Niquelle LaTouche

Niquelle LaTouche is an artist-educator and cultural producer invested in community cohesion, equity and creative collaboration. She is the founder of Niquelle LaTouche Arts (2014) and It Takes a Village Collective (2020) which are hubs for radical empathy building, challenging normative ideas and encouraging proactive social change through a currency of care. Niquelle is Fine Artist, Poet , Choreographer and English specialist with experience spanning supplementary schools, alternative provisions, language schools, pupil referral units, mainstream secondary and post 16 education. As an advocate for cross-disciplinary practice, she champions inclusive, trauma-informed practice and curriculum design that empowers, raises attainment and shifts cultures.

In short, a badgyal from Hackney whose Dominican ancestors guide her to shake institutionalised tables with radical acts of love.

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A few beautiful moments:

A Night With Boy Blue – Black Classical Music (1 minute solo segment) Barbican Theatre May 2025
Hackney Heads 2025 – Hackney Alumni – Speaker
Academy Breakin’ Convention – Head and Founder September 2023- June 2025

AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance) Panel member – Literature specification revisions https://www.aqa.org.uk/spark-something/poetry/worlds-and-lives

Worlds and Lives Poetry endorsement here
Curriculum design support resource here Teaching companion here
National Lottery’s New Year’s Eve Big Bash (ITV) – Windrush homage choreographed by Danielle “Rhimes” Lecointe (Zoonation) Wembley Ovo Arena (December 2023) 

Article: Three Invitations from Shakespeare to Decolonise his Works – The British Shakespeare Association’s Teaching Shakespeare magazine, issue 22 https://www.britishshakespeare.ws/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/TeachingShakespeare22.pdf

Once on this Island – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre – Associate Choroegrapher

British Blacklist Interview ” ASSOCIATE CHOREOGRAPHER NIQUELLE LATOUCHE TALKS … ONCE ON THIS ISLAND” with Akua Gyamfi https://thebritishblacklist.co.uk/associate-choreographer-niquelle-latouche-talks-once-on-this-island/ 31st May

Neg(ate) – Battersea Arts Centre, Sadler’s Wells Theatre – Lillian Baylis Studio, St Bartholomew’s Theatre Reading, Curve Theatre Leicester and Chisenhale Dance Space.

A commissioned piece for Boy Blue Entertainment and Mikey J Asante’s #30byThursday series 2020
Filmed: Jeremy Meslien
Music: Track Eight -Mikey J – 30 by Thursday
The critical conversation is as important as the performativity. The artist as important as the educator. Protest comes in many forms. Let’s not become despondent to the ongoing curveballs and gaslighting, we move. 01.04.21 “Performance as Protest” (10 minutes, 2021) is a documentary style art film that features six queer Black creatives Jay Bernard, Tanaka Fuego , Niquelle LaTouche , Peter ‘Repeat Beat’ Poet , PJ Samuels, Lalah Simone Springer .commissioned by Queering Space with support from the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research.
M(other)land- Niquelle LaTouche Arts: TATE Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Albany Theatre, Studio3Arts, Barking Broadway, Rich Mix London and Chisenhale Dance Space.
“Pregnancy pillow” – excerpt from my debut collection The Art of Blaggery
“Arms like casket, holding me when I don’t rest in peace…’ Writer’s Block London November 2024
Karnival 2.0 – Boy Blue Entertainment: Sadler’s Wells Theatre – Breakin’ Convention / Barbican Theatre.
A Night with Boy Blue 2022 XXI anniversary show. Lead “Uhuru” Barbican Theatre
Credit: Phil Robertson
S(he)d light – Zinnema Belgium and Rich Mix London 1000 pieces puzzle international exchange programme
Culture Club: Social mobility in the creative and cultural industries 28 February 2019
Victoria Pinoncely, Mario Washington-Ihieme https://centreforlondon.org/reader/culture-club/

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I understand intersectionality’s impact on experience, and I am dedicated to etching space for ostracised and underserved groups to be able to thrive, find community and reconnect to their power. In all of my work I utilise the transformative power of the arts to achieve equity and inclusion through an intersectional, trauma-informed lens. It should not be a privilege to exist authentically. If joy-filled events, programmes and resources for collective care is a focus, I am open to collaboration.

Please note: I am in harmony with the rhythms of nature, have an ambitious portfolio career and prioritise well-being and sustainable practices in every role. As a young, black*, working class, female, who has navigated many leadership roles, I know firsthand how systemic, institutional and interpersonal relationships are integral in creating change and opportunity. This requires a considerable organisational commitment and support to challenge, interrogate and reflect on practices traditionally used. I am able to find the gaps, create sustainable systems, and meaningfully engage diverse communities but only in integrity driven environments.

If you understand all of the above, you’re my tribe, let’s connect.