Joio* works both extend the Limón legacy and contribute to a veritable treasure house of dance the choreographer has chosen the oldest of all symbols of eternity, the dance round, works. The Company is led by Carla Maxwell, who worked closely with Limón before becoming The entire work is, both choreographically taking up just where Doris Humphrey has Artistic Director in 1978. Under her leadership the Company now boasts producing over 90 and musically, a theme with variations. The left off, and he has used it superbly. There works by choreographers other than Humphrey, Weidman or Limón during its near 70 year choreographer used as his theme a large circle, is a wealth of beautiful movement, stunning history. This oeuvre represents 42 choreographers and 43 new commissions or acquisitions which, at the opening of the work, fills the phrases, rich invention.” by such luminaries as Lar Lubovitch, Doug Varone, Ralph Lemon, Garth Fagan, Donald stage and moves majestically as if to evoke the - John Martin, New York Times, McKayle, Murray Louis, Susanne Linke, Meredith Monk, Alwin Nikolais, Anna Sokolow, interminable passage of time. This circle is seen May 1956 repeatedly in many guises, rhythms and dramatic Rodrigo Pederneiras, and Jiríˇ Kylián. The Limón Dance Company has achieved many important shapes, always making allusion to the text from milestones: it was the first group to tour under the auspices of the American Cultural Exchange Chapter 3 of Ecclesiastes and its evocation of “The dance motifs are sharply focused and Program (1954), the first dance troupe to perform at Lincoln Center (1963), and has had the human experience. often brilliantly expressive. Everything is tightly honor of appearing twice at The White House (1967 and 1995). The Company is one of two knitted around Norman Dello Joio’s score, and components of the José Limón Dance Foundation, which also conducts educational programs The Company will perform a selected suite the dances show an almost tender regard for and disseminates the Limón repertory through the Limón Institute. Most recently, the José from the sections below. space and time. Emotionally the work shows Limón Dance Foundation was awarded a 2008 National Medal of the Arts, the nation’s highest a constant interplay of light and shade, so the honor for artistic excellence. “To everything there is a season, and a time to fierce intensity of ‘A time to keep silence, and a every purpose under heaven;” time to speak’; is soon relieved by the release “A time to be born, and a time to die;” of ‘a time to laugh’.” “A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that - Clive Barnes, Dance and Dancers, WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY which is planted;” November 1957 “A time to kill;” “And a time to heal;” JOSÉ LIMÓN (Founder/Choreographer, 1908-1972) electrified the world with his dynamic masculine dancing and dramatic choreography. One of “A time to break down, and a time to build up;” “There is a Time has in fact not aged. Emotion the 20th century’s most important and influential dance makers, he spent “A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;” surges today (as it must have sprung forth in his entire career pioneering a new art form and fighting for the recognition “A time to mourn; …and a time to weep;” 1956) from full and “felt” movements which and establishment of the American Modern Dance. Born in Culiacán, “A time to laugh…a time to dance;” irradiate the underpinning of the dance. The Mexico in 1908, he moved to California in 1915, and in 1928 Limón “A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from premise itself is of a vivid timeliness. In There is came to New York and saw his first dance program. Limón enrolled in the embracing;” a Time, Limón manifests a profound humanism; dance school of Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman and, from 1930 “A time to hate, a time of war;” the values of peace and justice always end in to 1940, performed in several works. In 1946, with Doris Humphrey as “A time to love…a time of peace;” conquering violence and oppression.” Artistic Director, Limón formed his own company. Over the following 25 - L’Humanité, Lyon, France, years, he established himself and his company as one of the major forces *Meditations on Ecclesiastes, commissioned for September 1986 José Limón by The Juilliard Music Foundation of 20th century dance. Limón was a key faculty member in The Juilliard and its Festival of American Music, April 1956. School’s Dance Division and continued choreographing until his death in 1972. Limón choreographed a total of seventy-four works, including The This score earned the composer the Pulitzer Prize in 1957. Meditations on Ecclesiastes © 1959 by Moor’s Pavane, Missa Brevis, and Psalm. Carl Fischer, Inc.
