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Marquese Scott (USA)
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April 15, 12:00
 To see music. To reveal music. To open the whole world in the language of movement, creating a new sense of time. To open emotions which can be felt but not defined. To touch this world by music. A new era dancer – Marquese Scott.
Marquese Scott (born November 5, 1981) is an American animation dancer who started firstly with popping dance. His work has been seen in music videos that he creates, TV shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, advertisements, and live performances at award shows. He has signed with Xcel Talent Agency and is part of the dance crew Dragon House. His YouTube channel is WHZGUD2. Marquese was first exposed to dancing when he noticed a dance contest at his local roller skating rink. He began to take dancing seriously while in high school in Indianapolis, Indiana, joining friends in a school dance club. After high school he joined the military and continued to dance whenever he got the opportunity. After leaving the Navy in 2003, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia to be with his family. It is there where he met other dancers and learned the technique of animations,
and began uploading YouTube videos of himself dancing in public places. Before he began his newfound skill of dancing, Scott worked at a local Wal-Mart. Marquese's 53rd YouTube upload, a video of himself dancing to a Butch Clancy remix of Foster the People's Pumped Up Kicks in 2011 is what propelled Marquese Scott to stardom. The Pumped Up Kicks video of Marquese dancing went viral, gaining 1.5 million views in four days, and currently has over 112 million views.
Marquese Scott’s dance reveals an instant which goes on as much as you want. Each moment of time can be stopped or continued. Each second – vibrates or even trembles in the sound of silence. One can say he is just dancing or moving. But in the dance language he creates some irreal visions revealing each instant of life. He opens the whole world in a special language of spontaneous movement, defining a new dimension of the time flow. “When you’re dancing the music is talking to you and you’re basically portraying the music to you. So, then you’re going to see a different visual side”. Marquese Scott reveals a special architectonics of the dance movement which can exist in any music genre: it is about modern Electronic Dance Music, Pop, and even Rock. In spite of the rhythm he opens a unique fluent shape of spontaneous motion playing with the space. How does it work? “You’re feel like if you are inside the music”.
But most often Marquese discloses strange rhythms of the most complicated music genre which is quite often is so difficult for a common perception and especially – for visualization. What can you say about dubstep? Only – listening. Such a complicated, chaotic, asymmetric and broken sense of rhythm – touches the mind, vibrating all nerves of consciousness. How can one dance to this music? A strange harmony of dissonances, an extended or distorted bass, and a refined manipulation with its rhythm, affected sub-bass – create a special dimension of silence. Or even of emptiness. It is about an intimate kind of silence which everyone feels or hears – in own way. In this music one can be dissolved or continued. One can place this music inside himself, but – to reveal yourself? I didn’t imagine how this could be. And he could reveal how one can move in these complicated or even irreal sounds. He opens the movement of time in the most complicated rhythms which touch all sides of our mind.
Marquese’s dance – always “unlocks” a special duality of the world. How? Because when you’re watching any of his videos – at the “background” you notice course of life. You notice the world’s breath. While Marquese creates the irreal movements of time – some random bird, or just the walking people, or stream of cars – any form of this world becomes a perfect space to reveal a new story told in the dance language. Or it is about a special language of silence in which music exists. Ignoring any lows of physics or limits of the body anatomy – he balances in a unique dimension: he falls without falling, he swims without water. While he is dancing – we notice new sides of the world, or some unique metaphors of life not defined yet in the verbal formulas. For example, in one of Marquese’s videos, while he was dancing as though he was moving in the water – behind him we can see a cripple who is unable to walk without stick. It is hard to imagine more painful dichotomy of human world. But it is not about some “pop” bitterness of life – it is about ability to show someone’s dream.
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