Pennsylvania Ballet

Lorin Mathis, a native of Minneapolis, Minnestoa, began his training at Ballet Arts Minnesota before attending North Carolina School of the Arts and San Francisco Ballet School as well as summer intensives at Pacific Northwest Ballet and San Francisco Ballet.
 
Mr. Mathis joined San Francisco Ballet for a season as a Corps de Ballet member before joining Alberta Ballet in 2001.  While at Alberta Ballet, Mr. Mathis performed principal roles in George Balanchine’s Who Cares?, Allegro Brilliante and Divertimento #15 as well as Oberon in Christopher Wheeldon’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
 
In 2005, he joined Boston Ballet as a Corp de Ballet member and was promoted to Demi-Soloist in 2010.  He performed George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments (Third Theme) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tatiana’s Cavalier) as well as Jiri Kylian’s No More Play, Serebande, Petite Mort and Sechs Tanze.  He also performed Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia.
 
Mr. Mathis joined the Corps de Ballet of Pennsylvania Ballet for the 2011-2012 Season.  His featured roles include Alexei Ratmansky’s Jeu de Cartes, Hot Chocolate Principal in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™ as well as Lead Pirate in Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan.