About Amanta
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Exploring unity in our diversity, my projects provide a forum for dialogue and reflection; for both personal and public exploration, performance and meaningful self-expression; and for ongoing interaction and discussion between Artist and Public.
Visitors of all ages, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds frequently give way to tears, hug and thank me, and pour out stories of imprisonment and freedom; alienation, depression; isolation, community; desperation and hope. Visitors include themselves and their personal effects in her installations; and say they imagine themselves in my paintings.
I directed a six-month arts program touring youth-created performances and sculpture installations to festivals and seniors residences across Central Ontario, commissioned by Human Resources Development Canada; conducted a three-year project for Harmony Hall Centre for Seniors, with Chinese, Bengali, Tamil, West Indian and English-speaking seniors singing in each others’ languages; and have directed art workshops at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts; TASIS School in Puerto Rico; Rexdale Community Hub, Toronto (conducted in eight languages); and in schools across Ontario, in Edmonton, Tokyo, and Taiwan.
Selected solo shows
commissions
Awards
education / PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
MUSIC
1987 — University of Toronto, BMUS, Theory & Composition; York University, Jazz Piano
1995 — Ancient Voice: Tahara Junko: Tokyo, Japan
ART
1995 — Noh Mask Carving: Master Classes with Fujio Fujimori: Tokyo, Japan
1990 — Sculpture - Central Technical School Art Centre
DANCE
2005 — Latin & Ballroom Dance: Love to Dance Studio;
— Independent dance studies in Toronto1995 — Ancient Dance: Takeko Sudo;
— Butoh Dance Master Classes: Kazuo Ono: Tokyo, Japan
When not painting, sculpting or performing, Amanta Scott is a professional pianist, organist and teacher, with a unique and effective method centred on conscious success-based learning, and working with a metronome to cultivate musicianship, self-awareness and serenity.
Amanta Scott is the grand daughter of British composer Cyril Scott, as well as the Administrator for the Cyril Scott Estate and the official Cyril Scott website which she designed and maintains. For more information please visit www.cyrilscott.net .
Other notable ancestors include: Moïse Allatini, Rose Laure Allatini, Darius Milhaud, Marcel Dassault and Darius Paul Dassault, Eric Allatini, Edith Porada, Solomon Loeb Rapoport and others.
2018 — Museum of Northern History
2015 — Artist Project Toronto
2011 — Festival International Montréal En Arts
2008 — ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche Toronto
2005 — Art Gallery of Algoma