Minou Lallemand was born in Colombia, South America 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. Minou has danced with companies such as Ballet Arizona, Garden Sate Ballet, Princeton Ballet, Eglevsky Ballet, Connecticut Ballet, Ballet Chicago, Ballet Hawaii and Sacramento Ballet. 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, and First Friday at The Hawaii State Art Museum. She was also selected to participate in Regional Dance America’s Craft of Choreography Conference in 2006. Minou is the artistic director and founder of the Onium Ballet Project, 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, and Bohuslav Martinu’s La Revue de Cuisine. Minou also teaches ballet at Ballet Hawaii, Queen Emma Ballet, Punahou School and at The Nix Performing Arts Center.