A moving tribute

Last weekend, celebrated Taiwanese choreographer and dancer Lin Hwai-min thrilled Beijing with his signature piece Cursive. Now comes Lin's "mentor" Jose Limon.

In 1961, the Mexican pioneering choreographer and dancer of modern dance Jose Limon (1908-72) and his company toured Taiwan. In the audience was an excited 14-year-old Lin who had just started to study dancing.

"I saw Jose Limon doing Moor's Pavane, and I said, 'My God. I witnessed God dancing'. And that was the beginning," recalls Lin.