Alice Condodina, born in the US, graduated from Temple University and the Juilliard School and was principal dancer with the Limón Dance Company, under the directorship of José Limón. She is internationally recognized as a Limón Master Artist, in her role as teacher, reconstructor, and lecturer on Limón's dance legacy. Her New York-based dance company initially earned grants from the National Endowment on the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. For 35 years she has been a dancer and choreographer of modern American dance, opera ballet and dance theatre. As a choreographer, she created over fifty dance works which have been performed in Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and Russia. She created the Repertory-West Dance Company, Based at the Department of Dance, University of California (Santa Barbara), and served as its artistic director (1976-87), touring internationally as performer, choreographer, and producer of representative works by American artists such as José Limón, Anna Sokolow, Lucas Hoving, Louis Falco, Kathryn Posin, and Remy Charlip. In 2003 her contribution to the city of Santa Barbara in the art of dance were recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award. With the GNO, she reconstructed José Limón’s legacy choreography in the ballet The Moor’s Pavane (presented together with Paquita and Naples, Divertimento).