The Moor's Pavane company outside Limon's company to include the work in its repertory. Notable interpreters of the Moor include Rudolf Nureyev and Cynthia Gregory. Since its creation, "The Moor's Pavane" has been added to the repertories of many different companies, including major ballet companies, showing the fading divisive line between modern dance and ballet. The Moor's Pavane The Moor's Pavane is a 20-minute ballet based upon the tragedy "Othello" by William Shakespeare. The ballet was choreographed by José Limón in 1949 to music from Henry Purcell's "Abdelazer", "The Gordion Knot Untied", and the pavane from "Pavane and Chaconne for Strings", arranged by
Polonaise (clothing) draw up the skirt, and on the topic of the "polonaise" says: Though this term is often applied to any eighteenth-century dress with back drapery, it belongs, strictly speaking, to an over dress that appeared c. 1775. This was cut like the man's coat of the same period, with centre back and two far-back side seams all terminating in inverted pleats, the front being in one piece with an underarm dart. It was caught to the top of the bodice centre front ... Aileen Ribeiro describes the "polonaise" as "cut in four parts, two at the front and two at