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Alice Sheppard performs "So, I Will Wait."

Alice Sheppard is a disabled choreographer and dancer from Britain.[1] Sheppard started her career first as a professor, but later became interested in dance. She became a member of the AXIS Dance Company and toured with them. She also founded and leads Kinetic Light, an artistic coalition created in collaboration with dancer, Laurel Lawson, and lighting and video artist, Michael Maag.

Biography

Sheppard earned a doctorate in medieval studies at Cornell University.[1][2] She worked as an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University (PSU). [3] In 2004, after a conference on disability studies, she took on a dare from disabled dancer, Homer Avila, to take a dance class.[4][5] At the conference, she also met Simi Linton, who is the creator and co-director of Invitation to Dance, where Linton’s own account of disability is intertwined with the stories of others, including Alice Sheppard, whose image graces the cover of the film.[6][4] According to the other director of the film, Christian von Tippelskirch, “Alice Sheppard...is a central figure [in the film]. She is an amazingly talented, forceful dancer, whether on stage or at a party”.[4] The first dance lesson Sheppard took was taught by Kitty Lunn.[7] She continued her dance lessons with AXIS Dance Company, became an apprentice dancer in 2006 and then became a company member in 2007.[8]

Post-apprenticeship, Sheppard toured nationally and taught for the Axis Dance Company in their education and outreach programs.[9] In 2012, Alice became an independent dancer and has since worked with companies in the United Kingdom and the United States. [3]

Career

Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson perform "Excerpt from Snapshot (Minsky's Burlesque, New Jersey, ca. 1954)" - 2

In 2014 Sheppard collaborated with GDance and Ballet Cymru to create the performance Stuck in the Mud. The performance was presented as a promenade – an interactive performance where performers guided the audience through a tour of the site.[10] She has also performed with Full Radius Dance in both 2014 and 2015. [11] [12]

In 2017 she collaborated with Marc Brew Company to create BREWBAND, a performance that combines live rock music with live dance.[13][14] The show “blurs boundaries between musicians and dancers and challenges audience’s perceptions of what live performance is”.[15]

Currently, Sheppard's dance company, Kinetic Light, is working on a piece entitled DESCENT, performed on an architectural ramp installation.[16] The performance acts out the story of Andromeda and Venus, re-imagined as interracial lovers. [17]

Movement Style and Choreography

Sheppard's dances use her wheelchair as an extension of her body.[18] She also uses crutches in her routines.[2] In 2016, she incorporated the use of ramps, built by engineering students at Olin College.[18] Below is a list of works choreographed by Alice Sheppard.

List of Works Date
Doors 2013
I Belong to You 2014
So, I Will Wait 2015
Succumb, 2016
Re-Membering A World To Come 2016
Trusting If/ Believing When 2017
Where Good Souls Fear 2017
DESCENT 2017

Awards and Grants

  • Wynn Newhouse Award (2015)[19]
  • Dance/NYC Disability Dance Fund (2017)[20]
  • Creative Capital Foundation’s MAP FUND (2017)[21]
  • New England Foundation for the Arts [NEFA]: The NDP Production grant (2017)[22]

Publications

  • “Orosius, Old English translation of,” in Michael Lapidge, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, (1998), pages 346-347.
  • "Of This Is a King's Body Made: Lordship and Succession in Lawman's Arthur and Leir" (2000)[23]
  • “The King’s Family: Securing the Kingdom in Asser’s Vita Alfredi,” Philological Quarterly 80 (2001): pages 409-439.
  • “Noble Counsel No-Counsel: Advising Ethelred the Unready,” in Via Crucis: Essays on Sources and Ideas in Memory of J. E. Cross, edited by Thomas N. Hall, Thomas D. Hill, and C. D. Wright. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, (2002), pages 393-422.
  • “Love Rewritten: Patronizing Meaning and Authorizing History in the Prologue to La3amon’s Brut,” Mediaevalia 23 (2002): pages 99-121.
  • "Families of the King: Writing Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" (2004)[24]
  • “After Words,” PMLA, 120 (2005): pages 647–641.
  • “A Word to the Wise: Thinking and Wisdom in the Old English Wanderer,” in Source of Wisdom: Studies in Old English and Insular Latin in Honor of Thomas D. Hill, ed. Charles D. Wright, Frederick M. Biggs, and Thomas N. Hall. University of Toronto Press, (2007). pages 647–641.

