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16TH Season PR

The body never lies and Sarasota Contemporary Dance uses every part of the dancer to reveal the truth through movement based expression.

This studio founded by Leymis Bolaños Wilmott and Rachael M. Inman has been breaking artistic ground and delivering cutting edge dance to our community for over 17 years...

Review: An eloquent, wrenching, tribute in Sarasota Contemporary Dance's 'Cuban Project'

Leymis Bolaños Wilmott, the artistic director of Sarasota Contemporary Dance, grew up in Miami’s Hialeah neighborhood surrounded by the music, dance and fierce love of her tight-knit Cuban-American family...

Sarasota Contemporary Dance taps Cuban American history for world premiere

In the early ’60s, as Fidel Castro took control of the Cuban educational system, parents fearful of the indoctrination of their children and the loss of their authority asked the United States for help. They were willing to consider the unthinkable –

Sarasota Contemporary Dance turns trauma into triumph

Leymis Bolaños Wilmott is no stranger to telling stories through dance. But she’s never told one that strikes so close to home...

SCD offers eclectic program of new and recent works

Sarasota Contemporary Dance is highlighting new and recent works by guest choreographers from around the country for its annual showcase, “Dance Makers” next weekend...

Sarasota Contemporary Dance hits lively steps in Duke Ellington jazz collaboration

Let’s say you haven’t been to a live performance since the coronavirus pandemic began. After such a long and challenging hiatus, you’re a bit wary about entering a crowded theater, you find it difficult to sit still for long stretches and you’re drawn to entertainment that’s cheery, lively and not too taxing on the intellect...

Voices – Rising Choreographers Kicks Off SCD’s 16th Season

Rising Choreographers will showcase a variety of works from SCD Company Members and guest artists, selected by Artistic Director Leymis Bolaños Wilmott during SCD’s 2021 Summer Intensives. The chosen works in Voices – Rising Choreographers not only showcase the strength, charm, and diversity of the company, but also to fulfill SCD’s mission of presenting a range of high-caliber contemporary dance for its audience.

Sarasota Contemporary Dance displays ‘GRIT’ in 16th season

Performers in the Sarasota Contemporary Dance company showed off a lot more flexibility than expected during their Quinceanera-themed 15th anniversary season, which required frequent adjustments to what was presented and how due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions...

SRQ Magazine: Season Preview

After a year of postponements, cancellations, experiments and half-measures, Sarasota's arts and culture scene rebounds with a season full of world premieres, big ideas and joyous reunions of old friends..

Featured Press

Local cellist Natalie Helm will be presenting her three-part performance of Bach Immersion as part of SCD’s In-Studio Performance Series

SCD’s next In-Studio Performance is approaching, and it is thrilled to host the incredible local cellist Natalie Helm. Natalie is a Principal Cellist of the Sarasota Orchestra, who has been praised as having a sound that “catches the attention of the room” and “leaves a lasting impression.”

Sarasota Contemporary Dance Hosts Videography Course for Local Students

Even before the pandemic, the video production industry had the feel of the Wild West—burgeoning, full of possibility and with plenty of gold to go around. Reminiscent of the early days of the internet boom, video production represents one of the few industries where a lucrative career can be made with a small portfolio of work and a dash of formal training...

Greater Sarasota PBS Special: Trusting In The Movement

How does a pandemic that prohibits proximity affect an art form whose very essence relies upon the intimacy of breath and body? Go behind the scenes with Sarasota Contemporary Dance for their second post-lockdown show.

Mover and Shaker: A retrospective of Leymis Bolanos Wilmott and the path to Sarasota Contemporary Dance's quinceanera.

On a grainy VHS tape recently rediscovered in Miami, a young Leymis Bolaños Wilmott shows early signs of a career in dance. In the video, Wilmott arranges and choreographs her sisters and cousins, keeping them all in time and making sure they really sell the performance. “It’s a videotape of me dancing to Michael Jackson at a birthday party,” she says...