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 Leymis Bolaños
Wilmott (Co- Founder/Artistic Director) was a recipient of the
2006 Sarasota Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, was nominated
in 2005 by Sarasota Magazine as best choreographer in a
musical for Miss Saigon presented at the Players’ Theatre, and
received the Dance Magazine award in 2002 for Southeast Best
Choreographer. Her work has been performed nationally at the John F.
Kennedy Center,
Chicago Theatre Building,
Florida Dance Festival,
Merce Cunningham Studio and Ailey City Group Theatre in NYC. This year,
Ms. Wilmott’s works have been performed at the Shaw Center
in Baton Rouge, Birmingham
(Alabama) Jefferson Civic Complex
Theater, Kroger Center of the Arts in South
Carolina and the East Village Cabaret in Sarasota, FL.
This is also her fourth year as the resident choreographer for West
Coast Black Theatre Troupe’s presentation of Black Nativity, by Langston Hughes. Ms. Wilmott is the
first in the state to receive a certificate in Dance and Healing from the University
of Florida and has a Master of
Fine Arts in Performance/Choreography from Florida State
University. Ms.
Wilmott served as the Academic Program Coordinator for Florida Stat
University’s local
program, FSUdanceSARASOTA, coordinating dance programs for Sarasota and
Manatee schools and community centers. Her deep love for education and
community building continues as she advocates for dance as a Teaching
Artist through the Sarasota Arts Council, Manatee Arts Council, Van
Wezel Performing Arts Center, and Prodigy – an arts program
funded by the Division of Juvenile Justice, Bay Area Youth – and USF.
She is also an Adjunct Professor of Dance at Booker
High School, New College of
Florida, and St.
Petersburg College.
She also provides multi-generational classes at the YMCA through her
dance company. Ms. Wilmott believes in sharing dance with people of all ages and truly loves what she
does.
 Rachael Inman(Co-Founder/Associate Director) has a Master of Fine Arts in
Dance from Florida
State University.
She is currently exploring the genre of Aerial Dance through her
choreographic work and feels her investigation and interest in “flying”
reflects a common curiosity in mankind. While researching the form she
was fortunate to study with Terry Sendgraff, a pioneer of Aerial Dance
and the low-flying trapeze. One of Mrs. Inman’s aerial solos, By a Thread…, was
commissioned by “Of Moving Colors Productions” in Baton Rouge, LA
and was selected to be performed in the Louisiana Alliance for Dance
Festival in 2005. She has also worked within the field of dance
technology and has produced an aerial video-dance that was selected for
the 2003 “Dance Beyond the Stage” film festival. Most
recently, she has been inspired to collaborate with the licensed
therapist Melea Stephens to develop a dance therapy curriculum that
addresses the female body image while employing movement material that
originates from Middle Eastern technique. Her love of dance education
has brought her to teach in a range of venues with an even wider range
of individuals from the young to the “young at heart”. Ms.
Inman has taught at the American College Dance Festival, Florida Dance
Educators Conference, the Alabama Dance Festival, the South Carolina
Dance Festival and most recently served as guest faculty at the Alabama
School of Fine Arts. She is currently on the ballet faculty at Birmingham (Alabama)
Dance Theatre, but most importantly, is the proud mother of two
wonderful daughters and partner to a most supportive husband. Through Fuzión, she continues to pursue instructing,
choreography and performance endeavors that combine elements of her
heritage with inspiration from an eclectic life.
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