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Celebrating Dance through Performance and Education
MISSION | Fuzión Dance Artists is a contemporary modern dance company that fuses various dance forms while collaborating with artists and serving communities through educational programming and performances. "A heart at peace gives life to the body…" (Proverbs 14:30)
HISTORY | Leymis Bolaños Wilmott and Rachael Inman began working together in Florida State University’s graduate program in 2000. Not only did the two share an Arabic heritage, most importantly, they shared a vision to collaborate, create and celebrate through life experiences. They both spent time developing programming for the FSUdanceSARASOTA initiative, and Wilmott decided to establish roots in the area. In 2005, they decided to incorporate and subsequently, form a non-profit organization. The two collaborate with professional artists within their respective communities to inform and expose audiences to various dance genres through a contemporary approach. As they choreograph and instruct, Wilmott and Inman aim to cultivate audiences and provide a safe environment for the expression of ideas for participants.
Having appeared for 5 years at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art’s Historic Asolo Theatre, other regional venues include:
- Alabama Ballet Center for Dance studio theatre
- The Players Theater
- Manatee Players Theatre
- Mertiz Theater
- The Backlot, Village Cabaret
- Shaw Center’s Manship Theatre
- University of South Florida
- New World School of the Arts
- Florida State University
- University of Florida
- University of Kentucky
- Webster University
- South Florida Museum
- Salvador Dali Museum
- Children’s Dance Foundation
- Art Center of Sarasota
- Glenridge Performing Arts
- New College of Florida
- Birmingham Children’s Theatre
- Birmingham Dance Festival
- Florida Dance Festival
- Jane B. Cook Theater
- Global Education Center (Father Ryan High School Theater)
- South Carolina Contemporary Dance Festival
- The Palladium
- The Studio @ 620
- Longboat Key Education Center
- Longboat Key Center for the Arts
National venues include:
- John F. Kennedy Center
- Merce Cunningham Studio Theatre
- Koger Center for the Arts
- Chicago Theatre Building, and the
- Ailey City Group Theatre
- David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts
Grants:
- 2011 State of the Arts Opportunity Grant (Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County)
- 2011 General Program Support Grant (Florida Department of State)
- 2007 Arts Organization Grant (Manatee County Cultural Alliance)
- 2006 Opportunity Grant (Sarasota Arts Council)
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