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I am a Floridian eco-anthro-archival performance artist, engaging the past with a preposterous present through urgent tenderness and radical responsibility. My practice focuses on the handling of delicate information from the primary sources of text, mind, body, and collective memory, specifically those at risk of erasure from climate catastrophe. Practicing within the generous failures of embodied dramaturgy, I investigate expressions of earthly grief, love, and ferocious care through choreography, movement, and devised theatrical work. I have been presented along the east coast in New York and Philadelphia (The New School, 954 Dance Movement Collective, the Annenberg Performing Arts Center, among others) as well as in many parks, museums, and cultural centers throughout Florida, such as the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens and the Ringling Museum of Art. My work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Florida Public Archaeology Network, and the New School College of Performing Arts.

As an arts administrator, I study sustainable creative placemaking and adrienne marie brown’s emergent strategy as an anti-oppressive blueprint for uplifting and supporting artists, ensuring they have the resources to imagine, create, and celebrate an equitable and liberated future. I have worked as the General Manager of Sarasota Contemporary Dance, as well as in administrative roles at Koresh Dance Company, the National Constitution Center, and most recently at Movement Research in NYC.


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Raychel has had work featured on the 2020 Kilroys List, and at the Centre National de la Danse (Paris), HERE Arts (NYC), The Brick (NYC), En Garde Arts (NYC), the New School College of Performing Arts (NYC), Poetry Society of New York (NYC), Annenberg Performing Arts Center at the University of Pennsylvania (PHL), 954 Dance Movement Collective (PHL), Ursinus College (PA), the Shoebox Theater Festival (PHL), Vox Populi (PHL), the Ringling Museum of Art (FL), MARA Studio|Gallery (FL), Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (FL), Sarasota Art Museum (FL), the Bay Park Conservancy (FL), and with the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies department at the New College of Florida. Raychel has produced their work with support from the Florida Humanities Council, Sarasota Arts and Cultural Alliance (John Ringling Towers Grant), Florida Public Archaeology Network, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Raychel received their BA with honors from the New College of Florida, where they double majored in Literature and Anthropology, and where they were also hosted as an Adjunct Professor in spring 2022.