Regents’ Lecturer Alice Sheppard: “Making Our Stage: Disabled Artists at Work”

Join us for Alice Sheppard’s lecture, titled “Making Our Stage: Disabled Artists at Work”. Alice Sheppard is visiting UCLA as a 2024-25 academic year Regents’ Lecturer.

Event Details
Date: Tuesday, February 11
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: UCLA Kaufman Hall 220 (120 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA)
Program followed by Reception in Rainbow Lounge, Room 155

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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.

Image description: 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.