Gavin Webber fell into dance relatively late, after years spent hitch-hiking, skiing, writing, camping and studying English, Anthropology and Classical Studies. He joined Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre in 1993. He left in 1998 to drive a Kombi van around Europe and Morroco before running out of money and taking a job with Wim Vandekeybus and Ultima Vez in Belgium. He spent three years with the company and was involved in the creation of "In Spite of Wishing and Wanting" and "Inasmuch as Life is Borrowed".
Gavin returned to Australia in 2001 and began teaching and choreographing. Together with other former Meryl Tankard dancers he formed Splintergroup in 2003, working in Brisbane and Berlin. They created two works, "lawn" and "roadkill", which won 6 Greenroom awards in Australia in 2010. From 2005 to 2009 Gavin Webber was the Artistic Director of Dancenorth. Gavin’s work has toured throughout Australia, Asia, Europe and Canada. Most recently he has performed again with Ultima Vez in "Nieuwzwart", choreographed for Stalker and Perth Theatre Company, created a bar brawl for Berlin film maker, Julian Rosefeldt and worked with PVC in Freiburg. He created "Rock Show" with Australian rock band Regurgitator, "Food Chain" with Grayson Millwood, and his latest work, "Little Pig", produced by PVC, performed in Germany in 2010. He is currently living and working in Freiburg, Germany and establishing a new company with Grayson Millwood and other artists combining work in Australia and overseas.