January 20 | 4:00 PM
Limon Master Class
Limon Artistic Director Carla Maxwell community workshop. For more information please email Isabelle Holmes
January 21 | 7:00 PM
'62 Center
Lecture: Anna Sokolow and Jose Limon: Colleagues, Friends, and Humanists
Join a discussion of these two giants of American Modern Dance with Carla Maxwell, Roxane D'Orleans Juste, Associate Artistic Director of the Limon Dance Company, and guests as they share their reflections of these seminal artists of the 20th century.
January 22 | 1:00 PM
Student/Dancer Luncheon
Place: TBD
January 24 | 6:00 PM
'62 Center
Limon Dinner Chat
Pre-performance wine & cheese talk with Carla Maxwell and audience in the CenterStage Lobby
For more information, please call 413-597-2425.
$3 Students / $10
The Limon Dance Company will revive Rooms (1955), Anna Sokolow's seminal
masterwork about urban alienation. The reconstruction of this groundbreaking
piece, including a new version of Kenyon Hopkins' jazz score performed here by
the Williams Jazz Ensemble, epitomizes the spirit of the company on the 100th
anniversary of Limon's birth. Founded in 1946 by the pioneering dancer and choreographer
Jose Limon (1908-1972, b. Culiacan, Mexico), Limon
is a company steeped in history and has had a tremendous impact on the
development of modern dance in the 20th century.
“The reason we need major
moderns such as Limón . . . on our dance menus is not just because they’re part
of our artistic heritage but because they’re often better than contemporary
choreographers who attack the same scores, subjects or themes . . . the
millennial Limón dancers still satisfy and then some.” The Los Angeles Times.
These performances are made possible by the W. Ford Schumann
’50 Endowment for the Arts and the Lipp Family Fund for Performing Artists.
