Lallemand to teach, dance in Hilo

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Class fee is $10 at the door. Reservations are not required. For info, call 961-3622 or 959-4064.

Minou Lallemand, artistic director of Honolulu’s Onium Ballet Project, will give a master class for intermediate/advanced ballet students at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Island Dance Academy in Hilo.

Born in Colombia, Lallemand grew up in New York City and graduated from the New York High School of the Performing Arts while on scholarship at the Joffrey Ballet School. She has danced principal and soloist roles with companies such as Ballet Arizona, Garden State 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.

Lallemand teaches ballet at Ballet Hawaii, Queen Emma Ballet, Punahou School and The Nix Performing Arts Center. She is the founder of and principal choreographer for Onium Ballet Project, which will perform a new version of Aaron Copland’s ballet, “Appalachian Spring,” at the University of Hawaii at Hilo Performing Arts Center on Thursday for the Hawaii Concert Society.

Class fee is $10 at the door. Reservations are not required. For info, call 961-3622 or 959-4064.