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 inThe 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.