The Beauty in Every Body From "8 Things to Do This Weekend" By Brian Schaefer of The New York Times When the dancer and choreographer Alice Sheppard darts down a sidewalk in her wheelchair, she doesn’t slow down or apologize. “Speed is just part of my personality,” she says in “Kinetic Light: Beyond the Stage.” [...]
Hi! I’m Alice Sheppard. I’m a dancer and choreographer and disability activist. I wish I were here with you now, but I’m on tour. So, I filmed a couple of words. Alice climbing the stairs. Kevin Gotkin and Scott Shaw (Gibney: DTI) When you press the button, the doors will close and the [...]
Remarks published here after being shared verbally when accepting The 2019 Juried Bessie Award announced on July 10, 2019 in New York City. Thank you for being here tonight at this incredible celebration. This is a WOW moment. Thank you Carlota, Pam, and Abby for seeing into my work and for recognizing its beauty and [...]
REVEL IN YOUR BODY, a dance film directed by Katherine Helen Fisher and starring Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson of Kinetic Light, will have it's NYC Premiere at The Dance on Camera Festival on Saturday, July 13, 2019. The 60-minute screening will be a program of selected dance film shorts and end with a 20 [...]
HOW HAS YOUR LIFE BEEN AFFECTED BY EXPERIENCING DISABILITY ART? WHAT RIPPLE EFFECTS HAVE YOU NOTICED? We are collecting the answers to this question under the hashtag #RippleEffect. A big thank you to Kayla Hamilton, Kat Holmes, and Madison Zalopany for being our first three to reflect and share. Do you have a #RippleEffect story [...]
Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience features Crip Technoscience as a topic in recently published journal Vol 5 No 1. Edited by Kelly Fritsch, Aimi Hamraie, Mara Mills and David Serlin. With essays written by: Alice Sheppard, Alison Kafer, Alice Wong, Eunjung Kim and others. 'I see technology not as a device or product, [...]
This week The New York Times published, I Dance Because I Can, a piece I wrote for their ongoing Disability Opinion series. I share in the piece what dancing feels like and why I make the artistic choices I make. In some ways, this was an opportunity to correct many of the assumptions that are made [...]
Guest Interview by Lisa Niedermeyer **** Lisa: Hi Ryan, tell us a bit about your background as an artist, cinematographer, and Steadicam operator. Ryan: Hi! First off thanks so much for talking to me and being interested in my work as a technician and operator! I have been working for the last [...]
DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE HERE Alice Sheppard welcomes Candace L. Feldman as Managing Director of Disability Dance Works, LLC. A respected arts administrator and leader with more than a decade of experience producing and presenting across the United States, Feldman joins a growing team of professionals from the arts, technology, and social justice sectors working together [...]
Nov 16, 2018 7:30 PM EST Join Kinetic Light for the first ever livestream of the breakthrough dance production titled DESCENT. Starring disabled dancers Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson with video and lighting by Michael Maag, this multi-media dance duet has consistently sold out each time it is performed onstage. For one night only - [...]
