José Limón technique masterclass

Led by Brenna Monroe-Cook Thursday, October 23 6:45 - 8:45pm FREE

Academy of Movement & Music 2nd Floor Gymnasium 605 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL. (708) 848-2329

José Limón was a dancer and choreographer from Mexico who began his dance training with Doris Humphrey in 1929. His technique was informed by Humphrey’s own ideas about the body’s relationship with gravity. This masterclass will explore the hallmark principles of José Limón’s style: breath and its effect on movement; gravity and the play between resisting and succumbing to that force; the physics of opposition, momentum, and inertia, and how those can infuse movement with efficiency, power, and drama; complex rhythmic and textural dynamics; and the intertwining of form and freedom.

Brenna Monroe-Cook was a principal dancer with the Limón Dance Company and has been a teacher and répétiteur for the Limón Institute for over twenty years. Ms. Monroe-Cook holds a BFA from The Juilliard School and an MFA from the University of Washington with a focus on Educational Psychology in Dance Pedagogy. She is originally from Oak Park, IL., where she received her early dance training at the Academy of Movement & Music and the Ruth Page Foundation. Ms. Monroe-Cook is currently on faculty at California State University, Long Beach and is an Artist-in-Residence at Loyola University Chicago.

This masterclass is made possible by Loyola University Chicago’s Artist-in-Residence Fund