Minou Lallemand

Minou Lallemand was born in Colombia and grew up in New York City. She trained at
the Neubert Ballet Institute and graduated from the New York High School of the
Performing Arts while on scholarship at the Joffrey Ballet School. She also has a Master
of Fine Arts in choreography from Wilson College.
During her performing career she danced with companies such as Ballet Arizona,
Garden State Ballet, Princeton Ballet, Eglevsky Ballet, Connecticut Ballet, Sacramento
Ballet, Ballet Chicago, and Ballet Hawaii. She toured nationally with The Phantom of the
Opera and was a cast member of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in Mexico City.
Minou has created works for the choreographer’s workshop at Ballet Arizona, New
Choreographer’s on Pointe Workshop, Tau Dance Theatre, Ballet Hawaii,  Queen
Emma Ballet, The Youth America Grand Prix Competition, The Three Phantoms in
Concert, The Virginia School of the Arts, ArtSpree at The Contemporary Art Museum,
The Latin Choreographers Festival in NYC, Hawaii Opera Theatre, and The Hawaii
Symphony.
Minou is the artistic director and founder of the Onium Ballet Project, (now the Onium
Contemporary Ballet) which has regularly collaborated with Chamber Music Hawaii,
creating new original ballets to Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat, Samuel
Barber’s Summer Music, Darius Milhaud’s Creation of the World, Paul Hindemith’s Der
Damon, Bohuslav Martinu’s La Revue de Cuisine, Aaron Copland’s Appalachian
Spring, Sergei Prokofiev’s Trapeze, Miguel del Aguila’s Clocks, Arvo Part’s Fratres for
String Quartet, Osvaldo Golijov’s Lullaby and Doina, and Gabriela Lena
Frank’s Leyendas. One of her most recent works for OCB was All of Water to various
composers. She was a 2025 New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artists
grant recipient for her newest work Solastalgia, presented at the Burchfield Penney Art
Center in Buffalo, NY.
Minou was the artistic director of Queen Emma Ballet and was on faculty at the
University of Hawaii and at Shenandoah University. She was also on faculty at Ballet
Hawaii, Punahou School, and Nix Performing Arts Center. She was a guest
choreographer for the University at Buffalo and taught at the American Academy of
Ballet, Neglia Ballet, Configuration Dance Theater, and Suzanne’s School of Dance
while she was in Buffalo, NY. She now resides in Columbus, OH and is happy to be
joining the faculty at New Albany Ballet Company.