Originally from Northern California, Lucy Dillon is a dance artist, choreographer, and teacher. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance from UC Irvine where she trained with Sheron Wray, Lar Lubovitch, Chad Michael Hall, and Charlotte Griffin. She has performed professionally with Malashock Dance Company in San Diego, Polaris Dance Theater in Portland, OR, and Call It Art in San Francisco. While in the Bay Area, she choreographed and performed with the multidisciplinary, collaborative performance group The Collective SF. Lucy has been an artist-in-residence at Levy Dance, Iowa Choreography Festival, and SAFEhouse Arts. She has shown her work in festivals such as Broad Statements, Ohio Dance Festival, and PUSHfest Global to name a few. In 2022, Lucy moved to Columbus, OH to pursue her MFA in Dance at The Ohio State University. While at OSU, her choreography has been selected for American College Dance Association’s Midwest Regional Conference, Culminations Concert, and for the installation gallery Urban Arts Space. In 2024, she participated in the ATLAS choreographic training program at ImPulsTanz, Vienna’s International Dance Festival. Lucy is a passionate teacher and is thrilled to join the community of New Albany Ballet Company.

Analiese began her formal dance training at Philadelphia Dance Theatre under the direction of Joy Delaney-Capponi. Through PDT and its various performances and outreach opportunities, she found not only a love for dance, but a deep appreciation for the power of the arts to deeply engage with the community. Analiese attended The Harid Conservatory, Houston Ballet, and the National Ballet School of Canada, all on full tuition scholarship. With the National Ballet of School of Canada under the direction of Mavis Staines she trained with Richard Smith, Deborah Hess, and Vera Timashova and had the opportunity to perform works by Peggy Baker and James Kudelka. She has also attended The American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, and Regional Dance America’s National Choreographic Intensive. Ms Capponi was awarded “Outstanding Performer” at the 2015 Regional Dance America Festival for her performance in Ruka White’s ‘Flock’. Since 2020 Analiese has been performing, teaching, dance modeling, and working as a freelance artist. She has earned certifications in Progressing Ballet Technique and CPYB’s Teacher Training. In 2024-2025 Ms Capponi spent her season with Dayton Ballet, under the Direction of Brandon Ragland. She performed in Robert Curran’s ‘Coppelia’, Brandon Raglands new rendition of ‘The Nutcracker’ as well as his ‘Cinderella’. Through Dayton Ballet, Analiese also completed outreach performances in local schools to help bring ballet to children. It is opportunities such as that as well as teaching dance, which bring her the most joy.

Madeline Miller began dancing at her mother’s studio, the New Albany Ballet Company, at the age of 3. While at New Albany Ballet Company, she had the opportunity to perform soloist and principal roles, such as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Lilac Fairy in Sleeping Beauty, and a Stepsister in Cinderella. She also performed original works by Jimmy Orrante, Amy Tremante, and Tara Miller, to name a few. She also traveled to New York City for the Youth America Grand Prix finals when she was 11 and 14.

During her summers at New Albany Ballet Company, Madeline traveled to various summer intensives to extend her training. She attended Chautauqua, American Ballet Theatre in New York City and North Carolina, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, BalletMet, and Joffrey in Chicago. Through these summer intensives, she trained with Patricia McBride, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Franco De Vita, Deborah Wingert, and Edwaard Liang.

Currently, Madeline is a senior at Butler University as a Dance-Arts Administration major. She has performed numerous roles with Butler Ballet and has performed pieces by Susan McGuire, Derek Reid, and Ramon Flowers. When she is home for the summer, she continues dancing, on top of being a full-time summer faculty member at New Albany Ballet Company and assisting with the New Albany Children’s Ballet Theatre’s Nutcracker. She is expected to graduate in Spring of 2025 with the hopes of becoming a full-time dance teacher.

Alyssa grew up in New Abany, OH, training in the pre-professional program here at NABC. She was accepted into The Ohio State University’s Department of Dance, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2012. During her time there, she trained with and performed contemporary works by Susan Hadley, Melanie Bales, d. Sabela Grimes, and Meghan Durham Wall. She also had the opportunity to study in Costa Rica at the Taller Nacional de Danza – Conservatorio El Barco with Jimmy Ortiz.
After graduating, Alyssa taught dance classes while continuing to pursue her passion for education at Otterbein University, where she obtained her teaching license in elementary education for grades PreK-5. Alyssa spent six years as a 4th-grade teacher at Chapelfield Elementary in Gahanna before stepping away to raise her two daughters. She continues to enjoy working with elementary students as a private tutor.
Alyssa is thrilled to return to the NABC faculty this season and is excited to share all that she has learned as both a dancer and educator with her students.

