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Gut
With “Gut”, Connor Scott continues in their practice of excavating past dances, gestures and inherent rhythms that stem from bodies that came before our own. Drawing from practices of drag and butoh influences, Scott use these as tools in which to (re)invoke a metaphysical relationship to bodies and places that we inherit and inhabit without choice. In unearthing their own personal archive, folk songs and dances emerge as materials for invocation, allowing the body’s behaviour to be shaped by choreographic and musical echoes from ancestors and strangers alike.
Connor Scott
Connor Scott is a British dancer and choreographer, born in North Tyneside and based in Lisbon, Portugal. They have collaborated with artists such as Theo Clinkard (UK), Michael Keegan Dolan (IRE), Bullyache (UK), João Dos Santos Martins (PT), Marcelo Evelin (BRZL) and Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz (PT). Connor’s choreographic practice is rooted in the excavation of dances with attention to their rhythm and the presence they invoke. Drawing on the deviant quality that dance and the body naturally possess, Connor follows these deviations leading them to performative states that embody ideas of appearing and disappearing. Having danced ballroom and latin dances in their youth, they recall techniques and rhythms from embodied knowledge and pair this with archival practices to invoke past, present and future bodies transforming and deviating from normative figures, gestures and behaviours to establish alternative ones through dance.