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2011
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Ongoing Workshops - available on request
Choirs
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Starting a choir? Interested in boosting engagment in your singing ensemble?
These workshops cultivate the joy of singing, encouraging singers to move and feel the music throughout the entire body, foster the production of good tone, get people breathing, listening, moving and laughing. |
Syncretic Art
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Syncretic Art is the fusion diverse elements: visual art, music, theatre, dance.
These workshops empower participants to explore creative expression through diverse outlets: drawing, painting, sculpting, singing, speaking, playing, performing and dancing.
Participants learn to "dance" a sculpture, or "sing" a painting, responding to colour, shape and texture through sound and movement. Syncretic art workshops enable participants to release pent-up emotions and explore deep personal issues.
• learn how a composer, choreographer or artist creates a work, interprets a score and conveys it to performers
• learn how a performer utilizes masks & props
• discover the underlying process of the development of art, music, dance & theatre over the past 1000 years
• develop & present a unique & engaging performance/exhibition for peers, friends, colleagues, and the public...
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Mask
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From ancient and powerful to fun and contemporary masks fire up the imagination and unlock the inner eye. Masks may conceal and protect, reveal and enlighten, delight and enchant, amuse or frighten. Explore your relationship to the world around you, tap into the ancient and powerful through fun and contemporary mask and performance
In this workshop students create unique, comfortable, durable masks designed for active use in performance. Together we unleash the imagination, explore creative movement, dance, music, sound and theatre and bring the mask to life.
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Business in the Arts
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Essential for survival in the professional arts world, these intensive one-day Business in the Arts workshops introduce students to the basics of:
• grant and proposal writing
• applying for grants: private & government funders,
• preparing and understanding contracts
• website design
• preparing the portfolio
• documentation of artwork
• marketing and promotion
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Latin & Ballroom dance
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Interested in having fun, keeping fit, releasing tension, alleviating depression and meeting great people?
Learn to dance Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Cha Cha, Tango, Rumba, Fox Trot, Waltz, Swing...
In private or group sessions participants learn:
• fundamental Latin and Ballroom dance steps,
• spins
• styling patterns
• fun routines
Amanta focuses on helping participants learn to listen to and connect with the music; develop social grace & poise; and feel comfortable participating at parties and in the clubs.
Choreographed dances and routines for weddings and other special events are also available upon request.
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Basics of Musicianship
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Many dancers and actors are wonderful performers but when it comes to music they have no critical understanding of what they are hearing.
These workshops introduce dancers, performers, actors, artists and other interested participants to the basics of music. Participants learn:
• what to listen for
• how to feel beat "one"
• how to count music
• reading and writing charts
• feeling and hearing phrases |
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for more information contact Amanta Scott
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looking back . . .
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2010
WeavingSongs
This process-oriented Syncretic Art workshop directed by Amanta Scott was originally designed for Burmese/Karen refugees and immigrants seeking to facilitate integration into Canadian Society through the arts.
The workshop evolved in two stages and drew a greater range of participants than originally imagined: refugees, immigrants and internally displaced persons from Burma, Sri Lanka, India, Ethiopia, China and Canada.
WeavingSongs - Stage One took place at the Ethiopian Association in the GTA. Check out the Stage One photo gallery.
WeavingSongs - Stage Two took place at Harmony Hall Centre for Seniors and culminated in a public performance which was attended by an audience of 130 people. Check out the Stage Two photo gallery.
directed by Amanta Scott
March - May 2010
Harmony Hall
2 Gower Street, Toronto
WeavingSongs has been made possible thanks to the generous support of:
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2008
Conquering Stage Fright workshop
At the request of some of her students, Amanta offered a series of workshops on conquering stage fright in performance for all instrumentalists, vocalists and performers. This was an informal gathering once a month, by appointment, at her studio. The events were well attended and participants learned a great deal from each other.
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2007
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University Settlement Choir • ShellShock II
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This five month workshop, commencing November 2006 - February 2007, integrated sound, found objects & movement with music composed by Amanta Scott.
In October 2007 Amanta began composing a music score for choir. The University Settlement Choir agreed to participate in a syncretic arts workshop to develop the work, and several of the choristers participated in a video component.In November, she began directing weekly Thursday evening syncretic art workshops with the University Settlement Choir as led by Teodora Georgieva.
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Amanta composed a score and script with lyrics sung in spanish, sound effects and choreography were conveyed through graphic scoring. The work was composed for a 35-voice choir with three professional performers: Anne-Marie Hood, dancer-choreographer Allison Cummings and Amanta; and eight volunteers (including four professional artists): Gary Carper, Tania Carter, Lynn Himmelmann, Ed Oikawa, Ellen Skura, John Watkis, Phyllis Whyte and Jim Montgomery; and a sound sculpture installation of 120-dozen eggshells with which performers interacted.
This work, entitled Shellshock II, was presented by Leading Tone Arts Productions in association with Music Gallery.
The performance also utilized an enormous and resonant iron bowl in which Amanta placed 190 names of the victims of the train bombing – written on vellum, which allowed for an audible crinkling sound as performers unfolded and read each of the names during the performance.
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ShellShock
(workshop production 2)
featuing an encaustic sculpture,
eggshells, new music,
three lead dancer/vocalists
and a 35-voice choir.
presented by
Leading Tone Arts Productions
in association with Music Gallery
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Shellshock honours the victims of the train bombing,
March 11th 2004 in Madrid;
and the countless other souls loved and lost
through wars, disasters & untimely death.
Consider the phrase “walking on eggshells” as it pertains to our bodies; sexuality; inter-personal relationships; a mine field; a mass grave; a street after a massacre . . .
This workshop production, presented to a full house,
was made possible through the generous support of:
Bonjour Brioche
Austin & Beverly Clarkson
John & Judy Grant
Corinne Langston & Desmond Scott
Glady Richards
John & B.J. Klassen
Juxtaposing individual and global grief,
Shellshock explores inner turmoil and trauma
in the path towards personal redemption & healing.
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2005
Found•Sounds•Moving Syncretic Arts Workshop
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Found•Sounds•Moving Syncretic Arts Workshop was directed by Amanta Scott with David Tomlinson and dancer Philip Drube in conjunction with her exhibition of LockDown presented by Art Gallery of Algoma. Daily workshops were offered to the general community, schools groups and special interest groups, including youth from juvenile detention centres.
Fostering appreciation and understanding for contemporary art: building bridges between art and the public, the workshop encouraged participants to to develop their own interpretations of the artworks and create their personal responses to them through art, sound and movement. The workshop aimed to expand the public's 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. Found•Sounds•Moving was made possible thanks to the generous support of Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council. |
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copyright @ 2011 • All Rights Reserved • Amanta Scott • www.amantascott.com • Revised: Thursday, May 5, 2011
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