Choreographed by Alice Shepard​
Succumb explores care-- when we accept it, when we reject it. How do we express care without touch or contact? When and how is care a joy?  When is care a “care” or a “burden”? What are some of the unwritten and unspoken ideas around care in our different communities?  How do we “take” care; who does the “care-giving?”  Why? Succumb searches for connection, seeks relationship, exposes the desire to belong.

Featuring
Kelsie Acton
Kaylee Borgstrom
Sara Campos-Silvius
Lindsay Eales
Jinny Hilliard
Bobman Jeffrey
Rebecca John
Erin Newman
Danielle Peers
Nicolle Pilon
Mary Schneider
Alex Sutherland

About Alice Sheppard
Alice creates movement that challenges conventional understandings of disabled and dancing bodies. Alice's work has been commissioned by CRIPSiE, Full Radius Dance Company, and MOMENTA Dance Company. Alice’s most recent project is a collaboration with dancer Laurel Lawson, lighting and video artist Michael Maag, and professors Sara Hendren, Yevgeniya Zastavker, and students of Olin College.

This duet is an exploration of the intimate, sexy, and care-sharing aspects of a queer crip mad relationship. 

About the Artists 
​Lindsay Eales is an integrated dance choreographer, a Mad performer and a Co-Artistic Director of CRIPSiE.

​Danielle Peers is a queer crip performer and filmmaker, as well as an artistic associate with CRIPSiE.

Choreography by: Alison Neuman

Featuring: 
Julie Heffel
Alexis Hillyard
Angela Sekulic
Alex Sutherland
Quinn Wade

Fix You is inspired by the pressure to fit in and the power of individuality.

Choreography by Kelsie Acton

Featuring
Kaylee Borgstrom
Iris Dykes
​Jinny Hilliard

Help! is a consideration of help, at times humour and dark, in all its myriad forms. It ask what the conditions are for help to be helpful and what assumptions and misrecognitions regularly happen as a part of help. 

Love In This Body is a poem that explores Black love, tenderness, and the relationship of each to the poet's life and joy.

​Brandon Wint is an Edmonton-based poet, spoken word artist and arts-educator. He is also a two-time national team champion in the arena of poetry slam. As a writer and a performer, Brandon Wint's work often foregrounds, with gentle but stirring force, ideas of love, unity, Divinity and deep humanity. He has been fortunate to share his poetry all over Canada, and he is honoured to contribute his perspectives and his energy in service to love and communal consciousness.

https://brandonwint.bandcamp.com/

bi/chotomy is an exploration of racial androgyny.  Shaped by influences of bharatanatyam & choreopoetry, tea & coconuts, bridges & oceans, madness & queerness, family & ancestry, it unfurls one person’s path of existing simultaneously as brown & white, first-generation & second-generation, mad & brilliant, binary & non-binary, marginalized & model-minority.

Amazing integrated dance artist and choreographer, Alice Sheppard, is coming Edmonton for a dance creation intensive and the following public events: