theatre
S/He Breathe/S
S/He Breathe/S is a collaborative multisensory installation and theatre show written-directed-community organised by Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson. Rooted in the ritual of Black radical creativity, queer transfeminisms, disability justice, working-class revolutionary imagining, ecologically sustainable futures - the project draws together visionary genre-defying frameworks for contemporary audiences.
Illuminating invigorating questions of belonging and existence within a socio-climate colonial devastated future…
A world where Black and Brown people are turned into objects for ‘air-work’: cleaning toxic polluted air with their lungs, whilst white folx are protected with breathing tanks from birth.
S/He Breathe/S centres hope, love & possibility - by calling in the central character, Xaymaca as they/she searches through ancestral connections of queer time-travel and techno-ecologies to hold a ritual … to speak to us. We. Me and you as ancestors, in a place where past, present and future meet…
A place where the land wants us all to be free…
Download the accompanying essay here (will be linked after pdf uploaded and a url is available)
Commission & Thank yous
S/He Breathe/S was commissioned for development/sharing by RAZE collective and Stanley Arts Centre. As part of ‘Collide’ LGBTQIA+ Artist support scheme for Croydon London Borough Of Culture May-July 2023.
Co-created with an incredible company of collaborators:
Actors - EM Williams, Kes Gill-Martin and Yuwei Jing
Filmmaker & Editor - Ella J. Frost
Film Creative Director - Robbie White
Sonic Artist - Raf Alero
Scenic + Installation Artist - Seyi Adelekun
Zahra Dalilah - Essay Artist
Dré Ferdinand - Wellbeing Practitioner
Shannay Henry-Brown - Creative Assistant
Documentor - Angry Jalebi
Previous Artist-Collaborators:
Tommy Ross-Williams (Dramatrugy), Amarnah Amuludun (Actor), Femi Tiwo (Actor), Joyce Nichols (Video) and Sawa Manga (Music)
Previous support organisations:
Soho Theatre (writers lab 2018), Camden Peoples Theatre (starting blocks 2020), Arts Council England (project grant 2020)