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INCLUSIVE DANCE

SCD + INCLUSIVE DANCE

Sarasota Contemporary Dance offers a variety of inclusive dance and movement modalities for individuals at different stages of life and with diverse abilities.

Our programs include Dance for Parkinson’s, Dance for Joy, Dance for Autism, Breathing in the Spirit, Red Tent, and an ongoing collaborative choreographic process with artists across the country who are pushing the boundaries of dance while overcoming physical and mental challenges.

Artistic Director Leymis Bolaños Wilmott was the first person in Florida to receive a Dance in Healing Certificate (now offered as the Dance in Healthcare Certificate Program) from the University of Florida. In 2014, Sarasota Contemporary Dance was honored with the Arts & Cultural Alliance’s Leadership Award for Arts in Healthcare.

Timeline, by Stephanie Bastos, who dances with the aid of a prosthetic leg, opening her rehearsal to the public for feedback on the work. PC: Barbara Williams Photography
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Leymis Bolaños Wilmott, Artistic Director, and dance colleague Dwayne Scheuneman, co-founder and artistic director of REVolutions Dance (http://www.revdance.org), traveled to Ramallah, in the central West Bank, during June 2014. The directors provided professional development, in the area of dance for special needs, to Sareyyet Ramallah Dance teachers and worked with their students with mixed abilities. The two-week training program ended with a performance.

Choreographer Leymis Bolaños Wilmott was invited, along with the company, to Encuentro de Danza e Integración Latinoamericana (Conference of Physically Integrative Dance) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, representing the United States in September 2015. Long-time friend and guest performer Stephanie Bastos (pictured above) joined Ms. Bolaños Wilmott at the conference.

The international event is hosted by Compañia de Danza Sin Fronteras (Dance Without Borders), a professional dance company based in Argentina that promotes the idea that dancers of all abilities can perform, create, and bring dance beyond the concert stage and into everyday spaces.

“Close Quarters” Choreographed by Leymis Bolaños-WilmottCollaboration with Visual Artist Nathan WilsonPremiered in Voices of Fuzión 2014

“Propel” Choreographed by Leymis Bolaños-Wilmott
Premiered in the 7th Season Concert, March 2013

“Propel” Choreographed by Leymis Bolaños-Wilmott
Premiered in the 7th Season Concert, March 2013

A collaboration between Sarasota Contemporary Dance and Parkinson Place for All Movement Disorders.

Choreographed by Leymis Bolaños Wilmott, with original music by Francis Schwartz and Scott Blum. Performed by participants from both SCD and Parkinson Place.