ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER

Mary Sheldon Scott (Molly) – Choreographer and visual artist Mary Sheldon Scott has been exploring visual media and creating performance works for over 40 years. Since 1993 Scott has worked in a dedicated collaboration with nationally renowned composer Jarrad Powell, and in 1994 they formed Scott/Powell Performance to explore the intersection of movement, sound, and visual territories. Scott/Powell is particularly recognized for its repertoire of “mysterious and beautiful works filled with oblique references to the natural world.” (The Seattle Weekly)

The work of Scott/Powell has been presented through On the Boards, Velocity Dance Center’s Made-in-Seattle and SCUBA programs, Myrna Loy Theater/Helena Presents, PICA’s T:BA Festival, Dance Theater Workshop/NYC, The Southern Theater/Minneapolis, PNB’s Celebrate Seattle Festival, Reed College/Portland, and Composer/Choreographer. Projects of Scott/Powell have received funding from the National Performance Network/Creation Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Artist Trust, 4Culture, Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture/Seattle.

Scott's visual work has been exhibited through the Center of Contemporary Art (CoCA), BASE Experimental Arts Space, Velocity Dance Center’s V2 Gallery, and through Open Studio events at Scott/Powell's Beebe & Runyon Studio and The Creative Corridor.

For more information visit www.scottpowell.org; www.marysheldonscott.com; www.jarradpowell.com

SELECT PRESS

…each dancer is so distinctive and the contrasts between them are so nicely sequenced and deployed that you feel as if you’re watching some numinous drama unfolding – one that could never be precipitated into words…Scott takes her time with every dancer, pulling you deep into his or her essence, in a work that’s beautifully orchestrated and dazzlingly performed. (Michael Upchurch, Seattle Critic)

Scott’s choreography draws me into the quality of movement - sometimes languid sometimes aggressive, sometimes nervous and birdlike...It’s like watching tigers lope or antelopes run; the whole animal moves, each limb of its own accord…Scott’s dance springs from the sinews, the blood, the meat, and it gives even moments of ungainliness a kind of organic, affectless beauty. (Bret Fetzer, Seattle Critic)

Astonishing work of visual, musical, and physical art. (Trey Hatch, The Stranger)

...so compelling it seems to shuck off the structure that brought it into being and take on a wild, hybrid life of its own. (Mary Murfin-Bailey, The Seattle Times)

Think David Lynch doing a take on Swan Lake for National Geographic. (Brangien Davis, The Seattle Times)

This is what great and lasting art does - taps into some essential humanness on a cellular level. (Brangien Davis, The Seattle Times)

Choreographer Molly Scott and Powell seem to read each other's minds with a lithe, mercurial accuracy. (Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times)