Veronica Lemberger

Veronica received her early training at Orlando Ballet, at the Royal School of Dance, and at the San Francisco Ballet School during the summers. Veronica finished her training as a full-time boarder at the Académie Princesse Grace of Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, in France, with her summers spent studying with teachers from the Paris Opera Ballet at La Salle Pleyel, in Paris. At the Académie, Veronica passed her exams with honors and was selected to be a member of the touring group spotlighting the school in Italy.

In Europe, together with colleagues from the Komische Oper Berlin, she was part of a project to form the first freestanding contemporary ballet company in Berlin at the time, performing as a soloist in works by Tom Schilling, Volker Tietböhl, Mark Bogaerts, Ellys, Joseph Tmim, and others. In the U.S., Veronica performed with Orlando Ballet, Sarasota Ballet, Orlando City Ballet, and Dance Alive, where Kim Tuttle set and created the full-length ballet Mata Hari on her. Veronica appeared in Pointe Magazine for her role as Mata Hari.

Veronica co-founded the Orlando City Ballet with her mother Beatrix de la Roche du Ronzet Aldana, who was its Executive Artistic Director for 13 years. During that time, Orlando City Ballet provided comprehensive training and performing experience for young dancers, hosting faculty such as Xiao Mi Li (Beijing Ballet), Nona Jestovskaya (Vaganova Academy), Luba Gulyaeva(Mariinski Theater), Victoria Rockhill Schneider (Harid Conservatory), and Vol Quitzow (José Limón Dance Company). Veronica acted as guest ballet mistress and teacher at Orlando City Ballet for a decade, helping to set and coach classical repertoire for the company and acting as its Interim Artistic Director. Veronica taught in Berlin in the 1990s, providing ballet class for professionals and students at Marameo, Tanzfabrik, and Danceworks, Berlin (under the direction of Ellys).

Veronica received her BA from Barnard College at Columbia University in New York City and was a Presidential Scholarship student in the MFA program in choreography at Purchase College, SUNY Conservatory of Dance until she decided to pursue studies in psychology. Veronica completed her clinical doctorate in psychoanalysis from the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles and a master’s degree in somatic counseling psychology from Naropa University. She has been in private practice as a psychodynamic and trauma-informed psychotherapist, since 2015. Veronica is interested in the intersection between dreaming, the embodied unconscious, creativity, and perception. She believes in the irreducible humanity and the irreplaceable value of every person. As a psychoanalyst, she focuses on the integration and expansion of the personality, ethics, relationality, mind, body, and spirit.