Voices of Exile and Hope

The on-campus performance aspect of Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, 1900 – 1955 will include dances featuring Limón Dance Company, Santa Barbara Dance Theater, and UCSB Dance Company. The work of Jose Limón will be featured by members of the company, as well as through student performances restaged by Alice Condodina (professor emerita). Santa Barbara Dance Theater will present new and recent works by Eric Parra and Rosie Herrera tapping into lineage and contemporary interpretations of the themes of Border Crossings.

Members of the Limón Dance Company will perform excerpts from Exiles (1950), Danzas Mexicanas (1939), and Chaconne (1942). UCSB Dance Company will perform “The Running Dance” from Psalm (1967), and a suite of dances from Missa Brevis (1958). Santa Barbara Dance Theater will share a restaging of Rosie Herrera’s Querida Herida (2018)—originally commissioned by the Limón Dance Company—and a new work La Luz/The Light (2023) by LDC dancer Eric Parra. Following the performance there will be a post-show Q&A with Limón Dance Company artistic director Dante Puleio, and SBDT guest choreographers Rosie Herrera and Eric Parra.

This event is co-organized with the Limón Dance Company, Santa Barbara Dance Theater, and UCSB Dance Company.

Image: José Limón, ‘Revolucionario,’ from Danzas Mexicanas 1939. Photo by John Lindquist © Houghton Library, Harvard University. Courtesy of Jerome Robbins Dance Division, NYPL