Limon Dance Company
In a way, that’s to be expected; American society has changed, and good art reflects the changes. Yet it’s amazing that 49 years after its founding–it’s the oldest modern-dance company in the world–the Limon Company can still communicate Humphrey’s indomitable spirit to a society with decidedly different concerns. And they succeeded in doing this in most of her dances on this program, which opened the 1995 Spring Festival of Dance.
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Limon Dance Company was founded in 1946 by dancer Jose Limon, with Humphrey as artistic director. After Humphrey retired, Limon, a major choreographic figure in his own right, assumed artistic control, and in 1964 he created A Choreographic Offering as a tribute to his lifelong mentor. From a purely intellectual perspective, the piece is interesting because it shows how Humphrey’s technique evolved and adapted. But it was one of the weakest pieces on this program, having none of the passion for which Limon was so famous and conveying nothing about Limon’s feelings toward a woman whose work he so obviously admired.
