Lucien
Postlewaite
Lucien Postlewaite (he/him) 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 joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as an apprentice in 2003, was promoted to corps de ballet in 2004, soloist in 2007, and principal in 2008. He 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.
Featured & Leading Roles
George Balanchine
Agon
Apollo
Duo Concertant
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®
(Cavalier)
The Four Temperaments
Emeralds
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Oberon)
Prodigal Son
Rubies
Serenade
La Sonnambula
Square Dance
Symphony in C
Symphony in Three Movements
Theme and Variations
La Valse
Peter Boal
Giselle
(Albrecht)
Val Caniparoli
The Bridge
Torque
Alejandro Cerrudo
Little mortal jump
One Thousand Pieces
PACOPEPEPLUTO
Silent Ghost
Kyle Davis
A Dark and Lonely Space
David Dawson
A Million Kisses to my Skin
Ulysses Dove
Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven
Red Angels
Serious Pleasures
Nacho Duato
Jardí Tancat
William Forsythe
In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated
One Flat Thing, reproduced
Ronald Hynd
The Merry Widow
(Camille)
The Sleeping Beauty
(Prince Florimund, Gold and Silver pas de trois)
Jiří Kylián
Petite Mort
José Limón
The Moor’s Pavane
Jean-Christophe Maillot
Roméo et Juliette
(Romeo)
Mark Morris
A Garden
Pacific
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Cylindrical Shadows
Justin Peck
In the Countenance of Kings
The Times Are Racing
Year of the Rabbit
Miles Pertl
Wash of Gray
Crystal Pite
Emergence
Plot Point
The Seasons’ Canon
Yuri Possokhov
RAkU
(Monk)
Alexei Ratmansky
Concerto DSCH
Don Quixote
(Basilio)
Jerome Robbins
The Concert
Dances at a Gathering
Glass Pieces
In the Night
West Side Story Suite
(Riff, Tony)
Kent Stowell
Carmina Burana
Cinderella
(Prince, Harlequin)
Nutcracker
(Prince)
Swan Lake
(Prince Siegfried)
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Susan Stroman
TAKE FIVE…More or Less
Richard Tanner
Ancient Airs and Dances
Glen Tetley
The Rite of Spring
Twyla Tharp
Afternoon Ball
In the Upper Room
Waiting at the Station
Waterbaby Bagatelles
Christopher Wheeldon
After the Rain pas de deux
Polyphonia
Original Roles
Val Caniparoli
The Seasons
Donald Byrd
Love and Loss
Kiyon Gaines
Interrupted Pri’si’zhen
Paul Gibson
The Piano Dance
Sense of Doubt
Alonzo King
The Personal Element
Jessica Lang
Ghost Variations
Edwaard Liang
The Veil Between Worlds
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Khepri
Matthew Neenan
Bacchus
Victor Quijada
Mating Theory
Suspension of Disbelief
Alexei Ratmansky
Wartime Elegy
Dwight Rhoden
Catching Feelings
Penny Saunders
Wonderland
Eva Stone
F O I L
Twyla Tharp
Opus 111
Olivier Wevers
Shindig
Christopher Wheeldon
Curious Kingdom