There is a Time is made possible thanks to major support from the National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpiece: Dance initiative. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, American Express, and with in-kind support from SUNY College at Brockport and Nazareth College.
3 4 WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY LIMÓN DANCE COMPANY
DORIS HUMPHREY (Founder and Choreographer, 1895-1958) is SUITE FROM MAZURKAS SUITE FROM THE WINGED recognized as one of the founders of American modern dance. She gave us a distinctive movement approach based on the body’s relationship to gravity and the use of weight, and her choreographic contributions First performed August 15, 1958 at the American First performed August 20, 1966 at the American are considered modern dance classics. The company she formed Dance Festival, New London, CT by the José Limón Dance Festival, New London, CT by the José Limón Dance Company Dance Company with Charles Weidman produced great dances as well as outstanding performers, José Limón among them. When physical disability ended her career as a dancer, she became the Artistic Director for José Choreography Choreography Limón and his company, creating new works for him as well as José Limón José Limón choreographing for The Juilliard Dance Theater. Music Music Frédéric Chopin Jon Magnussen “She was one of the half dozen women of great vision and total dedication, who succeeded in giving entity to what was really a new art, if any art worthy of the name can ever be said to be new. “Wings seen and unseen bear us aloft.” Certainly, it was the first completely and incontestably American manifestation in our artistic history.” These dances were composed after a visit to John Martin, dance critic Poland in 1957 as a tribute to the heroic spirit of its people. The Company will perform a selected suite from the sections below. The Company will perform a selected suite CARLA MAXWELL (Artistic Director) joined Mr. Limón’s repertory in the U.S and abroad from the sections below. Dawn Chorus the Company in 1965, and soon became a and was named choreographer in residence for Nuptial Flight principal dancer under Limón’s direction. In the Venezuelan Contemporary Dance Company Opus 68, No 1 in c major Swifts 1975, she served as Assistant Artistic Director Coreoarte in 2009. Opus 41, No.1 Eros under Ruth Currier, and in 1978 she was Opus 41, No.3 Sky Rite appointed Artistic Director of the Limón Dance JUAN JOSÉ ESCALANTE (Executive Director) Opus 30, No.2 Duel Company. Under her direction, the Company joined the José Limón Dance Foundation in Opus 33, No.2 Feast of Harpies has developed into one of the finest repertory 2013 as Development Director and came to Opus 56, No.1 Borrowed Wings dance ensembles in the world. She received the organization with an impressive nonprofit Opus 17, No.4 Sphinx the 1995 Dance Magazine Award, and a 1998 management background from New York Posthumous in A minor Pegasus New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) City Ballet, where he worked as an Associate Opus 30, No. 4 Night Chorus Award “… for finding a creative present in Director of Finance, Miami City Ballet as the Opus 30, No. 3 the context of a revered past, and thereby Development Manager and Human Resources José Limón’s notes on The Winged, from offering choreographic opportunity to multiple Director, and Ballet Florida, where he served as “…a lovely suite of dances, Mazurkas is an “A Dance Is Never Finished”: generations of artists…”. Her work has also Executive Director from 2001 to 2004. He also uncomplicated response to music. Even more been honored by the governments of Colombia led the Orlando Ballet from 2009 to 2011 as than the movement, which hints at character “The Winged is about you and I and our dream and Mexico, and she was the recipient of a their Executive Director. Mr. Escalante holds a dancing, the treasure of this dance is how it that we have always had as human beings that 2002/2003 Isadora Duncan Award for her re- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration creates a private universe.” we can fly. We all want to fly…We fly in our staging of José Limón’s Psalm. Acclaimed as a and a Master’s Degree in Global Management. - Gia Kourlas, New