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Limón Dance Company launches its 80th anniversary season with three works that represent the company’s past, present, and future. They not only celebrate José Limón, but demonstrate how his themes guide the company in fresh new ways. The evening opens with a vintage 10-minute solo, “Chaconne” (1942), adapted for this program as a welcoming and inclusive ensemble number, with a large, multi-generational cast of company dancers past and present, students, and faculty. In a restaging of “Emperor Jones” (1956) artistic director Dante Puleio moves a culturally outdated work into relevance. The news of the evening arrives in the finale with “Jamelgos,” a new work exploring queer masculinity by Diego Vega Solorza, who hails from the same region of Mexico as Limón.
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