The Company
Lois Ellyn founded Nouveau Chamber Ballet in 1988, and has surprised and delighted audiences since. Nouveau Chamber Ballet is a non-profit organization that provides pre-professional and professional dancers with performance and educational opportunities. Aspiring choreographers, composers, artists, and designers work together to provide cultural enrichment to the community through regular performances and education in the arts. The company’s repertoire encompasses traditional ballets, contemporary, and original works. Nouveau Chamber Ballet showcases superior sets, professional costumes, and the dancers’ fine technique. The company frequently collaborates with other artistic groups, including Southland orchestras, ensembles and soloists.
Our School
Founded by Lois Ellyn in 1956, we are the oldest ballet school in Orange County. At Lois Ellyn Ballet Studio, we have dual missions. The first, to provide the highest quality dance instruction to allow students the opportunity to grow and develop into well-rounded, technically strong dancers, and the second, to provide professional performance opportunities in an environment that will nurture growth, discipline, and a love for ballet in every dancer.
Artistic Director
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.