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Article: Dance troupe keeps founder's vision alive.(Daily Break)

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The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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May 25, 2006
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Byline: SUE VANHECKE

BY SUE VANHECKE

CORRESPONDENT

WHEN JOSE LIMON, a Mexican immigrant who devoted the early years of his life to painting, saw his first dance concert while at college in New York City, it transformed his life.

"It was the moment of my rebirth," he's quoted in the biography "Dance Is a Moment: A Portrait of Jose Limon in Words and Pictures." " 'My God,' I said... 'where has this been all my life?' This is what I've always wanted to do. I did not know it."

Limon put down his paintbrush and enrolled in the school of Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman , modern dance pioneers. Within a month, he was performing. ...

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