York Times imagination, too. We have these flights of fancy, brilliant dramatic dancer, Maxwell has danced He has chaired the national committee for small these moments when our imagination takes many major roles with the Company, including and medium companies for DanceUSA, and us to far places on unseen wings. Sometimes the title role in Carlota, Limón’s final ballet that the Cultural Executive’s Committee for the Palm there are the wings of the spirit, so that we he choreographed for her. She is responsible Beach County Cultural Council. Mr. Escalante have many metaphors in The Winged. We for many of the Company’s reconstructions of was appointed Executive Director of the José have splendid wings, powerful wings, beautiful Limón’s dances and, as a choreographer, has Limón Dance Foundation on January 1st, 2014 wings, silly wings, funny wings – all of the created works and taught for the Company and and currently serves on the Advisory Board of ways of flights and attempted flight. So this others internationally. Dance NYC. work is not about birds actually, it’s about our obsession with the idea of flight”. ROXANE D’ORLÉANS JUSTE (Associate BILL SCHAFFNER (Technical Director) cut Artistic Director, appointed in 2007), joined his teeth in technical theater with the Garden “….a rich, soaring flood of dancing … Mr. the Limon Company in 1983 and is honored Theater Festival in Los Angeles, where Limón’s limitless flow of invention can rarely to interpret the signature works of the most his passion for working with dancers and have been more unforced and spirited.” distinguished voices of the modern dance performers was born. He went on to design - Clive Barnes and Deborah Jowitt field. She was awarded Canada’s prestigious lights and stage manage for the legendary punk Le Prix Jacqueline Lemieux and the New York performance artist Johanna Went. He moved to Dance Performance Bessie Award in 2006 for New York City in 1982 and started working with “Outstanding Sustained Achievement”. A guest downtown performers. With his collaborators teaching artist for the Tanz Theater Wuppertal/ The Full Moon Crew (The Alien Comic, Jo Pina Bausch Dance Company, she also stages Andres, Mimi Goese and Dancenoise), he
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produced the Full Moon Shows at PS 122. and choreographers such as Shen Wei Dance The José Limón Dance Foundation, Inc. is He designed the lighting for the Bessie Arts, Adam Hewlett Weinert, Zack Winokur, supported with public funds from the National JOSÉ LIMÓN DANCE Award winning shows of Judith Ren Lay (The and Jonah Bokaer. Logan is a graduate of The Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council FOUNDATION Grandfather Tapes), Dancenoise (All The Rage), Juilliard School (BFA 2007) and joined the on the Arts with the support of Governor and Paul Zaloom (My Civilization). Among the Company in 2009. Andrew Cuomo and the New York Legislature; BOARD OF DIRECTORS many artists with whom he has had the honor and the New York City Department of Cultural Tomas Rossant, Chair; Robert A. Meister, Past and pleasure of working are Merce Cunningham ELISE DREW LEON (Dancer), originally Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Chair; Vice Chair; Rebeca Vargas, Treasurer; & John Cage, Nina Wiener, Pierre Dulaine & from Oxford, Connecticut, received her early Additional support is generously provided by the Ambassador Gabriel Guerra, Secretary; Fernando Yvonne Marceau, Alwin Nikolais & Murray training with the Brass City Ballet School before following institutions: Ambrosia Investments, Bohorquez, Paula Carriço, Paquito D’Rivera, Louis, Ballet Hispanico, Melinda Marquez, graduating from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program LLC, Bloomberg Philanthropies; Capezio Dance Gerardo de Nicolas, Sonia Garcia-Romero, Sandra Yanira Castro, and Souleymane Badolo. Theaters in Dance. She has performed with Camille A. Foundation; Casablanca Promotions, Inc.; Goujon de Aguilar Zinser, Louis Maldonado, in which he has played include the Kimo Brown and Dancers, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Citibank; d’exposito & Partners; Dubose and Maria Leticia Ossa Daza, Cecilia Picón, Armando Theater in Albuquerque, l’Opera Garnier de Pajarillo