Born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Susan Dromisky is a graduate of The National Ballet School of Canada. She began her professional career with the National Ballet of Canada and became a soloist in 1985. Ms. Dromisky was also a soloist with The English National Ballet in London in 1985 – 1986. Some of her leading roles included Sugar Plum and Snow Queen in The Nutcracker. Swahilda in Erik Bruhn’s Coppelia. Teresina in Peter Schaufuss’ Napoli and Olga in John Cranko’s Onegin.

Ms. Dromisky has worked directly with Rudolph Nureyev, Erik Bruhn, Sir Frederick Ashton, Kenneth  MacMillan, James Kudelka, Peter Schaufuss, Glen Tetley, Natalia Makarova, Gelsey Kirkland, Brian MacDonald, David Allen, John Alleyne, Laura Alonzo, Michael Clark and John McFall.

Ms. Dromisky was a recipient of the Peter Dwyer Scholarship for High Excellence in Dance in 1978. She was also awarded a Canada Council Grant for the Arts in 1979. Upon retiring from the stage, she was a full-time artistic faculty member with the National Ballet School of Canada before coming to BalletMet in 1998. Ms. Dromisky was Director of the Trainee Program and the Senior Performance Ensemble before being named Rehearsal Director in 2014. She will have been with BalletMet for 25 years before joining NABC in July.

Jessica began her dance education in Florida with both Joan Miller’s Palm Beach Ballet Center and Miami City Ballet. After attending the pre professional program at BalletMet Columbus she
began teaching in their academy. Miss Jessica has taught for 15years in both Gahanna and Lewis Center, focusing on early childhood dance education. Her love of preschoolers and having a little dancer of her own then led to the exploration of Mommy and me classes. She’s very excited to bring this program to NABC.

Sarah Webb, a Columbus native, received her training and graduated from BalletMet and went onto dance with BalletMet as a trainee in the company. She spent a year in the Richmond Ballet trainee program then moved to Palm Beach Gardens, Florida to dance with Ballet Palm Beach. Some of her favorite roles include performing the title role in Snow White, Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty, Step-Sister in Cinderella, Helena in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Mercedes from Don Quixote as well as Lady Capulet in Romeo&Juliet.
Sarah is currently dancing with Columbus Dance Theatre.
Over the years Sarah has had the opportunity to teach for multiple ballet studios alongside her dancing career. Whilst living in south Florida she taught ages 3-Adv for the Ballet Palm Beach Academy, In house Expressions, Florida School for Dance Education, South Florida Dance Company and The De George Academy at The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. Sarah spent a Summer back at her home studio teaching for the BalletMet Jr. intensive, along with the De Geroge academy summer launch back in Florida.
Sarah is very excited to be joining New Albany Ballet Company for her first full year.

Ruth began studying ballet in Columbus, Ohio at Charisma Centre for the Arts. She continued her movement education by adding various styles such as jazz, modern, and tumbling. Ruth was accepted into the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University where she studied under renowned faculty. She performed in student pieces and faculty works by Susan Hadley, Michael Kelly Bruce, and Eddie Taketa. Her research and areas of study focused around dance education where she gained knowledge and experience working with diverse ages and populations.
In 2016, she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Dance. Ruth has taught in central Ohio for 7 years and is excited to join the team at New Albany Ballet Co. She hopes to inspire children to love movement and grow in technical excellence.

Bethany Lee was born and raised in Charlotte, NC. Her training began at an early age at the Charlotte City Ballet Company under the direction of Melissa Hale-Coyle and Lisa Leone. Upon graduating in 2003, Bethany continued her training at The Houston Ballet where she was apart of Houston Ballet II on full scholarship. In the spring of 2005, she joined BalletMet and danced for the company for eleven seasons. In June 2010, Bethany had the opportunity to perform with BalletMet in Russia at the Moscow International Contemporary Festival. In past seasons some of her favorite principal roles she performed were, The Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Lucy in David Nixon’s Dracula, The Afternoon of a Faun by Amadeo Amodio, Dwight Rhoden’s Carmina Burana, the principal in Summer from James Kudelka’s Four Seasons, as well as the role of Daisy in Jimmy Orrante’s The Great Gatsby. December 2016 she retired from the company and is excited to begin her teaching career. Her husband and her gave birth to a beautiful daughter, Sienna Nicole Lee on January 22, 2016. She looks forward to being a mother as well as having the opportunity to teach young students, challenging them and giving them all the wisdom that she has learned throughout her career.

Karen Mitchell was born and raised In Columbus, Ohio and began dancing at the tender age of 3. She continued dancing until graduating from High School. She has trained in Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Contemporary, Lyrical, Tumbling and Hip Hop. She has been teaching for the last 10 years for students 3 years of age to adults.
She has performed as a member of the American Dance Team and traveled to Barcelona, Spain to compete for the World Cup. She also was an instructor with the well known Americheer dance program, AmeriDance. She truly loves the art of dance and inspires to share that love with as many students as possible, young or old. Karen will be teaching Hip Hop for the New Albany Ballet Company starting in the summer of 2017.