Akeim Toussaint Buck is a multifaceted performing artist, born in Jamaica and raised in England. He seeks to create moving, thought provoking yet accessible and free spirited projects. Since graduating from Northern School of Contemporary Dance with a rst-class hons BA in Performing Arts, Akeim has been involved in cross-disciplinary projects working with a wide range of artists. His focus as a maker and collaborator

is to combine expressive skills such as dance, writing and poetry, beat-box, singing and acting through performance and telling new stories that reach beyond existing dance audiences. Since graduating, Akeim has worked on numerous projects with different artists and companies around the UK as a dancer, beatboxer and actor.

Employment history includes: Pauline Mayers (Mayers Ensemble), Chris Goode & Co, Balbir Singh Dance, Jamaal Burkmar Dance, John Liron (Wolf Kid Theatre), Heather Walrond Dance and Ballet Lorent.

Akeim regularly collaborates with fellow NSCD graduate Otis Jones, under the name Snakebox.

Windows Of Displacement is Akeim’s rst solo work exploring personal narratives, ancestral memory and the shifting and increasingly urgent politics surrounding the movement of people.