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Loren Walton

Sponsored by Madeleine P. and Harvey R. Plonsker

Ballet West Academy Summer Intensive: 2019
Ballet West Academy Trainee: 2019
Joined Ballet West II: 2020
Joined Ballet West: 2022
Promoted to Demi-Soloist: 2025

Originally from Austin, Texas, Loren Walton moved to Salt Lake City to continue his training at the Ballet West Academy. He joined Ballet West as a Trainee in 2019, was promoted to Ballet West II in 2020, and became a member of the main company in 2022. In 2025, Loren was promoted to Demi Soloist.

Loren has preformed a wide range of repertoire with the company, with highlights including Robbins’ Glass Pieces, Forsythe’s Blake Works I, and Ratmansky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, to name a few. 

When he’s not in the studio, Loren enjoys listening to music, playing the flute, riding horses, hiking, and playing tennis.

Follow Loren on Instagram @thelorenwal.

Click below to see Loren’s roles.

2025-26 Season

  • Romeo & Juliet (Smuin) Benvolio, Paris
  • The Dream (Ashton) Lysander
  • Les Noces (Nijinska) Groom's Friends
  • The Nutrcracker (Christensen) Herr Stahlbaum, Nutcracker Prince, Spanish, Arabian, Waltz of the Flowers

ON TOUR 

  • Light Rain (Arpino) - Arpino Dance Festival, Joyce Theatre, New York City

2024-25 Season

  • Jekyll & Hyde (Caniparoli)
  • Serenade (Balanchine)
  • Within the Golden Hour (Wheeldon)
  • Pictures at an Exhibition (Ratmansky)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen)
  • Cinderella (Ashton)
  • Symphony of Psalms (Kylián)
  • The Rite of Spring (Fonte)
  • Andromeda (Addison) Works from Within (Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City)
  • Lingering Echoes (Fannéy) Works from Within (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake)
  • Mass Hysterical (Adams) Works from Within (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake)

ON TOUR

  • Within the Golden Hour (Wheeldon) - Aspen District Theatre, Aspen, CO

2023-24 Season

  • Dracula (Stevenson)
  • The Firebird (Christensen)
  • Fever Dream (Whitehead)
  • Stars & Stripes (Balanchine)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen)
  • Swan Lake (Sklute, after Petipa and Ivanov)
  • Blake Works I (Forsythe)
  • The Green Table (Jooss)
  • Play on Impulse (Quan) Choreographic Festival VI: Asian Voices (Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City)
  • Somewhere in Time (Fang) Choreographic Festival VI: Asian Voices (Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City)

ON TOUR

  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) - Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.

2022-23 Season

  • Onegin (Cranko)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen)

ON TOUR

  • Galantheae (LaPlane) – Ballet West in the Garden, Red Butte Garden Amphitheater, Salt Lake City, Utah

2021-22 Season

  • Dracula (Stevenson)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen)
  • Romeo + Juliet (Smuin)
  • Glass Pieces (Robbins)

ON TOUR

  • Romeo + Juliet (Smuin) – George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center, Park City, Utah