UCLA Regents Lecture by Alice Sheppard
Making Our Stage: Disabled Artists at Work
Program followed by Reception in Rainbow Lounge, Room 155
About Alice Sheppard
Living into a dare, dancer and choreographer Alice Sheppard resigned her tenured professorship to train with Kitty Lunn and Infinity Dance Theater. After an apprenticeship, Alice joined AXIS Dance Company where she became a core company member, toured nationally, and taught in the company’s education and outreach programs. Alice is the founder and artistic lead for Kinetic Light, a disability arts organization, working at the intersections of disability, dance, design, identity, and technology to create transformative art and affirm the intersectional disability arts movement.
Winter 2025 Fiat Lux
Alice will be guest teaching Victoria Marks’ Fiat Lux Seminar DANCE 19.1 during her visit to UCLA as a 2024-25 academic year Regents’ Lecturer. The course, titled Movement Movements: Disability Artistry Dance and Performance, will be offered Friday, Feb. 7, 1-3; Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 8 and 9 1-4; and Monday, Feb. 10, 6-8. Learn more: dslabs.ucla.edu/alice-sheppard-regents-2024-2025-lecturer
Image Descriptions:
ID: Alice Sheppard, a multiracial Black woman with red, gold, peach, and copper dyed curly hair, sits in a traditional English garden. A lush green landscape of plants and flowers grow behind her. A birdhouse dangles from a tree. Draped over a lime green chair, Alice sits, wrapped in a heath grey sweater and light blue scarf. One arm curls up and supports her head, a broad smile opens her face.
ID: Against an inky black background, Alice Sheppard, a multiracial Black woman with dark copper curly hair, balances. Head tucked in, palms to the ground, rear wheels of her wheelchair high to the sky. Her chair frame rests precariously on the stems of two crutches. Photo: Mengwen Cao
ID: A torso-up headshot of Alice Sheppard; she is a multiracial Black woman with coffee-colored skin and platinum blond short curly hair, she wears a hot pink top. Alice folds her hands in her lap and regards the camera with a slight smile. The rims of her wheelchair arc into the bottom of the frame.