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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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