Raised in Dayton, Ohio, Avalou trained in a pre-professional company, Gem City Ballet. During her senior year, Avalou demonstrated and assisted in the school and was selected by the Board to choreograph a 10 minute piece on the company. In December 2019, Avalou graduated with her BFA summa cum laude, majoring in Ballet, from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, under Qi Jiang and Deirdre Carberry. Avalou performed lead roles in Petipa’s Paquita (Paquita) and in La Bayadere (Shade #2). Her Ballet Major curriculum included pedagogy, dance history, rudiments of music, choreography, along with many other courses. During her sophomore year at CCM, Avalou was accepted into BalletMet’s trainee program, with Edwaard Liang and Maria Torija. As a trainee, Avalou danced in Balanchine’s Serenade, Liang’s Don Quixote, and performed in numerous outreaches with BalletMet’s Second Company. During the summers at BalletMet, Avalou was an assistant in their Junior Intensive and demonstrated and gave corrections. In 2020, she joined Fort Wayne Ballet and has enjoyed dancing in Gerald Arpino’s Light Rain and Italian Suite, Edward Stierle’s Concerto Con Brio, Agnes de Mille’s Three Virgins and a Devil, and Petipa’s Sleeping Beauty as the Diamond Fairy and Little Red. Avalou received her ABT® NTC certification for Pre-Primary-Level 3 in July of 2021 and has been teaching in the Auer Academy for 3 years. She received her Affiliate Teacher status from ABT® in 2024. Avalou is also the Youth Company Assistant and has choreographed numerous times since she started this position in 2023. Avalou is ecstatic to continue teaching in the Auer Academy for a fourth year.

Avalou is an ABT® Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum.