- Like
Jose Greco, Limon wanted to be a painter although, he quit
painting to become a dancer his love for it never died.
His family moved to the U.S. when he was 7 (first to
Arizona, then California), where he attended Catholic
school and continued his drawing and painting.
- Later
he went to New York in 1928 and joined the Humphrey-Weidman
Studio performing with them untill 1940. Limon went into
the U.S. Army in 1943. In 1945 he formed his own dance company
with Doris Humphrey as his artistic director for many years
(1946-1958). His first major work was 'The Moor's Pavane'.
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