Choreographer Jose Limon

Jose Limon

Living place: Mexico

Birthday: 12-1-1908

Global rank: #44536

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Who is Choreographer Jose Limon?
Most remembered for Pavane's Moor, a 1949 dance piece based on Othello, this Mexican-born choreographer and dancer is also notable for his "Limon technique" training in modern dance. During his career, he taught at the Juilliard School and the early Dance Theater of America's Lincoln Center.
During the years of World War II, he staged a piece titled Concerto Grosso for the United States Army Special Services.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After studying visual arts at both the University of California-Los Angeles and the New York School of Design, he trained as a dancer. He made his Broadway debut in 1930; a decade later, he founded his famous Limon Dance Company.

Family life info

One of ten siblings, he spent his early years in Culiacan, Mexico, and most of his childhood in Los Angeles, California. Sadly, he and his wife both died of cancer in 1970.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Choreographer Jose Limon?
He was a dancer in a Charles Weidman choreographed Broadway production of the musical Irving Berlin As Thousands of Cheers.

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When was Choreographer Jose Limon born?
Jose Limon was born in 12-1-1908, death year is , at the age of 116.
Where is Choreographer Jose Limon's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Jose Limon was born in . is a Choreographer, whose Zodiac is Capricorn, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. Jose Limon's global rank is 44536 and whose rank is 33 in list of famous Choreographer.
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Events in 1908 and 12-1

Events in the world in the birth year of Jose Limon

  • Earthquake and resulting tsunami kill 70,000 to 100,000 in southern Italy and Sicily.
  • Petroleum production starts in Middle East.
  • Mysterious Siberian explosion levels hundreds of square miles of forest. Explanations include a comet, meteorite, natural atomic explosion, or crashed UFO.

Birthday Jose Limon (12-1) in history

  • Day 12-1 year 1773: The first public museum in the United States was established in Charleston, South Carolina
  • Day 12-1 year 1896: H. L. Smith took the first X-ray photograph. It was a hand with a bullet in it.
  • Day 12-1 year 1915: The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a proposal to give women the right to vote.
  • Day 12-1 year 1932: Hattie W. Caraway, a democrat from Arkansas became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
  • Day 12-1 year 1964: One month after Zanzibar became independent, the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party was overthrown in a violent coup.
  • Day 12-1 year 1991: A divided Congress gave President Bush the go-ahead on the Persian Gulf War.
  • Day 12-1 year 1998: Nineteen European countries signed an agreement banning human cloning.
  • Day 12-1 year 2010: Haiti is dealt a catastrophic blow when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the country's capital. It is the region's worst earthquake in 200 years. The number of fatalities were between 46,000 and 85,000 people.
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