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Leymis Bolaños Wilmott is the Co-Founder/Artistic Director of Fuzión Dance Artists. She is a recipient of the 2008 Arts Leadership Award for Artistic Achievement from the Sarasota Arts Council, the Sarasota Artist Fellowship, and was nominated by Sarasota Magazine as best choreographer in a musical for Miss Saigon presented at the Players Theatre. Wilmott received the esteemed Dance Magazine award for Southeast Best Choreographer and most recently, she was listed as one of the top 28 Most Powerful People In The Arts for 2009.
Her work has been performed nationally at the John F. Kennedy Center, Shaw Center in Baton Rouge, Chicago Theatre Building, Florida Dance Festival, Merce Cunningham Studio and Ailey City Group Theatre in NYC, the Birmingham Jefferson Civic Complex Theater, Koger Center of the Arts in South Carolina, and the Manatee River Front Theater in Bradenton, Florida. She continues to choreograph for local groups like Westcoast Black Theater Troupe and Kaleidoscope (Asolo Repertory partnership with the Community Haven for adults and children with disabilities). Wilmott has collaborated with renowned composer Edward Cosla, percussionist Scott Blum, A. Paul Johnson with the Hello Dali project at the Dali Museum, and with Francis Schwartz on Kinda Cage-y which has been seen all over the world as part of the John Cage Trust.
Ms. Wilmott was 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 The Florida State University. Her deep love for education and community building continues as she advocates for dance as a Teaching Artist through the Arts and Cultural Alliance, Manatee Arts Council, and Van Wezel Performing Arts Center. She has taught at Booker High Visual and Performing Arts and is an Adjunct Professor of Dance at New College of Florida. Ms. Wilmott is a certified Pilates Instructor teaching at the Pilates Body in Sarasota she also serves as the Vice-President of the Florida Dance Association and on the Advisory Board of Sarasota Dance Alliance and Arts and Health Collation.
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Rachael Inman received her Master’s of Fine Arts in dance in 2002 and continues to pursue dance education in a myriad of ways, the most recent being Children’s Dance Foundation’s newest touring show teaching math through dance, “The Magic Circle”. She explores Aerial Dance through her choreographic work and feels her investigation and interest in "flying” reflects a common curiosity in mankind. Fuzion Dance Artists, Inc. is a modern dance collective she co-founded that blends traditional modern dance with various dance forms including Middle Eastern and aerial dance, as well as Afro-modern and technologically-infused work. Her Lebanese heritage has inspired her research in Middle Eastern dance and has lead her to collaboration with Licensed Therapist, Melea Stephens to develop dance therapy curriculum that addresses the female body image while employing movement material that originates from Middle Eastern dance techniques.
Inman has been fortunate to study with many amazing dance artists from ballet to belly dancing including: Suzanne Farrell, Balanchine’s “muse”, Gerri Houlihan, ADF’s red-headed “fire ball”, Virginia, founder of the Coalition Of Middle Eastern Dance Artists, as well as many others. She has attended the Aerial Dance Festival in Boulder, CO where she studied with Terry Sendgraff, pioneer of Aerial Dance and the low-flying trapeze. Inman was recently certified in Celeste Miller’s “Curriculum in Motion” and employs Miller’s concepts throughout her teaching and choreography. Inman’s love of dance education has enabled her to teach in a range of venues: American College Dance Festival, Florida Dance Educators Conference, the Alabama Dance Festival, the South Carolina Dance Festival, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Booker Visual and Performing Arts High School and Blake Magnet High School. She is the proud mother of two wonderful daughters and partner to a most supportive husband.
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