"Let's explore that."Together Sheppard and Macindoe created a darkly comedic choreographic work about a pair of lost sheep in a slaughter paddock, The Shepherds, set to premiere this week at the inaugural Australian Dance Biennale as part of Melbourne arts festival Rising.Sheppard — a descendant of the Takalaka people of North Queensland — was thrilled by the coincidence of meeting Macindoe The work itself is the ceremony."The Shepherds is in some ways an artistic homecoming for Sheppard."What's been such a blessing about this situation and Alisdair wanting to work with me is it is in line with my commitment that I made to start dancing again and start choreographing again," she says.Sheppard trained in dance and choreography at NAISDA Dance College and Victorian College of the Arts, but, over the years, her relationship to dance became "rocky" and she leaned more towards experimental performance and acting."That became my main gig," she says."There's a lot of craft that goes along with it