BRADLEY SHELVER (South Africa) holds his advanced Diplomas in Tap, Jazz and Ballet through the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing in London and attended the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg, He received his South African National Colors in Dance in 1996 and has performed for Nelson Mandela for the presidential awards which led to the commissioning of his ballet "Bitter Love Suite" in 2002.
He has performed with the Alvin Ailey Repertory Company which included the first ever visit of an American dance company in 40 years to Cuba. He has also danced with Elisa Monte Dance, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Ballet Hispanico of New York, Limon Dance Company and Phoenix Dance Theater in the UK.
He has performed as a guest with opera Singer, Jesse Norman at Carnegie Hall in 1999, in the off Broadway Musical, " The making of a Perfect Mate" in 2000, and in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in Nashville.
Mr. Shelver has performed as a Guest Artist with the Lar Lubovich Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Group, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Lustig Dance Theater,The Universal Ballet Company, New Jersey Dance Theater Ensemble, Westchester Ballet, Eglevsky Ballet, Minnesota Ballet Arts, Nathan Trice Dance, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance and the Francesca Harper Project, performing Works by Francesca Harper and William Forsythe.
In 2002, he was invited to perform "The Blackbird Solo" choreographed by Mr. Jiri Kylian for the 70th Anniversary of Jacob’s Pillow Festival in Massachusetts. He also performed works by Angelin Preljocaj and Ohad Naharin for the festival.

Mr. Shelver was Principal dancer and Singer in Javier De Frutos' , "Cattle Call" which has toured around the UK in collaboration with Composer, Richard Thomas.
His Choreographic experience includes works for Cedar Lake 2, The Dance Umbrella festival,Royal Swedish Ballet School, Bartholin International Ballet, Ballet Austin, Lustig Dance Theater, Compania Rio Dança, A commissioned piece by H.R.H Prince Frederick of Denmark and works for the Alvin Ailey School,Long Island University, Purchase Conservatory New Jersey Dance Theater Ensemble, The STEPS Ensemble and for the 2004 and 2005 Elan Awards in New York City. His Solo "Nina" was performed for the Artists of the Millennium Gala in 2004. He has created Solo and Company works which have premiered in Italy, Israel, Germany and Denmark, and has been featured in International gala's as a solo performer including the premier of his solo,"The Guff" for the 16th International Solo Tanz Theater Festival in Stuttgart, Germany in 2012.

He is co-founder and Artistic Director of Bradley Shelver Contemporary Dance Theater founded in 2003, as well as Co-producer and Curator of the Reverb Dance Festival based in NYC.

Mr. Shelver is on the Teaching Faculty of: The Alvin Ailey School (NY), Oure Sport and Performance School School (Denmark), National School of the Arts (South Africa), Drew University (New Jersey Dance Theater Ensemble) STEPS on Broadway (NYC), Estemporada Academy ( Italy), Labart School ( Napoli), Ials ( Rome), Blich (Israel), London Contemporary Dance School, Millennium School ( London) MAS Academy ( Milan) as well as conducting master classes and workshops throughout the US, Europe , South America, Israel and Africa. He has taught as company teacher for Matthew Bourne's 'New Adventures in Motion Pictures' and Phoenix Dance Theater (UK).
He has Taught as a master teacher for the Ateballeto Festival in Italy, and the Bartholin Ballet festival at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mr. Shelver has acted on the Advisory board for Dance Spirit Magazine, for which he has written monthly articles, and has been featured in VOGUE, ELLE, GQ, IN SHAPE and SURFACE Magazines and In 2007 he was invited to Lecture for the GE9 conference on Arts Business in Denmark. His Book," Techniques of performance through the principals of the Horton Technique" will be published by Lepos in Italian in 2013. He is
His performances have been described as "Outstanding and Graceful" by Backstage ," Brilliant and sensual with his body and it's intention", La Tercera (Chile) and Potsdamer Nachrichten described him as," possessing an exalted charm which is an expression of all things beautiful and human", the Wolfsburg Algemene, Germany says of him," Outstanding in his superb expressiveness" and, "magnificent."