Lawrence Rines

Lawrence Rines trained at the School of American Ballet and The Rock School for Dance Education. He has attended summer intensives at Ellison Ballet, The Kirov Academy of Ballet, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Miami City Ballet, The School of American Ballet, and The Royal Ballet School.

Rines has performed William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude at the Nantucket Atheneum 10th Anniversary Dance Festival under the direction of Tyler Angle, principal dancer with New York City Ballet. While at SAB, Matthew Renko choreographed a solo on Rines in the inaugural year of the New York Choreographic Institute’s summer session in 2008.

Rines joined Boston Ballet II in 2009 and became an artist with the company in 2011. He was promoted to second soloist in 2017, and to soloist in 2019.