Toussaint to Move | Leap 2026

Saturday 2nd May

7:30pm

Issues surrounding migration, home, borders and identity pose some of the biggest questions of our time. Choreographed and performed by Akeim Toussaint Buck, Windows of Displacement, is an autobiographical solo blending dance, song and spoken word. Through the lens of imperialism, colonialism and global displacement, he weaves a story that speaks to the experiences and lives entangled in the politics of power and oppression.

Using his own journey of migration from Jamaica to the UK as a catalyst, Toussaint Buck presents the threads connecting oppression, from the Transatlantic Slave Trade, to the current mining and exploitation of the Congo. Opening the evening is a new piece by Dawn Holgate, commissioned by Culture Liverpool for Leap.

Dawn has collaborated with The Dancing Queens (a community group of Global Majority women based at The Caribbean Centre in Toxteth) on a work exploring radical Black joy, resilience, collective care and powerful narratives of womanhood

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Part of Leap Dance Festival 2026. Commissioned by Yorkshire Dance Amplified and Northern School of Contemporary Dance through the Northern Connections programme, delivered in partnership with Spin Arts and Leeds Beckett University. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.