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After working in the ballet field professionally, Gregory Scott finished his PhD dissertation, Unearthing Aristotle's Dramatics: Why There is No Theory of Literature in the Poetics, under Francis Sparshott at the University of Toronto, while also studying there under one of the esteemed 20th century scholars of the Poetics, Daniel de Montmollin. He then taught for four years as a full-time philosopher at universities in the U.S. and Canada. Afterwards, he simultaneously engaged in a post-doctoral fellowship under Sarah (Waterlow) Broadie at Princeton University (Philosophy) while directing the doctoral program in dance education at New York University. At NYU, he created The Practice & Theory of Teaching Ballet, with co-directors that included Claude Bessy of the Paris Opera Ballet School and Dinna Bjorn of the Royal Danish Ballet. Having partly supported himself during graduate school with work in Information Technologies, he also created the first computer course at NYU involving dance composition with the software LifeForms (now DanceForms) and with LabanWriter (based on Labanotation). Scott's publications include The Poetics of Performance: The Necessity of Performance, Spectacle, Music, and Dance in Aristotelian Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 1999). His Purging the Poetics (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 2003) has generated substantial debate on both sides of the Atlantic, with some internationally-known specialists considering him to have solved finally the problem of catharsis in Aristotle's definition of tragedy. He has published on the philosophy of dance in journals such as Dance Research Journal, including Twists and Turns: Modern Misconceptions of Peripatetic Dance Theory (Dance Research, Edinburgh University Press, 2005). Scott occasionally teaches The Meaning of Life in Humanities at NYU (SPS), and published Aristotle on Dramatic Musical Composition: The Real Role of Literature, Catharsis, Music and Dance in the Poetics, also with CreateSpace/Amazon (2016). His A Primer on Aristotle's DRAMATICS (also known as the POETICS) is forthcoming in 2018.

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