Sat 4/22 @ 7:30PM
In dance, the work of an influential choreographer can have repercussions long after they’re gone. Mexican-American choreographer and dance theorist Jose Limon, one of the foundational pioneers of modern dance, died in 1972, but the company he founded in 1946 lives on, still performing dance based on his ideas expanding the types of movement used in modern dance.
The Limon Dance Company’s 75th season is looking back on the company’s past and exploring how that will serve as a platform to move into the future. When the New York-based ensemble comes to Playhouse Square’s Mimi Ohio Theatre under the auspices of DanceCleveland, it will perform Waldstein Sonata, set to Beethoven’s Piano Sonata N, 21 in C Major — which will be played live by Piano Cleveland president, concert pianist Yaron Kohlberg.
The program will also feature a new piece called Only One Will Rise, by choreographer Olivier Tarpaga from Burkina Faso, now on the faculty at Princeton University. The work is said to “explor[e] the resilience of the human spirit.”
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