Lonnie Weeks

Biography

Born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Lonnie Weeks trained at Faubourg School of Ballet, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, and Texas Ballet Theater School. He danced with Texas Ballet Theater before joining San Francisco Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2010 and was promoted to soloist in 2018. 

Snapshot
  • BORN 

Los Alamos, New Mexico 

  • TRAINING 

Faubourg School of Ballet 

Ruth Page Center for the Arts 

Texas Ballet Theater School 

  • SAN FRANCISCO BALLET 

Joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in 2010 

Promoted to soloist in 2018 

  • OTHER COMPANIES 

Texas Ballet Theater 

Repertoire - SF Ballet
  • BALANCHINE 

Coppélia (Villagers, War and Discord Corps) 

Diamonds 

Divertimento No. 15 (Theme) 

The Four Temperaments (Melancholic) 

Prodigal Son 

Rubies 

Stravinsky Violin Concerto 

Scotch Symphony (Demi-Soloist)  

Symphony in C 

Symphony in Three Movements 

Theme and Variations 

  • BLANC 

Gateway to the Sun (Principal) 

  • BREINER 

The Queen’s Daughter (The Executioners) 

  • CANIPAROLI

Emergence 

  • CRANKO 

Onegin (Lensky, Corps) 

  • FOKINE 

Petrouchka 

  • FORSYTHE 

Artifact Suite 

  • LANDER

Etudes (excerpt) | (Gentlemen) 

  • LIFAR

Suite en Blanc (Pas de cinq) 

  • MACMILLAN 

Winter Dreams 

  • MARSTON 

Mrs. Robinson (Benjamin Braddock) 

  • MCGREGOR

Borderlands (originated) 

Chroma 

  • MCINTYRE 

The Big Hunger (Principal) 

Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem (originated) 

  • MORRIS

Beaux 

Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes 

Sandpaper Ballet (Ensemble) 

  • NEUMEIER

The Little Mermaid (Naval Officer) 

  • NUREYEV

Raymonda—Act III 

  • PAGE 

Guide to Strange Places 

  • PECK 

Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes (3 Soloist Men, Corps) 

  • PITA 

Salome (Hostages) 

  • POSSOKHOV

Fusion 

Magrittomania 

The Rite of Spring 

Swimmer 

  • RATMANSKY

Le Carnaval des Animaux (Cockerel, Jockey) 

Symphony #9 in Shostakovich Trilogy (Angel) 

  • RHODEN 

LET’S BEGIN AT THE END (originated) 

  • ROBBINS

The Cage (1st Intruder) 

Glass Pieces 

  • ROWE 

MADCAP (The Juggled) 

  • SCARLETT 

Fearful Symmetries 

Frankenstein 

  • THATCHER 

Manifesto 

  • TOMASSON

7 for Eight  

Concerto Grosso (Principals) 

Criss-Cross  

Don Quixote (Toreadors, Seguidilla) 

The Fifth Season 

Giselle (Peasants, Peasant Pas de cinq) 

Harmony 

Nutcracker (Party Guests, Jack-in-the-Box, King of the Snow, Spanish, Chinese, Russian) 

On a Theme of Paganini 

Prism 

Romeo & Juliet (Mercutio, Acrobats, Capulet Men, Citizens of Verona) 

The Sleeping Beauty (Pas de six/Cavaliers, Bluebird) 

Swan Lake (Aristocrat, Peasants, Spanish, Czardas Corps, Neapolitan) 

Trio 

  • WELCH 

Bespoke (originated) 

  • WHEELDON

Bound To (originated) 

Cinderella (Spirit of Summer/Generosity Soloist, Autumn Principal, Courtiers, Corps) 

Finale Finale 

Number Nine 

Within the Golden Hour 

Repertoire - other companies
  • BOURNONVILLE 

Flower Festival (Pas de deux) 

in Genzano 

La Sylphide (Pas de deux) 

  • STEVENSON 

Alice in Wonderland 

Bartók  

Cinderella  

Cleopatra  

Coppélia  

Dracula  

Endangered Species  

The Nutcracker  

Romeo and Juliet  

Swan Lake  

The Sleeping Beauty  

Honors
  • Silver medalist at the Helsinki International Ballet Competition, June 2009. 
  • Bronze medalist at the Shanghai International Ballet Competition, August 2007. 
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