Academic Presentations

  • "Black Booty" at Spelman College (2010)
  • "Showing Spine" at Barnard College (2012)
  • "Embodied Virtuosity: Dances from Disability Culture" at Emory University (2014).[25]
  • “Practicing Dance: Backstage with a Disabled Dancer” at Arkansas State University and SUNY Geneseo (2014)[26]
  • "The Second Annual Longmore Lecture" at San Francisco State University (2015)
  • "Trained to Kill: Disability, Race and Dance" at University of Alberta and Georgetown University (2016)
  • "Adaptive Gear, Art, Aesthetics" at Olin College (2016)
  • "Disability Across Disciplines Symposium" at University of Virginia (2016)
  • “Overturning Expectations: Dance and Disability” at 92Y (2017)[27]

References

  1. ^ a b Weber, Bruce (30 October 2009). "A Dance Company Mixes Arms, Legs and Wheels". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  2. ^ a b White, Jasmine (2016-02-26). "Promoting Disability Activism Through Dance". The Hoya. Retrieved 2017-10-05. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ a b "Alice Sheppard - Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability". longmoreinstitute.sfsu.edu.
  4. ^ a b c Palladino, D.J. (29 January 2014). "Invitation to Dance". Independent. Retrieved 5 October 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help) Cite error: The named reference "Independent" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. ^ "Invitation to Dance: A Consecrated Dance Space".
  6. ^ "Invitation to Dance (2014)".
  7. ^ "Dancers with disabilities continue to fight for acceptance". Metro US. 2015-07-03. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
  8. ^ Ruidas, Kalani (25 February 2015). "Dance artist expresses complex ideas through movement". Golden Gate Xpress. Retrieved 2017-10-05. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  9. ^ "3Arts".
  10. ^ "Stuck In The Mud - Ballet Cymru". welshballet.co.uk.
  11. ^ "Full Radius Dance".
  12. ^ Full Radius Dance (24 August 2014). "It is four years ago and it is yesterday EXCERPT: Quartet" – via YouTube.
  13. ^ "BREWBAND". 27 October 2015.
  14. ^ Elderkin, Rachel (26 April 2017). "Marc Brew Company: Brewband review at Sadler's Wells, London". The Stage. Retrieved 2017-10-05. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  15. ^ "MarcBrewCompany presents: BREWBAND". Indiegogo.
  16. ^ "Alice Sheppard / Kinetic Light".
  17. ^ "Alice Sheppard - Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography". mancc.org.
  18. ^ a b Putnam, Bailey (20 April 2016). "Physics + dance + wheelchair = art - The Boston Globe". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2017-10-05. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  19. ^ "Awards". www.wnewhouseawards.com.
  20. ^ "Fund".
  21. ^ "2017 MAP Fund Grantees". 22 May 2017.
  22. ^ "NEFA's National Dance Project Announces Awards for New Dance Production and Presentation". 17 July 2017.
  23. ^ http://www.jstor.org/stable/27869543?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents JSTOR]
  24. ^ https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=QU3IQNiMmUYC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=%22alice+sheppard%22&ots=TtGUEN3s44&sig=-qIvSko1UXgispAwuj1itTUsZyA#v=onepage&q=%22alice%20sheppard%22&f=false Google Books]
  25. ^ https://vimeo.com/108937946 Vimeo]
  26. ^ http://www.astate.edu/college/humanities-and-social-sciences/Events/DisabilityDance%20Sheppard%20flyer.pdf Arkansas State University]
  27. ^ http://www.culturebot.org/2017/04/27142/mobilizing-bodies/ Culture Bot]


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