Pinta’o, TAKE Dance Company, the Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund; The Fan Fox Ramos, Ivan Sacks, Linda Sitnick. Paris, Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Santa Fe Opera, and Seán Curran Company. and Leslie R. Samuel Foundation, Inc.; Jody Palais de Papes in Avignon, and a Kiwanis Club Ms. Drew joined the Limón Dance Company and John Arnhold;The Gladys Krieble Delmas STAFF luncheon in Poughkeepsie. in 2010 and received a 2014 Princess Grace Foundation; Google Ad Grants; The Harkness Artistic Director, Carla Maxwell; Executive Dance Honorarium. Foundation for Dance; Henry and Lucy Moses Director, Juan José Escalante; Associate Artistic FRANCISCO RUVALCABA (Dancer), a native Fund; HOMEX; The Howard Gilman Foundation; Director, Roxane D’Orléans Juste; Licensing of San Diego, California, has toured with the ROSS KATEN (Dancer), originally from Oregon, The Jerome Robbins Foundation; The Khoury Director, Yasuko Tokunaga; Program Manager, Lincoln Center Institute, El Festival Nacional trained at Westside Dance Academy, The Foundation; Mesonix Investments Ltd; Mex-Am Becky Brown; Development Coordinator, Juliane é Internacional de Danza en México, and the Portland Ballet, and Arts & Communication Cultural Council; Miriam and Arthur Diamond Silveira; Program Associate, Katie Wilson; Innsbrook Festival of Ancient Music. A graduate Magnet Academy. Additionally Ross has Charitable Trust; New England Foundation for Lighting Supervisor, Christopher Chambers; of The Juilliard School, Mr. Ruvalcaba performed studied at The Juilliard School, Nashville the Arts; Ronald McDonald House Charities – Technical Director, Bill Schaffner; Wardrobe the works of José Limón, Paul Taylor, Mark Ballet, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and at NYTSA; The SHS Foundation; Staples Foundation; Supervisor, Keiko Voltaire. Morris, Jiríˇ Kylián, Benjamin Harkarvy, and Agnes the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. Southwest Airlines®; Withers Bergman LLP. De Mille. He joined the Company in 1996. Ross graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of For National Bookings: Elsie Management, the Arts in 2013 with a BFA in Dance. Ross 718-797-4577 / www.elsieman.org KATHRYN ALTER (Dancer) hails from Juneau, joined the Limón Company in 2013. Ross also Alaska. After attending Interlochen Arts performs with Chris Masters Dance and Chuck For International Bookings: Academy in Michigan, she went on to graduate Wilt’s Una Projects. Anna Amadei, 646-696-9528 / from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance [email protected] with the highest honors in 2001. In 2003, MARK WILLIS (Dancer), originally from New Ms. Alter joined the Company. She is also a York City, received his BFA in Dance from Press Representative: Audrey Ross/Publicity, founding member of the Riedel Dance Theater Montclair State University, where he performed 212-877-3399; [email protected] and has enjoyed projects with Alan Danielson the works of José Limón, Bill T. Jones, May The Limón Institute is the official school of the and Kazuko Hirabayashi, and often works as a O’Donnell, and Earl Mosley. He also received Limón Dance Company, offering Limón Technique guest teacher and choreographer. the Spirit of Dance Award from the Department classes at Peridance Capezio Center in New York of Theatre and Dance. Mark has worked with City, as well as West and East coast summer BRENNA MONROE-COOK (Dancer), originally Douglass Dunn and Dancers and White Wave/ programs for professional and pre-professional from Oak Park, Illinois, began her dance Young Soon Kim Dance Company, among dancers and teachers. Intensive workshops are training at the Academy of Movement and others. He joined LDC in spring 2015. offered in NYC with master teachers Risa Steinberg, Music and the Ruth Page Foundation. She Betty Jones, Carla Maxwell, Roxane D’Orléans Juste received her BFA from The Juilliard School, DAVID GLISTA (Dancer), originally from West and Clay Taliaferro, among others. The Professional performed with Limón from 2003-2007, Springfield, Massachusetts, is a graduate of Studies Program, accredited by the National and earned her MFA from the University of The Boston Conservatory with a BFA in Dance Association of Schools of