Amanta Scott


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Shellshock

A syncretic art production featuring a pathway of broken eggshells, an encaustic sculpture, new music, voice and dance. First workshop production presented in association with the FCJ Refugee Centre conference on Gender and Migration at The Church of the Holy Trinity, Toronto.


Arising Phoenix

A syncretic art installation integrating the dramatic assembly of a phoenix sound sculpture with exciting percussion music played upon found objects, haunting vocalizations and movement. Feature venues include:
The National Gallery of Canada
Art Gallery of Algoma
Thunder Bay Art Gallery

Found Sounds Moving
syncretic art workshop designed to augment the exhibition of Lockdown by Amanta Scott at the Art Gallery of Algoma, and foster appreciation and understanding for contemporary art.

The workshop encouraged participants to use the art exhibition as a catalyst for presentations integrating voice, percussion, sound, movement and visual arts. Building bridges between art and the public, the workshop expanded public understanding of contemporary visual arts by bringing them into the institutions whose mandate it is to build understanding and by bringing the arts into the education arena.

Resonating Waters

four-month workshop for 35 dance students integrating found objects, music and dance culminating in public performance. Claude Watson School of Arts

Glove Forest

Dragon Tango

A syncretic art installation for two performers integrating voice, percussion, movement and performance with two dragon sound sculptures: an eastern dragon and a western dragon.
Feature venues include:
The Royal Ontario Museum
Edmonton Art Gallery
Singapore International Arts Festival

O Canada

Virago Project Series

Conceived and created by Amanta Scott in 1992, Virago Project explored the Concise Oxford Dictionary's definition of "Virago" as "a bold, boisterous warrior woman wandering under three names: Selene, Artemis, Persephone". The Virago Project featured four Goddess Sound Sculptures, archetypal images of the multi-dimensional female.

Evolving over several years, Virago Project underwent numerous incarnations, fascinated audiences of all ages and was presented in over 25 Toronto venues including: Art Gallery of Ontario, BCE Place, CBC Barbara Frum Atrium, the Music Gallery, Theatre Passe Muraille, ArtWord Theatre and Tarragon Theatre.

Virago Project was sponsored by the Ontario Arts Council, City of York Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Metro Arts Council, M.M Webb Foundation, and The Imperial Oil Charitable Foundation.
La Châine TV produced a video documentary on Virago Project which was broadcast internationally.

The Beggars' Nativity

A musical produced by Kensington Carnival Theatre

I Do, I Do
A musical produced by Spotlight Theatre
freelance Choral Director and organist
  • Oakwood United Church
  • St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
  • Leaside Presbyterian Church
  • Silverthorn United Church
  • Glebe Road United Church
  • Morningside High Park Presbyterian Church
  • Manor Road United Church

directing history
syncretic art director

2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2005 - 2000 | 1998 | 1996 | 1995 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1988 | 1987 | 1978

guest artist /workshop director

2006 | 2005 | 1994 | 1993 - 1995 | 1996 | 1998 | 2000 | 2001 | 2004 - 2005

music theatre director

1991 | 1988

choral/ music director

1992 - present



2006



ShellShock
syncretic art production
Church of the Holy Trinity
FCJ Refugee Centre conference



TASIS School in Dorado,
Puerto Rico
syncretic art workshop
music director:
• Farmer Memorial Baptist Church
• Christ Embassy Church
2005


Found Sounds Moving
syncretic art workshop
Art Gallery of Algoma



Resonating Waters
syncretic arts workshop
Claude Watson School of the Arts

2000
- 2005

Arising Phoenix
syncretic art production
2002

Glove Forest
video art installation
1996
- 1998
Dragon Tango
syncretic art production
1995

O Canada
syncretic art production
1992
- 2004
freelance Choral Director,
organist
1992
- 1995
Virago Project Series
syncretic art production
1991



The Beggars' Nativity
musical theatre
music director, composer, keyboards
1988


I Do, I Do
musical theatre
music director, keyboards


© 2006 Amanta Scott
Revised: Mon, May 22, 2006