Dance at the Music Center Presents Jose Limon Dance Company at the Ahmanson
Ahmanson Theatre, at the Music Center (135 North Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90012)
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The last date listed for Jose Limon Dance Company was Sunday March 26, 2006 / 2:00pm.
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Sondheim's Follies: Tony-Winning Broadway Hit at the Ahmanson
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The Kennedy Center's critically-acclaimed Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical Follies, currently nominated for eight 2012 Tony Awards, comes to the Ahmanson Theatre, where it's receiving equally stellar reviews. It's the haunting story of two troubled couples who reunite at the decrepit theater where the ladies once performed, facing the ghosts of the past and the harsh reality of the present. Featuring a memorable score by Sondheim, including such enduring songs as "Broadway Baby," "Losing My Mind" and "I'm Still Here," the show is also a riveting look at the deterioration of the American dream -- a crack in the plaster of the gilded age of Broadway. Director Eric Schaeffer is joined by much of his original cast -- with 41 performers, it's one of the largest ever on this stage -- as well as a 28-piece orchestra. Tony Award-winner Victoria Clark joins the production, while reprising their roles from the New York show are 2012 Tony nominees Jan Maxwell, Danny Burstein and Ron Raines. Learn More
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It was in the middle between traditional ballet and modern ballet. I liked that it had a break between the 3 themed pieces.Written on Mar 27 2006
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Quotes & Highlights
- "The quality of dancing [is] terrifically high...the dancers' effortlessness, their mastery of tone and manner, and their uncommon athletic skill were thrillingly consistent." --Washington Post
- "The Limon Dance Company remains a force in modern dance." --Seattle Times
- "As always with Limon's group pieces, the use of stage space and blocks of dancers--indeed, the whole sense of dance architecture--was a stunning achievement." --L.A. Times
Description
For 25 years, as Director and Co-founder of the Company with Doris Humphrey, Jose Limon honed his technique and choreography. He is the creator of such landmark works as The Moor's Pavane, Missa Brevis, and There is a Time. Limon's company has achieved international acclaim through tours and festival appearances that have taken the dancers around the globe: in 1950, they were the first American modern dance company to perform in Europe.
In 1967 and 1996, the Company performed at The White House. Today the dancers are led by Carla Maxwell, who worked closely with Limon before taking over as Artistic Director in 1978. The Company's repertory is a treasure house of choreography: with jewels of works by past and present masters including Donald McKayle, Antony Tudor, Jiri Kylian, Garth Fagan, Ralph Lemon, and Doug Varone.
The Limon technique is based upon the movement style and philosophy of theater developed by modern dance pioneers, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. In the early 1930's, both Weidman and Humphrey developed a dance vocabulary that worked in opposition to the strict rules of classical ballet. Their intention was twofold: to demonstrate human emotions in a less stylized manner than ballet; and to incorporate in their work the natural movement patterns of the body and its relation to gravity. Limon further developed their ideas for his own work and technique. The Limon technique is divided among various physical extremes: fall and recovery, rebound, weight, suspension, succession, and isolation. These ideas can be illustrated in the way a dancer uses the floor as a place from which to rise, return to and then rise from again. The way a dancer explores the range of movement between one extreme of freedom from gravity and the other of falling into it; for example, the movement of suspension just as the body is at the top of a leap, and the moment the body had fallen completely back to earth. There are many words and ideas that are immediately associated with the Limon technique, i.e. its humanism, its use of breath, musicality, lyricism, and its dramatic qualities; however, the overwhelming consensus is that through the movement is always demonstrated some physical expression of the human spirit.
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