Photo supplied by Body Art
Wednesday 2 September – 19h00
Thursday 3 September – 12noon (repeat screening)
Dance for Camera Work
legal canvas
Direction: Leslie Scott
Performers: Jonathan Bryant, Kayla Johnson, Heather Raburn
Video + Editing: Heather Rebecca
In Partnership with Beautify Earth – 2017
afternoon gold
Direction + Editing: Leslie Scott
Performer: Rachel Abrahams
Premiere: 2018 – Portland Dance Film Festival
re/stage
Cinematography + Editing: Jason Bahling
Artistic Direction: Leslie Scott
Music Composition: Benjamin Shelton
Performers: Megan Krauszer, Andrea Lanzetti, Steph Mas, Erin Okayama, Allison Ploor, Andi Work.
Premiere: Triskelion Film Festival, Brooklyn 2012
Photo supplied by BodyArt
Dance for Stages
Water Story
Direction: Leslie Scott (Premiere 2019)
Performers: Rachel Abrahams, Isabel Umali, Jasmine Sugar, Kristi Tornga and the GSVU students
Video Design: Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh
THREAD
Irondale Arts Center & Summerhall @ Edinburgh Fringe (co-production) 2014
Direction: Leslie Scott
Video Design: Jesse Garrison & Sofy Yudiskaya
Performers: Rachel Abrahams, Amanda McNussen, Erin Okayama, Kayla Farrish, Allison Ploor
Amy Falls, Andrea Lanzetti, Hee EUn Song
Leslie Scott – photo supplied by BodyArt
Leslie Scott is the founder and Artistic Director of the New Orleans based BODYART Dance Company, and Assistant Professor of Dance and New Media at Tulane University. Scott regularly combines her decades of experience in producing and non-profit development for her multiple teaching and consulting activities across the globe. As a choreographer, working in both traditional and non-traditional spaces, her work has been performed in notable venues and sites from LA, NYC, Dallas, St Louis, New Orleans, Houston, Edinburgh, New Zealand and Durban, South Africa. Scott holds an MFA in Choreography from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA in Modern Dance, with an emphasis in photography, from Texas Christian University.