Minou Lallemand
Choreographer/Teacher
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.
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, 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 based in Buffalo, NY) which has regularly collaborated with Chamber Music Hawaii, creating new original ballets to Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histioire 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. Her most recent work and Onium’s first performance in Buffalo was All of Water to various composers.
Minou was the artistic director of Queen Emma Ballet and was on faculty at the University of Hawaii and at Shenandoah University. She now resides in Buffalo, NY. She was recently a guest choreographer for the University at Buffalo and teaches at Neglia Ballet, Configuration Dance Theater, and Suzanne’s School of Dance. She received her Master of Fine Arts in choreography from Wilson College in May 2024.