Gareth Haw

Birthplace
Cardiff, Wales

Age began dancing
Six years old

Training
The Royal Ballet Lower and Upper School

Previous company
Semperoper Ballett Dresden, 2015 – 2023 (First Soloist since 2022)

Favourite role
Solor in La Bayadere

Repertoire includes
Principal roles in Swan Lake, La Bayadere and Sleeping Beauty (Watkin); The Nutcracker (Watkin, Beechey); Giselle (Dawson). Soloist roles in Theme and Variations, Symphony in C, Four Temperaments (Balanchine); The Second Detail, Artifact, New Suite (Forsythe); Errand into the Maze (Graham); Walking Mad, Carmen (Inger); Iphigenia auf Tauris (Bausch); The Dream (Ashton); Heatscape (Peck); COW (Ekman). 

Created roles include
Paris in Romeo and Juliet (Dawson); Winter Principal Couple in The Four Seasons (Dawson)

Career highlight
Debuting In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated on the Paris Opera Palais Garnier stage