A+E INSIDE: <SKEPTIC: The Urbanite peers into the paranormal in the Rosa Fernandez play ‘A Skeptic and a Bruja.’ 7
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INTO THE WOODS: Children First’s Fairytale Ball returns with a verdant theme at Michael’s On East. 8
ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT APRIL 14, 2022
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CORAZÓN
CUBANO
“Cuban Project: Historias” explores the heartbreak Cuban families went through at the beginning of the Castro regime to give their children a better life.
For her next performance, Leymis Bolaños Wilmott chose a weighty personal topic: the exodus of thousands of children from Cuba during Fidel Castro’s regime. SPENCER FORDIN A+E EDITOR
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Members of Sarasota Contemporary Dance laugh in a scene that shows the love and good times of Cuban families before the crisis.
eymis Bolaños Wilmott is no stranger to telling stories through dance. But she’s never told one that strikes so close to home. Bolaños Wilmott, the artistic director of the Sarasota Contemporary Dance troupe, has taken on the formidable task of conveying her family history — and that of countless other Cuban-Americans — in her latest endeavor entitled “Cuban Project: Historias.” SEE CORAZÓN, PAGE 2