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Debbie Parou - Artistic Director
Debbie Parou is the artistic director of New Castle Regional Ballet. Debbie founded the New Castle Parou Ballet Company 20 years ago as a non-profit organization to promote quality ballet training and to present performances for the New Castle area. Under her direction, the company became a member of Regional Dance America/Northeast in 1990 as a full performing accredited company. She has owned and operated Menichino School for Dance for 33 years along with the Parou Ballet School.
Her students have been accepted to summer intensives at the Boston Ballet, Cleveland Ballet, and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, to name a few. Her dancers have also received scholarships to the Julliard School for Fine Arts in New York City; Butler University’s Jordan School for Fine Arts; Indianapolis, Indiana University’s dance program in Bloomington; and the Duquesne University Tamburitzans.
Ms. Parou began her formal ballet training in New York and continued to study with Maggie Carlson (Cleveland Ballet), Gilbert Reed (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), Van Curas (Chicago Ballet), The Pittsburgh Theatre, Enid Richardson (Ballet Detroit), and Mansur Kamaletdinov (Bolshoi Ballet). In 1980, Ms. Parou was the only recipient in America of the Cecchetti Council of American Bellet Scholoarship for the continued study of ballet. She has served as treasurer for Regional Dance America/Northeast for four years.
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| Megan Trambley - Guest Instructor
Megan trained with the Lake Erie Ballet School, under the direction of Sharon Filone, and at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School. She danced with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre for 6 seasons where she performed such roles as the Spring Fairy in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella, Elegy in George Balanchine’s Serenade, and the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. She also enjoyed performing contemporary works such as The Rite of Spring and Kevin O’Day’s STING/ing Situations. Megan also participated in choreographic and fundraising projects such as The Move and The Dancer’s Trust. Ms. Trambley is on the summer faculty for the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. This is Ms. Trambley’s fourth season with the Erie Dance Conservatory, and she also serves as the Rehearsal Director for the Company. Megan is currently on the faculty teaching ballet and pointe for the New Castle Regional Ballet.
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| Lucia Doneluck - Instructor
Lucia teaches pilates and aerobic classes to the advanced Ballet Students at the Menichino School for Dance. Lucia taught all types of aerobic classes and is a certified Pilates teacher. She taught the past 20 years at the Studio Fitness Center in New Castle.
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| Lori Scheidemantle - Instructor
Lori is an instructor at the Menichino School for Dance in Creative Movement, Preschool I and Ballet I. She was a member of the Parou Ballet company until 1985. She is an assistant for the New Castle Regional Ballet's annual performance of the Nutcracker.
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