DUNCAN LYLE was born in Melbourne, Australia and began his ballet training at Camberwell District Ballet with Janina Ciunovas, Susan Thomson, Toivo Taves and Barbara Nimmo. 

In 2007, he was accepted in to the Royal Ballet School from which he graduated in 2010 before joining Boston Ballet in the same year.

Lyle joined American Ballet Theatre in 2012.  His repertoire with the Company includes The Three Ivans in Aurora’s Wedding;  a Step-Sister in Cinderella; Gamache in Don Quixote; Kaschei in Firebird; Wilfred in Giselle; Standard Bearer in The Green Table; a Stomper in In the Upper Room; St. John Rivers in Jane Eyre; Drosselmeyer, the Mouse King, the Russian Dance, Mr Stahlbaum and Mother Ginger in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker; Ariston and the Commander in Of Love and Rage; Tybalt and Lord Montague in Romeo and Juliet; Prince Fortune in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty; von Rothbart, Lead Czardas, and the Spanish Dance in Swan Lake; Sebastian in The Tempest; and featured roles in After You, Bach Partita, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Dream within a Dream (deferred), and Raymonda Divertissements.

He created Leandre in Ratmansky’s Harlequinade; Ladislav Slivovitz in Whipped Cream; a leading role in AFTERITE; and a featured role in Songs of Bukovina.

In addition to creating works for Duncan Lyle Dance, Duncan has created works for New York Theatre Ballet, CoLab Dance, Intermezzo Dance Company, The Royal Ballet School, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, The Russian Choreographic Academy, and Camberwell District Ballet School.