Winter 2025 Fiat Lux
The UCLA IDP in Disability Studies and the department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance welcome Alice Sheppard, choreographer and activist. 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
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.
Header Image Description
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.