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.

Griset Damas-Roche is a Cuban-born professional dancer, choreographer, and educator with more than 35 years of experience in the performing arts. A graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba, she specializes in ballet and Spanish dance, including flamenco, Escuela Bolera, danza estilizada, and castanets. She performed for more than six years as a soloist with Ballet Español de La Habana.

Griset founded her own school in Bogotá, “Griset Damas Escuela de Flamenco”, where she trained more than 3,500 students and collaborated with renowned symphony orchestras and theaters, both as a soloist and with her company, Caña Flamenca. She has taught in Cuba, Colombia, and the United States.

Every summer, Griset continues her professional training in Spain and at Festival Flamenco Albuquerque in New Mexico, the most important flamenco festival in the United States. Believing that dance is a lifelong journey, she continues to study with other master teachers, always seeking to grow as an artist and educator.

Hannah McGuffey (Columbus, OH) is in her first season at Inpulse Dance Co. as a company artist. She graduated from Wright State University in 2026 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, where she performed in the Spring Dance Concert and Arts Gala, and choreographed and performed in the Emerging Choreographers and Fall Dance Concerts. Her training includes the American Dance Festival, Stivers School for the Arts, Gem City Ballet, Dayton Ballet, and a season with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company’s Second Company (DCDC2). She has performed works by Ray Mercer, Ashley Pabst, Gina Walther, Shonna Hickman-Matlock, DeShona Pepper Robertson, Autumn Eckman, Stephanie Martinez, and Barbara Pontecorvo. Alongside her performing career, Hannah has developed a passion for teaching, with experience at Wright State University, Stivers School for the Arts, and through workshops. She is eager to bring her artistry and dedication to New Albany Ballet Company, inspiring the next generation of dancers!

Anya is originally from Cincinnati, OH and trained at Le Jeune Dance with Steve Beirens and Hannah Dorfmueller. She received her BFA in Dance from The Ohio State University and graduated Summa Cum Laude with Distinction in Dance. During her time there, she worked with Eddie Taketa, Momar Ndaiye, Dante Puleio, and Valarie Williams. Additionally, she studied in Denmark and Germany at various institutions, performing work by Daniel Roberts and Crystal Michelle Perkins. She is certified in Progressing Ballet Technique and continues to freelance at dance festivals across the US. Anya is thrilled to be joining the NABC community and share her love for dance.

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.