Leymis Wilmott
Leymis Bolaños Wilmott is Co-Founder/Artistic Director of Fuzión Dance Artists, which has been hailed as Sarasota’s first contemporary dance company. She 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 served as the Academic Program Coordinator for Florida State 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. In addition to New College, she is an Adjunct Professor of Dance at Booker High School 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.
Ms. Wilmott served as the Academic Program Coordinator for Florida State 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. In addition to New College, she is an Adjunct Professor of Dance at Booker High School 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.
