Le Scott
Director, Theatre Evolving Arts
Financial Planning Consultant
evolvingarts@nc.rr.com

About the Director

Le Scott is a renaissance man—musician, economist, playwright, actor, social worker, choreographer, novelist, compose, tennis pro, record producer, farmer, soccer pro, and philosopher. He sees the connections among things. For example, music, dance ad tennis, which he brought together in his concept of transcendental tennis in 1997 and concert tennis in 1981.

The Rhythms of Tennis grew out of this concept, and Scott's extensive arts and sports background. He was born in Philadelphia, where he studied composition at the Curtis Institute and flute with William Kincade, principal flutist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. At Stetson University in Florida, he played tennis and soccer, earning all-conference status in soccer. 

His international experience includes a degree from the London School of Economics, a stint with the British Football League as a midfielder, and a tour of Japan with his own jazz group. In Japan, he studied with clarinetist Tony Scott and worked with the Kabuki Theatre. 

In early 1970s, he immersed himself in New York City's seminal "performance art" scene involving jazz, dance and theatre. His collaborators were choreographers Alvin Alley and Eric Hawkins, and jazzmen Sam Rivers, Ornette Colman, and Charles Mingus. Later in the decade, Le Scott moved to Virginia, where he became a tennis pro and founded TEA (Theatre for the Evolving Arts), a non-profit foundation, whose programs, publications, and recordings evolve his ideas of integrating sports and the arts. Le Scott now resides in Durham, North Carolina. 

—Owen Cordle, The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
downbeat, Jazz Times