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Staff
Lois Ellyn |
Lois Ellyn trained with Madame Nijinska and Maestro Celli, toured Europe with The Marquis de Cuevas Ballet and was a noted ballerina for The New York City Ballet under George Balanchine. Additionally, she toured internationally with Mia Slavenska and Frederic Franklin and on the West Coast with Pacific Ballet Theatre, Ballet des Artes, Wenta Ballet and Joey Harris' The Group. In the summer of 2001 she returned to Fukui, Japan with a group of dancers to perform Appalachian Spring. for the past six years, she has been invited to exhibit her choreography at the Orange County Center for the Performing Arts Imagination Celebration. This is the fourth grant that N.C.B. has received from Arts Orange County. She founded Nouveau Chamber Ballet in 1988, and has owned and operated her studio in Fullerton for many years. |
Janice Gilmore |
Janice Gilmore brings a wealth of experience to Nouveau Chamber Ballet. She has trained extensively with Ms. Ellyn as well as Stefan Wenta, Andrei Tremaine, and Michel Panieff. She has performed as a soloist for Dance Theatre of Orange County and Pacific Ballet Theatre. She performed professionally at Disneyland in a variety of roles from Alice in Wonderland to the Can-Can at the Golden Horseshoe Review. She has appeared for the Nouveau Chamber Ballet in Vision d'Art, La Review de Cuisine, Vocalise, and many other roles. She will be familiar to devotees of our Nutcracker as she reprises the roles of The Maid and Russian. She has also performed as Mother Ginger. |
Eric Hines |
Eric Hines graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and from New World School for the Arts in Miami, Florida, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance. He danced professionally with Freddick Bratcher and Company Contemporary Dance Theater. He has choreographed for the Lake Arrowhead Classical Ballet and the Nouveau Chamber Ballet. Eric also studied dance at NYU, the Ailey School, and with such noteable teachers as Rudy Perez and Lois Ellyn.
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Sheree King |
Sheree King was born in Pittsburgh , Pa. and began dance and baton classes at the age of five. She has a M.A. in Dance from UCLA and is an Associate Professor and Director of the Dance Program at Long Beach City College. She is currently on a year long sabbatical to become certified in GYROKINESIS®. She has performed with Rudy Perez, Momentum Dance Company, UCLA Dance Company, and Nouveau Chamber Ballet. Her choreography has been presented in many southern California colleges and universities, at International City Theatre, Orange County Choreographer’s Showcase, the Mark Taper Forum, and Nouveau Chamber Ballet. She is also a certified Pilates instructor which she teaches at LBCC and at her home studio. Sheree enjoys traveling to to all parts of the world with her husband, Tom Bozigian, an internationally renowned teacher and choreographer of Armenian dance. |
 Laura Wegrzyn
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Laura Wegrzyn is a seasoned teacher, has been teaching for over 20 years and brings a wealth of experience to the dance academy. She began her pre-professional ballet training and performing at Dieman and Bennett, the school for Dance Theatre for the Hemispheres in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Laura continued her training in California, earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance at the University of California, Irvine. After graduation, Laura taught, choreographed, and performed professionally with the Lake Arrowhead Classical Ballet Company. There, she performed as a company corps de ballet dancer as well as a soloist, a 6 year tenure that left her with a valuable and pleasant memory and learning experience.
Most recently Laura is pleased to associate with Stela Viorica of the Stella Dance Company and with Lois Ellyn of the Nouveau Chamber Ballet. Laura was invited to teach, perform and choreograph for Newport Mesa Ballet (Stella Dance Academy and Company), and to dance as a guest artist with Nouveau Chamber ballet. |
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