Gareth Haw

Birthplace
Cardiff, Wales

Age began dancing
Six years old

Training
The Royal Ballet Lower and Upper School

English National Ballet

Joined 2023, promoted to Principal 2024.

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

Favourite role
Solor in La Bayadere

Repertoire includes
Principal roles in Swan Lake (Watkin, Deane), 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