Jackie Sheppard

Jackie is a workshop facilitator, writer, and somatic storyteller. They have experience as a creative provocateur, dramaturg, cultural & creative consultant, lecturer & social impact facilitator through storytelling. Through their creations, Jackie attempts to identify and interrogate Ancestral, Intergenerational, and embodied story that is relevant to their lived experience as an Indigenous person. 

Drawing on Somatic, symbolic, & archetypal interrogations, Jackie seeks to shed light in dark places, identifying and speaking to narratives that reverberate within the deeper, more unseen psyches. Jackie’s craft is strongly anchored in Sovereignty, ceremonial revival, and embodied cultural locating. These elements are unearthed and presented through a process of choreographic research, writing and creative meditations. 

Jackie’s latest project, The Black Artery is an experimental dance theatre platform that explores Indigenous choreographies as a form of ritual that maintains Indigenous relationality. Jackie has been accepted into the Master of Dance course at the Victorian College of the Arts where they will articulate & evolve their practice. Some notable projects Jackie has worked on: ‘The Honouring’, A self-devised dance theatre production with puppetry and projection, presented in its new evolution at Arts House for FRAME Festival, 2023; Wild Australia – Men in Chains by Jacki Sheppard (Yirramboi Festival 2017); Jackie has participated in Force Majeure’s 2-week INCITE intensive, and was a successful Bursary recipient for STRUT Dance ‘Perth Moves Workshop Series, 2024, in partnership with Blak Dance.