LADA Screens: Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson – Online Screening

Biography

Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson is a Black queer eco-feminist performance maker, writer, community-builder/organiser, earthworker and embodied social justice facilitator. Working across art, community action, education, health and climate justice settings for the last 16 years, Lateisha weaves spiritual, somatic and nature-based approaches into their social critical praxis and pedagogy. Lateisha is guided by the principles of transformative storytelling as prophetic wisdom – creating space to meet through the applied lens of care and collective liberation.

Lateisha has worked extensively in stage and screen. Amongst others, Lateisha’s writing-direction includes the immersive interdisciplinary theatre show S/he Breathe/s (Raze Collective, Stanley Arts Centre, Croydon Borough Of Culture, 2023). Lateisha has also performed in John Akomfrah’s Five Murmurations (Lisson Gallery 2021) and Ama Josephine Budge’s Putting The Cooker On Low (Bard CHRA); participated in the exhibition An Ecology of Mind (Bethlem Gallery, 2022); worked in Myah Jeffers’s There Is No Healing in Silence (2020); collaborated with Leeds-based theatre company Speak Woman Speak (2018); and directed a 10-week theatre programme for Routes Collective at the Arcola Theatre, bringing together women from refugee backgrounds (2019).Lateisha’s published writing includes the texts ‘PSX 10 hours // words of witnessing’, commissioned by ]performance s p a c e[ (2022) and ‘grief is a grandmother whose burning hands enshrine light’, commissioned by Artsadmin (2021). Their poetry pamphlet, ‘~the heart is a holding~’ will be published by Burning Eye Books in 2024.