Diana Shepherd

Diana Shepherd is a movement artist from Illinois, USA. She studied and received her BFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There, Diana worked with choreographers Kirstie Simson, Tere O’Conner and performed her senior thesis entitled “Selfs”.  Diana has participated twice in the International University Global Theater Experience’s Art Oasis program in Italy and in Austria, where she was an assistant to the program.  Diana has been a dance teacher since 2010 and taught her own children’s dance classes in Berlin, Ireland and the USA at various studios and schools. For her Berlin premiere, Diana performed the self-choreographed solo “Bodies (2nd Part)” in the ada Studio performance showcase 10 Times 6. She has acquired a Masters of Arts in Performing Public Space from Fontys University of Applied Sciences in 2019 with her final project entitled Catresponse, which deals with the street harassment of women that takes place through catcalling and creates an opportunity for response. Diana recently finished at the University College Cork in Ireland for a Masters in Arts Management and Creative Producing with the premier of Contingence, an international improvisational dance piece on online communication.  Diana is currently living, working and studying in Colorado, pursuing her choreographic ideas on international bodies and how they interact with the society that exists, and restricts, around them. She loves public space, gender roles and boxes.