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Humphrey and Limón: Firsthand Observations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

Ann Vachon
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Abstract

Limón became a student and devoted follower of Doris Humphrey in 1929 and continued working with her until her death thirty years later. In his memoir he wrote about the brilliance of her dancing and her choreography and even admits in one passage to “plagiarizing” her work. This presentation explores how their evolving relationship was viewed by various individuals who were present during their working process and whose memories of their interaction differ considerably.

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Research Article
Information
Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings , Volume 39 , supplement S1: Choreographies Of Migration: Patterns Of Global Mobility , 2007 , pp. 200 - 205
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2007

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Notes

1. Limón: A Life Beyond Words, directed by Roth, Malachi, produced by Vachon, Ann and Hinte, Jeff Levy (Dance Conduit, Inc., 2004).Google Scholar

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3. Nona Schurman, interview with the author, March 1996.

4. Excerpt from Limons handwritten autobiography, probably begun in 1971 or 1972, in the Jerome Robbins Dane Collection at Lincoln Center, New York Public Library; gift of Charles Tomlinson, transcribed by Ann Vachon, June 1996, p. 109. This was later published in an edited version by Garafola, Lynn as José Limón: An Unfinished Memoir (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1998).Google Scholar

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8. Ibid., 174–75.

9. Ibid., 171.

10. Ibid., 179.

11. Ibid., 188.

12. Miriam Pandor, interview with the author, January 17, 2007.

13. Ibid.

14. Betty Jones, interview with the author, June 13, 2007.

15. Betty Jones, interview with the author, July 6, 1996.

16. Rosa Reyna, interview with the author, April 12, 1996.

17. Alvin Schulman, interview with the author, August 26, 2007.

18. Michael Hollander, email to the author, October 24, 2007.

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20. Ibid., 57.

21. Ibid., 60.

22. Ibid., 61.

23. Ibid., 61–62.

24. Ibid., 66.

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