From studying dance as an undergraduate to working and teaching professionally to learning dance techniques in Taiwan, Juliet Remmers continues her love of dance as an MFA student in the University of Iowa’s Dance Program.
After being introduced to dance as a young child through the ballet, Swan Lake, Remmers’ parents enrolled her in a ballet class, which she continued until high school, where she explored more genres, such as modern dance, improvisation, and yoga.
“My horizons broadened quite a bit from just doing ballet,” Remmers explains. “With this influx of different ways of moving my body, and understanding my body, gave me a lot of options in how I could imagine myself in the future.”
That future included receiving her undergraduate degree in dance from University of Kansas, teaching as an adjunct lecturer, and moving to Taiwan for four years where she studied contemporary and hybrid Chinese dance forms through Cloud Gate Dance Theater’s school. Her time in Taiwan not only helped advance her Chinese language skills but allowed her to meet with experimental dance artists that brought martial arts movements into their dancing.