The José Limón National Center for Dance Research, Documentation and Information was founded on January 14th of 1983. Its purpose is to articulate theory and practice in texts that seek to be attractive and accessible to dance practitioners, to analyze the conceptual and esthetic proposals that define the variety of dance styles characteristic of different historical periods, and to protect the materials that testify to the contribution of dance practitioners to performance arts. Today researchers and documentalists sustain an essential academic dialogue with the Mexican dance community which nurtures our research on dance pedagogy, criticism, theory, therapy and history.