Juliet (jules) Paramor is an experimental dance and performance artist. Before relocating to Iowa City, she was based in Boston, MA. She is from the West Coast, with deep ties to the Bay Area, CA, and the Pacific Northwest.

Her movement style and methods draw from 10+ years of study in somatics, post-modern and release technique, club dancing, contact improvisation, ritual, and a vast lineage of queer experimental dance artists—notably her teachers Kathleen Hermesdorf, Abby Crain, Daiane Lopes da Silva, Gerald Casel, Sara Shelton Mann, Karen de Luna (MX), and Cid Pearlman.

She makes durational, state-based dance performances. Her work explores individual, communal, and cultural ecologies of grief, eros, sensuality, and the subconscious, following themes of primal belonging, nostalgia, memory, femininity, power, sexuality, and how desire and time manifest through the body and affect one another. She is interested in how physical tasks and repetition engage the subconscious, alter perception, shape emotional and physical terrains, and reveal choreographic vocabularies. Drawn to subtlety, the negotiation of privacy, and the ways performance permeates daily life, she translates the nature and energy of personal, intimate events into something visible, creating spaces where these themes can be encountered.

Her work has been presented by Movement Research at the Judson Church (NYC), the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (Northampton, MA), CounterPulse, ROT Festival (San Francisco, CA), PLEX Arts Fest (Burlington, VT), various house parties, and more. She self-produces her work, organizes multidisciplinary performance parties, teaches classes, and facilitates contact improvisation jams.

As an MFA student, she is curious to develop her artistic practice, deepen her choreographic processes, and expand her approaches to teaching and facilitating dance spaces through relationships with faculty, fellow students, the department, and the wider Iowa City community.