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José Arcadio Limón is born in Cukican Mexico
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José graduated from Los Angeles' Lincoln High School in 1926 and enrolled at the UCLA, to study art.
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José left UCLA and the art program
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José moved to New York
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Limón attended a dance performance by Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi and was inspired to begin training as a dancer.
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Limón started to develope his skills as a choreographer.
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He studied with Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman at the Humphrey-Weidman Studio and later started performing there.
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He created his first important work, Danzas Mexicanas.
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José was disgusted with the commercialized of Broadway dance, so he had left for the West Coast to form a duet company with May O'Donnell and her husband, composer Ray Green. He met and married his wife, Pauline Lawrence this time.
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José's dance career was put on hold when he was called for military duties during World War II.
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He was released for the Services however, by this time Humphrey-Weidman Dance School and Company had shut down due to financial problems and the co-founders had gone their separate ways.
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Limón became a U.S. citizen
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Limón start his own company, which he named The Limón Dance Company. Doris Humphrey, his mentor and teacher, as Artistic Director and co-choreographer teaches there.
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The José Limón Dance Company has its debut performance at New York’s Belasco Theater.
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José receives his first Dance Magazine Award, for The Moor’s Pavane.
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José began taching and cheorographing at the Julliard School in New York
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José was appointed a Cultural Ambassador for the Government. His Company travelled to South America on an exchange program where they toured and performed in a variety of different cities during this time as well.
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Doris Humphrey’s passed away which caused the partnership between Humphrey and Limón to come to an end.
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Limón and his wife were diagnosed with cancer.
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He had established the José Limón Dance Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to Limón’s passion of developing modern dance.
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José was deeply saddened by this wife's died in 1971, however the Company continued to performed with their final season being in 1972, where Limón premiered his final piece, called Carlota.
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José Arcadio Limón died from Prostate Cancer
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After Limón’s death, the company continued to perform under the direction of Carla Maxwell, who was later appointed Artistic Director