Choreography: José Limón

Music: Zoltán Kodály

Zoltán Kodály, the Hungarian composer, wrote Missa Brevis in Tempore Bellie at the end of World War II.  A Mass in time of war, it was completed under great hardship during the siege of Budapest.  Limón’s stirring choreography depicts an indomitable humanity rising up after near destruction.  The piece is a memento to cities destroyed during World War II and to those unconquerable qualities in human beings that compel the spirit to rise in hope and to survive.