01/28/2023
Free Virtual Event with Alice Sheppard: Moving Architecture/ Architecting Movement
This virtual presentation is hosted by the Jefferson Humanities Forum and Jefferson College of Architecture and the Built Environment
Feb 21, 6-7:30pm ET
FREE
Access includes CART, ASL, and audio description of any on-screen content.
Details & registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/alice-sheppard-moving-architecture-architecting-movement-tickets-514278880977
Event Description: In this talk, disabled dancer and choreographer Alice Sheppard considers the dynamic relationships of movement, architecture, and public space. Sheppard learned her craft partly in a dance studio, and partly on the street interacting with people and the built environment. She quickly learned that architecture and movement fed each other in challenging ways, especially when it came to her lived experience as a Black disabled q***r woman. Carving through the walls of so-called accessible buildings and contouring around the movements of well-established dance forms, Sheppard surfaces her joy in disabled movement and pleasure in the unexpected architectures of body, building, and space.
Image description: Alice Sheppard, a multiracial Black woman with coffee-colored skin and short curly red hair, speaks onstage in her wheelchair; she wears a shimmery dark red sleeveless costume top, and shimmery copper-colored pants. She is holding a presentation clicker in one hand and gesturing with the other. She is smiling at the audience as she speaks. Behind her is a red and blue arc of light and a huge screen. On the screen appears a rehearsal photo in which Alice and Laurel Lawson are mid-air, tethered to the ceiling by bungees. Photo Stacie McChesney/TED.
