The grace and precision went hand in hand with many other aspects of the performance. I believe that it complimented the music greatly and vice versa. When the music was more smooth, slow and easy, so were their movements. Their gracefulness flowed with the sound that was being emitted around them. The precision in their grace is really what caught my attention. The way they were so precise with their movements yet did it in such a confident, fluid motion, that they really made seem effortless. When the music was more refined and calculated so was their footwork.
In the second dance when there was no music their grace and precision was even more crucial and integral to the dance. The way they moved gave more meaning to the story and gave the viewer more of a perspective of the mood, emotions, and everything going on around them. In a way, the movements, whether graceful, precise or both took the place of the music in giving the feelings to the scene. The viewer saw when things were more tense, when the dancers were more exact with their movements and also when things were more free and happy when the dancers were more graceful.
The dancers used they techniques of precision and grace at those perfect moments, that fit with exactly what we, the viewers, have in mind. Jose Limon incorporated them at the exact times when either it was the most integral part or when it complimented the others parts to make a successful, complete dance. All the parts of the dance are like the cogs in a machine and when they work together in such a unified way, one really sees all the effort that was put into it and all the beauty behind it. Precision and gracefulness were just two cogs in the overall smoothly, talented, teamwork filled machine that was all of those dances that we watched.