Founded by Raechele Lovell, DiverseWorks operates at the intersections of art, activism, and community, through a distinctly Canadian, intersectional diasporic, contemporary, and Afro-futurist lens. Our work is deeply informed by:
✔ Afro-Caribbean oral traditions
✔ Polyrhythms & embodied storytelling
✔ Somatic movement & ancestral knowledge
✔ Black feminist thought & radical care as creative resistance—prioritizing communal care, intergenerational knowledge-sharing, and artistic practices rooted in healing justice
✔ Contemporary performance practices that expand Black presence, liberation, and innovation beyond colonial frameworks—where movement, sound, and digital landscapes merge to imagine speculative Black futures, rejecting erasure while crafting radical new possibilities for Black performance
We craft performances that bear witness, disrupt, and hold space for grief, joy, and resistance in equal measure.
Our Approach to Afro-Diasporic Performance & Decolonial Arts:
✔ Champion Black artistry in all its complexity, brilliance, and fluidity.
✔ Offer professional and community-engaged programming that prioritizes access, representation, and artistic rigor.
✔ Create sustainable pathways for Black artists, educators, and youth, ensuring our work is more than symbolic—it is an investment in the future.
✔ Creating & Performing: Commissioned theatre and dance works, touring performances, and original interdisciplinary productions.
✔ Mentorship & Education: Performance-based mentorship programs, decolonial pedagogy, and arts training for emerging and established artists.
✔ Community-Engaged Research: Afro-diasporic performance studies, oral hxstory projects, and interdisciplinary research.
✔ Consulting & Partnerships: Collaborating with institutions, educators, and creatives to decolonize performance and artistic practices.
✔ Held space for Black artists to create, heal, and reimagine new possibilities for performance and liberation.
✔ Built ongoing partnerships with artists, collectives, and institutions committed to decolonial performance research
✔ Crafted performances that honour the stories, rhythms, and movement traditions of the diaspora—honouring the past, disrupting the present, and shaping liberated futures through collective vision, movement, and radical imagination
From commissioned works to mentorship programs, from performance research to community workshops, DiverseWorks is a space where the stories of the diaspora are centered, where movement becomes testimony, and where artistry serves liberation.
From commissioned works to mentorship programs, from performance research to community workshops, DiverseWorks is a space where the stories of the diaspora are centered, where movement becomes testimony, and where artistry serves liberation.
Let’s create together. Whether you’re an artist, educator, or researcher, there’s space for you in our collective.
Explore our programs or book a consultation—let’s build something together today.
Raechele Lovell is a performance artist, choreographer, dramaturg, producer, educator, and cultural disruptor committed to decolonizing the arts. As the Founder & Artistic Director of DiverseWorks Co., she creates work at the intersection of Afro-diasporic storytelling, somatic practice, and social justice. Her artistic works unravel hxstorical narratives, tracing lineages of resistance and joy through movement, voice, sound, and embodied storytelling.
Raechele moves through multiple worlds—born on an unceded, stolen block of the Haldimand Tract, she grew up navigating cultural intersections as the daughter of a Barbadian father and a German Mennonite mother. She learned early that performance is more than entertainment—it is hxstory, resilience, and identity in motion.
Her first exposure to rhythm and movement came through steel pan, playing alongside her father in a traditional Caribbean ensemble. Polyrhythms became the first language she spoke fluently, a conversation between movement, breath, and sound—one she continues in works like Uncovering Roots, where rhythm serves as a portal to both ancestral memory and speculative futures. This foundation in Afro-Caribbean embodied musicality and improvisation shaped her approach to performance, embedding a deep understanding of artistry as sound, rhythm, and narrative—an act of remembering, an act of becoming.
She is deeply invested in work that challenges Eurocentric norms in performance, centers Black diasporic traditions, and creates space for marginalized voices to be seen, heard, and valued
✔ Caribbean and African movement traditions
✔ Theatre, contemporary dance, folklore, and embodied memory
✔ Polyrhythms, storytelling, and somatic reclamation
✔ Afro-futurist visions of performance as speculative storytelling—where movement, sound, and digital landscapes converge to imagine liberated Black futures
✔ Black feminist thought, radical care, and communal resilience as core creative methodologies
She is deeply invested in work that challenges Eurocentric norms in performance, centers Black diasporic traditions, and creates space for marginalized voices to be seen, heard, and valued
An Inclusive Contemporary Company of Diverse Artists, exploring the Intersections between Classical Eurocentric technique and the Afro Diasporas of Movement. Artistic Director & Choreographer Raechele Lovell breathes new life into old movements in order to create visual stories that are representative our diverse community. Collective Members share in creation through presentation of their choreography, producing, design, intersectionality, storytelling and movement talent presentation.
Beyond performing our stories, we work to engage with our community through workshops, panel discussions, board committee representation, classes, mentorship and collaboration with key like minded companies.
We’ve got some exciting projects in the works! Further announcements about our Collective are coming soon.
Stay tuned…
Explore the powerful artistry of DiverseWorks Dance Co. through a collection of dynamic performances that push the boundaries of movement and storytelling. From thought-provoking contemporary dance pieces to immersive theatrical works, each project reflects themes of identity, transformation, and community. Watch these videos to experience the passion, creativity, and innovation that define DiverseWorks.
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