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 Ballet Arizona, New Choreographer’s on Point Workshop, Tau Dance Theatre, Queen Emma Ballet, 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, Arts at Mark’s Garage, First Friday at The Hawaii State Art Museum, The Latin Choreographers Festival in NYC, Hawaii Opera Theatre, and The Hawaii Symphony. She was also selected to participate in Regional Dance America’s Craft of Choreography Conference.
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.
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 and is currently a guest choreographer for the University at Buffalo and is teaching at Neglia Ballet, Configuration Dance Theater, and Suzanne’s School Dance. She will be receiving her Master of Fine Arts in choreography from Wilson College in May 2024.