LYDIA SPANO Company Member, Ballet Magnificat! Omega Lydia Spano, originally from Seattle, Washington, trained for ten years with the Pacific Northwest Ballet School under Bruce Wells, Victoria Poulkenin, and Flemming Halby, and spent one year dancing with the company in their professional division. She later danced as an apprentice with Ballet Austin (Austin, Texas) under Stephen Mills and Michelle Martin. Lydia joined the Ballet Magnificat! Trainee Program in 2002. She was an apprentice with Ballet Magnificat! Alpha Company from August 2004 until August 2006 when she was promoted to a Company Member with Ballet Magnificat! Omega. She is happily married to John Spano.