Dance and Sounds have given me an avenue to live out my thought process and freely express my deepest emotions. It has been a place of investigation, experimentation and a new experience of liberality and humanity. It is a journey into my being, where I experience solace as I journey through this paradoxical life.
My objective is to share, experience diversities, create an experience of the human state of mind in the present society and also promote the human and environmental cultural heritage for peaceful coexistence and harmony. I use the artistic prowess of the Yoruba culture to commune with my audience and I am keen on exploring new ideas as well as performing in new and unconventional spaces.
The world and existence as a whole is one and the dancer stands as the unifying body who expresses the oneness of existence as the body moves with the music, respecting nature and moving with the air around us. I feel my body, I see my space, I observe, I listen, I don’t think, I just give it to my senses and I move, unifying the natural sounds around in music through rhythmic heartbeat. ÌFẸ́ KAN!
TOSIN OYEBISI popularly known as Oluwatosin Oyee is a multidisciplinary artiste: a Dancer, Bassist, Sound Artist and Visionary with entrepreneurial skill. He has participated in, initiated, and coordinated a number of projects. He gained his dance and theatre training experience by working with Isioma Williams, Qudus Onikeku and Adedayo Liadi.
He created and performed live sounds/music for the solo dance piece ‘Just Me’ by Esther Essien that won the award of ‘PRIX YONGONLON OU MEILLEUR ESPOIR’ at the ‘Africa, Simply the best contest’ 2019 organized by ANKATA in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.
He holds BSc. Physics degree from Lagos State University; Certificates in: Performing Arts and Theatre Administration – Drumsview Academy; Art Management (The Cycle)– Coursera (Devos Institute of Arts Management, University of Maryland); Leadership Program – YALI Regional Leadership Center West Africa Accra, Ghana; and Cultural Management, Arterial Network.
Growing up as a science Student, and finding himself in between science and art, he applies the acquired knowledge of science and art to his creations for he believes that dance is both science and art. He is the artistic director of TANTOLOUN Productions a performing arts company in Lagos with a focus on human, cultural and socioeconomic development.
He has participated in workshops organized by QDance Center, Dance Gathering, Saavy Contemporary, Ijodee Dance Company, British Council, Candoco Dance Company, Goethe Institute, MAMAZA etc. He has performed as musician and dancer at FARaway Festival Reims France, La Dynamo Banlieues bleues Paris, Residency at Cesare – National Center for Musical Creation, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Ancienne Belgique Concerts, Brussels Belgium; Addis Ababa Ethiopia; TED Global Arusha Tanzania; FIBE Bogso-Eseka Cameroun; MASA Ivory Coast and others.
PERFORMANCES/PROJECTS:
OTHER ARTISTIC ENGAGEMENTS
AFFILIATIONS
Tantoloun Productions
Drumsview Concept
The QDance Company
Arterial Network Nigeria