BIO
Ariel Scott is a performer, choreographer, and certified Countertechnique teacher. She holds a BFA in Dance Choreography from the University of California, Irvine, and an AA in Dance from Santa Monica College. She is a dancer with Kybele Dance Company, where she's had the pleasure of performing works by founding Artistic Director and choreographer Seda Aybay since 2023. As an independent artist, Ariel has choreographed for shows across LA and presented screendance work in festivals nationally. She has been invited to guest teach at CalArts, UC Irvine, and in workshops across Southern California. Ariel also holds frequent open classes, where she delights in sharing Countertechnique with the LA dance community.
Photo by Kim Doeleman
ARTIST STATEMENT
Dance has the power to transport the psyche, delight the mind, and tickle the senses. Dance can also embody and express the depth of human emotion and lived experiences and to mirror, escape, comment on, or challenge the cultural landscape in which it is created. My goal is to create work that explores the complexity of human experience and honors the importance of physicality in processing and (re)constructing the world around us.
Within my choreography, I am particularly interested in the ebb and flow between power and gracefulness, a lively interplay between sudden and sustained movement, a nonchalant or pedestrian approach to phrase work, and the embodiment of sonic elements. While strongly grounded in contemporary dance vocabulary and sensibilities, my choreography is shaped by a multitude of movement disciplines, including my background in Wushu (Chinese martial arts), and experience in the dance techniques contemporary/modern, ballet, jazz, Sundanese, Javanese, Hula, Tahitian, and West African. By pulling from a wide base of physical knowledge and individual experience, my work aims to explore and present experiences that are deeply personal yet widely shared.
