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Alice Sheppard

She // Her // Hers

Choreographer, Dancer, and Writer

Los Altos, California

Alice, a Black woman, smiles brightly with her head in her hand. She has light brown skin, curly shoulder-length hair with bronze highlights, and wears a black blouse and sleek gold necklace.

Photo by Photo by Beverlie Lord, courtesy BCL/SatsunPhotography.

Alice Sheppard trained with Kitty Lunn and first performed with Infinity Dance Theater before going on to become a core company member with AXIS Dance Company. Her choreography has been commissioned by CRIPSiE, Full Radius Dance, and MOMENTA Dance Company. Sheppard is the Artistic Director of Kinetic Light, a project-based ensemble, working at the intersections of disability, dance, design, identity, and technology to create transformative art and advance the intersectional disability arts movement. A USA Fellow, Creative Capital grantee, and Bessie Award winner, she creates movement that engages intersectional disability arts, culture, and history, challenging conventional understandings of disabled and dancing bodies. Sheppard's writing has appeared in The New York Times and Catalyst.

Donor -This USA Fellowship was generously supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Disability Futures is supported by Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 08.20.2024