Born in Camberley, Surrey, Luke Schaufuss trained at the Royal Danish Ballet and is the third generation of the well-known Schaufuss dance dynasty. Luke has performed around the world with the Royal Danish Ballet including at the Paris Opéra, the Kennedy Center in Washington and the New York State Theater. He was selected as the Rising Star of Dance by the Guardian and Observer in 2015. In his spare time he is a model for Established Models London. He joined Birmingham Royal Ballet in November 2013.

REPERTORY INCLUDES
Frederick Ashton:Les Rendezvous, Façade, Dante Sonata, La Fille mal gardée
George Balanchine:Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Theme and Variations
David Bintley:The Prince of the Pagodas, Beauty and the Beast, Sylvia, The King Dances
John Cranko: Card Game
Kenneth MacMillan: Elite Syncopations
Alexander Whitley: Kin.
Peter Wright's production of The Nutcracker and Peter Wright and Galina Samsova's production of Swan Lake

AWARDS
C.F.B Jacobsen Award, Copenhagen, 2010
Award for Exceptional Student The Royal Ballet Summer School, 2011

TELEVISION AND GUEST APPEARANCES
Romeo in Sir Frederick Ashton’s Romeo & Juliet UK tour, 2013
James in La Sylphide at the sixth Bournonville Festival, Biarritz, France, 2014
Blue Bird in the world premiere of Los Angeles Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty, 2015
James in La Sylphide Queensland Ballet, Brisbane, Australia, 2015
James in La Sylphide London Coliseum, 2015
Darcey’s Ballet Heroes, BBC Television, 2015