Akeim Toussaint Buck : Windows of Displacement

Windows of Displacement is a highly physical and fiercely moving dance solo from Yorkshire artist Akeim Touissant Buck. The piece draws on Akeim’s own history to reflect on universal ideas of migration, home, border and identity, integrating a richly expressive physicality with spoken word, tender folksong and visual image created in collaboration with cross-disciplinary artist Akeelah Betram.

Akeim Toussaint Buck is an award-winning interdisciplinary performer and maker, born in Jamaica and raised in England. He began making his own work upon graduation from The Northern School of Contemporary Dance, launching his own company Toussaint To Move in 2016 as a vehicle to create moving, thought provoking, accessible and free-spirited projects. The work aims to reflect on socio-political issues, with a humanitarian focus.

The aesthetic of Toussaint’s work combines dance and other art forms such as; creative writing, film, poetry, beat-box, singing and acting to tell stories capable of bringing a variety of audiences together. Akeim’s movement is informed by methodologies of KickBoxing, Yoga, Capoeira, Caribbean Dance,Hip Hop and Contemporary Dance.

Improvisation and acute listening are at the core of Toussaint’s practice of vocalisation and movement, called Beatmotion. The artist embraces the holistic potential of performance to translate the affective dimension of socio-political realities.

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