Lucien Postlewaite is from Santa Cruz, California. He trained on scholarship at the School of American Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. While a Professional Division student at PNB School, he received a Level II Award for ballet in the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts’ 2003 Arts Recognition and Talent Search. Mr. Postlewaite was a 2008 recipient of a Princess Grace Award. In 2012, Mr. Postlewaite joined Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, and in 2017, he re-joined to PNB as a principal dancer.
While at Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Mr. Postlewaite performed leading roles in Forsythe’s New Sleep; Kylian’s Bella Figura and Gods and Dogs; and Maillot’s Altro Canto, La Belle, Cendrillon, Faust, LAC, Scheherazade, and Vers un Pays Sage. He originated leading roles in Pontus Lidberg’s Summer’s Winter Shadow and Maillot’s Casse-Noisette Compagnie, Choré, and Entrelacs.
Mr. Postlewaite has performed as a guest artist with New York City Ballet on seventy-fifth anniversary gala for the School of American Ballet. He is featured in the film Casse-Noisette Compagnie by Jean-Christophe Maillot. In 2019, Mr. Postlewaite was invited by the Fire Island Dance Festival to organize a commission for its annual gala (Garrett Smith’s Continuum). In addition to performing on galas worldwide, Mr. Postlewaite has performed Petipa’s Paquita and Wevers’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Reiko Yamamoto Ballet Company in Japan, and Balanchine’s Tarantella with Los Angeles Ballet. He is an original member of Olivier Wevers’ Whim W’Him.
In 2021, he choreographed this is US, now for PNB’s NEXT STEP.
Agon // George Balanchine
Apollo // George Balanchine
Duo Concertant // George Balanchine
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®
The Four Temperaments // George Balanchine
Jewels // George Balanchine
Emeralds
Rubies
A Midsummer Night’s Dream // George Balanchine
Prodigal Son // George Balanchine
Serenade // George Balanchine
La Sonnambula // George Balanchine
Square Dance // George Balanchine
Symphony in C // George Balanchine
Symphony in Three Movements // George Balanchine
Theme and Variations // George Balanchine
La Valse // George Balanchine
Giselle // Peter Boal
Albrecht
The Bridge // Val Caniparoli
Torque // Val Caniparoli
Little mortal jump // Alejandro Cerrudo
One Thousand Pieces // Alejandro Cerrudo
PACOPEPEPLUTO // Alejandro Cerrudo
Silent Ghost // Alejandro Cerrudo
A Dark and Lonely Space // Kyle Davis
A Million Kisses to my Skin // David Dawson
Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven // Ulysses Dove
Red Angels // Ulysses Dove
Serious Pleasures // Ulysses Dove
Jardí Tancat // Nacho Duato
In the middle… somewhat elevated // William Forsythe
One Flat Thing, reproduced // William Forsythe
The Merry Widow // Ronald Hynd
Camille
The Sleeping Beauty // Ronald Hynd
Prince Florimund, Gold and Silver pas de trois
Petite Mort // Jiří Kylián
The Moor’s Pavane // José Limón
Roméo et Juliette // Jean-Christophe Maillot
Roméo
A Garden // Mark Morris
Pacific // Mark Morris
Cylindrical Shadows // Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
In the Countenance of Kings // Justin Peck
The Times Are Racing // Justin Peck
Year of the Rabbit // Justin Peck
Wash of Gray // Miles Pertl
Emergence // Crystal Pite
Plot Point // Crystal Pite
The Seasons’ Canon // Crystal Pite
Concerto DSCH // Alexei Ratmansky
Don Quixote // Alexei Ratmansky
Basilio
The Concert (or, The Perils of Everybody) // Jerome Robbins
Dances at a Gathering // Jerome Robbins
Glass Pieces // Jerome Robbins
In the Night // Jerome Robbins
West Side Story Suite // Jerome Robbins
Riff, Tony
Carmina Burana // Kent Stowell
Cinderella // Kent Stowell
Prince, Harlequin
Nutcracker // Kent Stowell
Prince
Swan Lake // Kent Stowell
Prince Siegfried
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet // Kent Stowell
TAKE FIVE…More or less // Susan Stroman
Ancient Airs and Dances // Richard Tanner
The Rite of Spring // Glen Tetley
Afternoon Ball // Twyla Tharp
In the Upper Room // Twyla Tharp
Waiting at the Station // Twyla Tharp
Waterbaby Bagatelles // Twyla Tharp
After the Rain pas de deux // Christopher Wheeldon
In the Upper Room // Twyla Tharp, Polyphonia // Christopher Wheeldon
The Seasons // Val Caniparoli
Love and Loss // Donald Byrd
Interrupted Pri’si’zh’en // Kiyon Ross
The Piano Dance // Paul Gibson
Sense of Doubt // Paul Gibson
The Personal Element // Alonzo King
Ghost Variations // Jessica Lang
The Veil Between Worlds // Edwaard Liang
Khepri // Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Bacchus // Matthew Neenan
Mating Theory // Victor Quijada
Suspension of Disbelief // Victor Quijada
Wartime Elegy // Alexei Ratmansky
Catching Feelings // Dwight Rhoden
Wonderland // Penny Saunders
F O I L // Eva Stone
Opus 111 // Twyla Tharp
Shindig // Olivier Wevers
Curious Kingdom // Christopher Wheeldon
