Gavin is from Motherwell in Scotland and trained at The Dance
School of Scotland and English National Ballet School. Alongside
his studies, he worked part-time with the Dance School at the Royal Academy of Dance

Gavin joined Northern Ballet upon graduation in 2014 and in 2020
was promoted to Junior Soloist.
He has danced several leading roles including Acolyte in Jean-Christophe Malliot’s Romeo and Juliet; St. John in Cathy Marston’s Jane Eyre; Athos in The Three Musketeers and Tom in The Great Gatsby by David Nixon CBE.

In 2019 he was commissioned to create a short film for Northern
Ballet’s Digital Platform, Silenced, which went on to win Best Dance
Short at the New Renaissance Film Festival in London.
In 2021, his first children’s ballet, Pinocchio, premiered for Northern Ballet in Leeds before a substantial national tour. More recently, he has choreographed work for Images Company, Elmhurst Ballet School and a full-length Snow White for London Children’s Ballet at the Peacock Theatre.


Gavin’s coaching experience has found him leading classes and

workshops for Elmhurst Ballet School, Northern Ballet, Royal Academy of Dance, Scottish

Ballet’s Associate Programme, The Ballet Retreat, London Studio

Centre and Conservatorio de Dance do Vale do Sousa in Portugal.