workshops for youth

2011

Ongoing Workshops - available on request


Choirs
 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

 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...

Mask
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.

Business in the Arts
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
Latin & Ballroom dance
 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.

Basics of Musicianship
 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

for more information contact Amanta Scott

looking back . . .

2005

Resonating Waters Syncretic Art Workshop integrating sound, found objects & movement
Claude Watson Arts Program: Nov 2004 - March 2005
The performance was like a living Calder sculpture!"
Alan Torok, Music Teacher, Claude Watson Arts Program

Concept, staging, voice, music and syncretic art direction:
by Amanta Scott and David Tomlinson
Costume design/ production: by Amanta Scott
Dance Teacher: Phyllis Whyte



Designed for students majoring in dance, this Syncretic Arts workshop introduced
forty-four grade 10 and grade 12 dance students to the fusion of
music for voice and found object percussion with movement.

The workshop ran from November 2004 through March 2005,
culminating in a public performance entitled 'Resonating Waters'
at Claude Watson Arts Program's Dance Night March 9th 2005.



What the students did:
• they created their own sounds (discovering instruments)
• they invented notation for sounds using abstract marks (creating a language)
• they drew the notation in a satisfying design (composing)
• they led groups in vocalizing the sounds (conducting)
• they presented the sound score in several ways (performing)
• they created movement in response to sounds (discovering movement)
• they created sounds in response to movement (discovering instruments and exploring creative impulses)

• they invented notation for movement using abstract marks (creating a language)
• they drew movement notation in a satisfying design (choreographing)
• they led groups in singing and performing the sounds (conducting/directing, integrating voice and dance)
• they presented the sound and movement scores in several ways (performing)

• they explored sonic potential of found objects (discovering instruments, improvising and composing)
• they explored the physical properties of the found objects (physics: weight, momentum)
• they developed presentations using found objects while vocalizing and moving (performing)


What they learned:
• how a composer and/or choreographer creates a work
• how a conductor/director or choreographer interprets a score and teaches it to performers
• how to perform a piece of music or dance
• cognitive links between creating works for music and dance
• how a performer utilizes props


Conclusion:
Students discovered the underlying process of the development of music and choreography over the past 1000 years and presented a unique and engaging public performance to their peers, friends, parents and teachers.
For information, rates and bookings contact Amanta Scott at:
info@amantascott.com


1995

Kaiping Highschool, Taipei, Taiwan

While in Taiwan, creating the installation Oh Canada, Amanta conducted Syncretic Art workshops for students at Kaiping Highschool, in Taipei, Taiwan.

Students participated in creating soundsculptures, and explore the integration of music, visual art, theatre and dance.


1994

Central Technical High School, Toronto

 Since 1998 Amanta has conducted workshops on Business in the Arts for students in the art department at Central Technical High School, a school whose art department for years rivalled that of Ontario College of Art and Design. Amanta led students through the basics of grant and proposal writing, web design, portfolio development and marketing.

copyright @ 2011 • All Rights Reserved • Amanta Scott • www.amantascott.com • Revised: Thursday, May 5, 2011