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Limón Dance Company

Tue Oct 14 - Sun Oct 19

The Limón Dance Company launches its 80th anniversary season with a bold, intergenerational program that honors eight decades of revolutionary modern dance by its founder, José Limón, while amplifying the voices of today. 

The program opens with a multi-generational restaging of Limón's 1942 solo Chaconne —a poignant meditation on form, dignity, and the elevation of the male figure, featuring live music. It continues with a new reconstruction of Limón’s The Emperor Jones (1956), a haunting portrait inspired by Eugene O’Neill’s play that explores authority, vulnerability, and the weight of self-mythology. This new reconstruction embraces contemporary costume and scenic design. 

Bridging history and innovation, the evening concludes with a world premiere of Jamelgos, by acclaimed choreographer, Diego Vega Solorza. In this powerful response to Limón’s classics by one of today’s most avant-garde Mexican choreographers, the new work explores and reflects on masculinity and the inherited legacies of gender interpretation in Mexican culture and promises a hopeful future. His choreography doesn’t merely respond to Limón’s legacy; it expands it, pushing the boundaries of what male identity and queer embodiment can look like on stage. A vital voice in Latin American dance, Vega Solorza brings a personal lens shaped by his experience as a queer Mexican man. Like Limón, his work confronts the realities of its time with choreography that is personal, urgent, and unapologetic.

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Special Performances
Curtain Chat: Wed, Oct 15

 

Run Time
90 minutes including intermission

 

Content Advisory
The Emperor Jones features images of violence and weaponry, including a prop gun and riding crop, Diego Vega Solorza’s new work will use haze and brief partial nudity.

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Funding Credits

Commissioning support for the creation of a new work by Diego Vega Solorza provided, in part, by The Joyce’s Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work.

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