Lineage
Choreography: Andee Scott for and with Helen French
Dancers: Helen French
Sound: Chihei Hatakeyama and Dustin O’Halloran
Costume: Terri Funaro
Helen French
Helen Hansen French received her BFA from The Juilliard School and her MFA from Hollins University. Helen joined Buglisi Dance Theatre (NYC) in 2001 where she rose to principal dancer and served as rehearsal director. She has toured nationally and internationally, and been instrumental in staging BDT’s works throughout the world including at The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Pieve International School in Italy. As a creative she focuses on collaborations and in support of her work has been awarded a 2015, 2016, and 2017 Individual Artist Grant from the City of St. Petersburg, she was also a 2016 and 2021 Creative Pinellas Artist Fellow and she was the 2021 Creative Pinellas Artist Laureate. In her work as an educator and arts advocate she has served on numerous dance faculties including George Mason University and The Juilliard School. Helen is currently adjunct faculty at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High School and a teaching artist with Creative Clay. She is a founding member of the St. Petersburg Dance Alliance and a St. Petersburg Arts Alliance board member.
Andee Scott
Andee Scott is a dance artist based in St. Petersburg, FL. In recent years, her focus on dance as public art has led her to creating, curating, and producing large-scale, site-specific dance performance events including Dance in the Time of Coronavirus, a socially-distanced dance performance series, as well as Our Town and Our Trail. Her choreography with dance, video, and projection has been commissioned by dance companies and university programs, and her dances have been produced and performed nationally and internationally, most recently in Sweden, Mexico, and China. As a dancer, Andee was a member of Sharir+Bustamante Danceworks and Blue Lapis Light in Austin, TX, and Deja Donne in Italy, and she performed with David Dorfman Dance and AlienNationCo., under the direction of Johannes Birringer. Currently, she is in rehearsal with a group of dancers working on a new performance project with choreographer Jeanine Durning. She was selected as a resident artist at Djerassi in 2011 and is on faculty at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
