At this time of year, graduate students usually feel pressure to work on their thesis papers, but for two third-year graduate students working on their MFAs in dance on the performance track, their paper takes shape in the form of a concert.
At the University of Iowa’s fall 2021 Dance Gala, dance duo Michael Landez and Juliet Remmers performed the piece The Moor’s Pavane, originally choreographed in 1949 by revolutionary dancer José Limón. The dance was based around the Shakespearean tragedy Othello, where Othello kills his wife after hearing rumors that she cheated on him.
Remmers and Landez performed the dance as a quartet alongside fellow graduate dance students Darrius Gray and Emmalee Hallinan, and will do so again in their thesis concert.