Aaron Shaw

Aaron Shaw grew up in Australia and moved to Germany in 2011 to complete his training as a dancer. He earned a Master's degree in dance at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim in 2014. In Germany, Aaron Shaw danced in the companies of the Hessisches Staatsballett, the Staatsballett Karlsruhe and the Pfalztheater-Kaiserslautern. There, he danced in works by Damien Jalet, Richard Siegal, Edward Clug, Cayetano Soto, Marco Goecke and Jiří Kylián. Shaw has been dancing with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen since 2018, where he has appeared in world premiering creations such as Palmos by Andonis Foniadakis, Rusalka by Alan Lucien Øyen, C(h)oeurs 2022 by Alain Platel, and he danced in Noetic in a choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

Repertoire at OBV

• L’Oiseau de feu (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
• Als niemand me ziet (Jonas Vlerick)
• Exhibition (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
• Giselle (Akram Khan)
• Boléro (Maurice Béjart)
• Fall (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
• Furioso (Meryl Tankard)
• JOY (Alexander Ekman)
• Bach Studies (Benjamin Millepied)
• Mea Culpa (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
• Rusalka (Alan Lucien Øyen): Vodník*
• RASA [after La Bayadère] (Daniel Proietto)*
• Le Sacre du printemps (Pina Bausch)
• Noetic (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
• Palmos (Andonis Foniadakis)*
• C(h)oeurs 2022 (Alain Platel)*
• Mozart/Concert Arias. Un moto di gioia (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker)
• Tempus Fugit (Johan Inger)*
• Creature (Akram Khan): Major

*originated the role