Instructor

Stephanie Sherman

Stephanie Sherman is a queer, bilingual, interdisciplinary choreographer, dancer, educator, visual artist, and poet who has spent much of her career in Latin America. She has been dance faculty at Mills College, San Francisco State University, The University of Texas el Paso, la Universidad de las Américas Puebla, la Academia de la Danza Mexicana of Mexico's National Institute of Fine Arts, and has been a visiting artist at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and la Universidad Central del Ecuador. She has an MFA in Dance from NYU, Tisch, and a PhD in Performance Studies from UC Berkeley. Her choreography has won awards and residencies such as the National Performance Network's Red Latinoamericana (Ecuador, 2008), two Fulbrights (Mexico, 2018; Ecuador, 2006), and various official selections to video dance festivals including San Francisco Dance Film Festival (Monumental, 2023). Her bilingual book Tectonic Tongues/Lenguas Tectónicas (Red Lawrence Press) will be released in July. She is a former dancer of Prometheus Dance Company (Boston).