Join us in Doncaster at CAST on Saturday 29 March 2025 for a Masterclass with former Northern Ballet Soloist Gavin McCaig.
This is an exciting opportunity for young dancers to practice creative and technical skills in a fun and professional environment and offers an insight into the training we offer at Northern Ballet.
Masterclasses will take place at Doncaster CAST.
Masterclass 1, Ages 9-12
- Saturday 29th March 2025, 1.30-3.00pm
- For students aged 9-12 with at least 2 years' experience
- Cost: £19.50
What to expect on the day?
Expect an engaging ballet lesson that will help to develop your technique, artistry and performance skills.
Please wear suitable dancewear and ballet shoes.
Masterclass 2
- Saturday 29 March 2025, 3.15-4.30pm
- For Spotted! Students by invitation only
- Cost: It’s free!
What to expect on the day?
Expect a fun and engaging ballet lesson that will introduce you to the fundamentals of ballet. Please wear comfortable PE style clothes if you don’t have dancewear.
Gavin McCaig
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 Northern Ballet, Royal Academy of Dance, Scottish Ballet’s Associate Programme, The Ballet Retreat, London Studio Centre, Moorland International Ballet Academy and Conservatorio de Dance do Vale do Sousa in Portugal.
Gavin sits on the board of Yorkshire Dance as the Chair of the Finance and HR Subcommittee and is a former Director of London Vocational Ballet School. Gavin is now Chief Operating Officer of Fundamentally Dance.
Header image by Colleen Mair, Gavin McCaig portrait by Emily Nuttall.