Free to Move: A Night Exploring Freedom
12A
Toussaint To Move warmly invites you to join us for a night of freedom dancing on screen and collective sharing of what it means to be free. Presenting three films from award-winning artists Akeim Toussaint Buck and Ashley Karrell to instigate an exchange on the pursuit and experience of freedom. The films presented on the evening include: Reckoning, Negus and the multi-award winning Displaced. The screening will be followed by a group conversation led by Akeim Toussaint Buck.
Reckoning is a multimedia short film and performance piece created by a collaboration of Liberty EU Portfolio artists - Choreographer and Storyteller Akeim Toussaint Buck, Filmmaker Ashley Karrell, Animator Benedetta Fasson and Writer mandla rae. Weaving together contemporary lyrical dance, archive, animation and storytelling, Reckoning has been created from the Reckoning with Refugeedom archives which tell the stories of generations of displaced people in their own words.
Negus, the title bestowed on Emperors of Ethiopia, the Kings of Kings. This is an initiation, a story of anointing beckoned to the receiver from within. A striking figure narrates this poetic world of form and formlessness, evoking a sense of spirit and other worldliness. Dance and music transiently immerse this journey from the still darkness of the unknown to the coronation of the child.
Our ascension doesn’t start from any outward action, it takes place from our acknowledgement of our greatness. Created in collaboration by Akeim Toussaint Buck, Muti Musafiri, Azizi Cole, Solomon The Wizard and Ashley Karrell.
Displaced is the cinematic reimagining of Akeim Toussaint Buck’s one-man dance theatre show: Windows of Displacement. Created and Co-Directed by Ashley Karrell, the film continues the exploration of themes such as: displacement, race, culture and imperialism. Focussing more on the African Diaspora via the settings of the inner-city community.
Taking aspects of the live work and re-contextualising them in real life spaces that support in amplifying this feeling of displacement. Giving the viewer a fraction of the feeling of being displaced people. Visually captivating with striking imagery and virtuoso dance, Displaced takes the viewer on a journey calling for reflection and global change.
This project is supported by Sadler’s Wells and Arts Council England
Films produced by To Move and Panoptical
Find out more about the artists here:
www.Toussainttomove.com / @toussainttomove
www.AshleyKarrell.com / @ashleykarrell