Juliet (jules) Paramor is an experimental dance and performance artist based in Boston, MA, with deep ties to the Bay Area, CA, and the Pacific Northwest.
Her movement style and methods draw from somatic principles, post-modern and release technique, club dancing, contact improvisation, ritual, and a vast lineage of queer experimental dance artists—notably teachers Kathleen Hermesdorf, Abby Crain, Daiane Lopes da Silva, Gerald Casel, Sara Shelton Mann, Karen de Luna (MX), and Cid Pearlman.
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), and more.
Jules collaborates with artists of multiple mediums, objects, energy in the space, and her voice to co-create vivid worlds for feeling and being.
She makes her own work, produces performance parties, teaches classes, and facilitates contact improvisation jams.
My process is informed by my experience as a sex worker, lover, party-girl, daughter. My work examines themes of primal belonging, nostalgia, memory and grief, femininity and power, sexuality and sensuality (eros), and how desire and time manifest through the body and affect one another. I make my work to broadcast subtle and private spaces, translating the nature and energy of personal, intimate events into something visible. I make this work to generate beautiful, vibey spaces where these themes can be felt and discussed. My work values balance and equity in aesthetic, process and engagement. My work explores individual, communal and cultural dimensions of grief, eros, sensuality, and the subconscious.
photos by emily zaccaria