Research & Projects

Raechele Lovell brings fifteen-plus years of practice across creation, research, and strategy to every engagement. Her work is rigorous, rooted, and deeply responsive to context. She is available for long-term partnerships, consulting engagements, facilitation, and keynote speaking.

Current & Active Work

Uncovering Roots

A dance-theatre work tracing ancestral lineage to Drax Hall Plantation in Barbados, rooted in a family legacy of resistance. Co-created with Lisa Karen Cox. Originally commissioned by Black & Free.

 

Credits: Co-Creators — Raechele Lovell & Lisa Karen Cox

 

DiverseWorks - Apprenticeship Program

Emergent Apprenticeship Program

A youth development and arts apprenticeship programme designed to build the next generation
of Afrodiasporic creative practitioners. Named after the 2022 short film Emergent.

Black Womyn Theatre Digital Archive Project

A digital archive preserving the hxtory and living practice of Black womxn in Canadian theatre. Developed in collaboration with d’bi.young anitafrika and The Watah Theatre.

What Is This Shush? (MA Capstone Research)

Introducing Afro-diasporic Witnessing as Musicking Pedagogy in Community Music. MA capstone research at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Public presentation: August 4, 2026.

Selected Productions & Credits

  • Echoes of Liberation (2025) — City of Guelph Artist-in-Residence. Co-written with
    Kween. First residency in City of Guelph hxtory to centre dance.
  • Uncovering Roots — See above.
  • Emergent (2022 short film) — named work from which the Emergent Apprenticeship
    Program takes its name.
  • The Meeting Place — co-created with Esie Mensah Creations.