Choreography: José Limón
Music: Gunther Schuller

Like the arch-betrayer Judas Iscariot, the protagonist in this dance drama symbolizes all those tormented men who, loving too much, must hate; these men who to our own day must turn against their loyalties, friends and fatherlands, and in some fearful cataclysm of the spirit, betray them to the enemy.  Against a music score of dissonant violence, passion and tenderness, the tragedy of Judas is portrayed as if it were taking place in our time.