Dance, offers nine months Washington in 2011. Ms. Monroe-Cook works Performance. At The Conservatory, he performed of intensive training. To enroll call Becky Brown at internationally, teaching Limón technique, works by José Limón, Anna Sokolow, Doug 212-777-3353, x18. The Institute also licenses repertoire, ballet, Pilates, and GYROKINESIS®. Varone, Alwin Nikolais, Paul Taylor, and Bill T. Limón’s dances. To license a dance, call Yasuko She rejoined the Company in 2013. Jones. Since graduating in 2013, David has been Tokunaga at 212-777-3353 x15. a member of Prometheus Dance, The People LOGAN FRANCES KRUGER (Dancer),born Movers, and The Anna Sokolow Theatre Dance The Limón Dance Company is a member and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, trained with Ensemble. David also works as a freelance set of Dance/USA, Dance/NYC, Association of Annette Lewis and Pamala Jones-Malavé, and lighting technician, and stage manager. Performing Arts Presenters, Western Arts among others. Professionally, Logan has Alliance, National Association of Schools of collaborated extensively with Michelle Mola, Dance, the Arts & Business Council, and the and has performed with various companies United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce. 1 6 DanceMotion USASM is a program of the Bureau PARTNERS of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State, produced by BAM (Brooklyn US Department of State Bureau of Educational Academy of Music) to facilitate cultural exchange and Cultural Affairs while showcasing the best in contemporary The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs American dance abroad. (ECA) promotes international mutual understanding through a wide range of academic, cultural, From September 2015 to June 2016, three private-sector, professional, and sports exchange dance companies are participating in month- programs. ECA exchanges engage youth, students, long residencies, each in a different region of the educators, artists, athletes, and emerging leaders world: BODYTRAFFIC in the Middle East, Dance in many fields in the US and more than 160 Heginbotham in Southeast Asia, and the Limón countries. Alumni of ECA exchanges comprise over Dance Company in Southern Africa. one million people around the world, including more than 50 Nobel Laureates and more than 300 BAM works with US embassies to establish current or former heads of state and government. partnerships with leading cultural, social service, and community organizations and educational BAM institutions, creating unique residencies that allow for cultural sharing and engagement. In addition BAM’s mission is to be the home for to person-to-person interactions, the program adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas. It offers even greater exposure to American dance to is America’s oldest performing arts institution a wider audience through active social and digital and is recognized internationally for presenting presents media engagement, online educational resources, innovative dance, music, and theater and embassy and consulate libraries. programming on its various stages. BAM also features an acclaimed repertory film program, LIMÓN DANCE COMPANY Since the launch of DanceMotion USASM in 2010, literary and visual art events, and extensive 17 American dance companies have toured to educational and family programming. Select various regions around the globe, including Sub- events are now streamed worldwide online. Saharan and Northern Africa, South America, the Founders José Limón and Middle East, the Iberian Peninsula, and Central, Doris Humphrey South, and Southeast Asia. Beginning in 2012, DanceMotion USASM began bringing foreign artists back to the US to collaborate with American Artistic Director Carla Maxwell artists, further expanding the cross-cultural STAY CONNECTED WITH US: exchange. The program has reached more than Associate Artistic Director Roxane D’Orléans Juste 100,000 people in 47 countries (and an additional 20 million people through digital platforms and BAM.org Executive Director Juan José Escalante social media), and has offered more than 500 dancemotionusa.org workshops worldwide. Technical Director Bill Schaffner exchanges.state.gov
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