“When I came home, I found myself unable to relax because the idea of not doing schoolwork or worrying about schoolwork or thinking about schoolwork was implausible.
My freshman year, I took a class entitled “Performing Power Performing Protest” in which we looked at famous protests throughout history and the performance like nature of each event that led to their place in the history books.
In early September, a group of seven dancers and University of Iowa Assistant Professor Melinda Myers met on a Zoom call to discuss creating her piece for the virtual performance of Dance Gala 2020