Shaw made her start early earning her Screen Actor's Guild status by starring in the ABC Afterschool Special, Love Hurts, dancing with The Indianapolis Children's Dance League, and acting in school and community theatre performances. She went on to graduate cum laude with a B.A. in English from the University of Indianapolis.  After studying modern dance from the  Jordan College of Fine Arts, Shaw travelled and performed her way through Egypt, Israel and all over Europe where she danced in the Edinburgh Arts Festival and also introduced other performers as a show host for the televised Festival Revue in Princess Gardens.  Her ethnographic interests have since led her to Bali, Indonesia, where she studied the Balinese ceremonial dances, oleg tambulilingan and the baris warrior dance, and to India in 2006, where she studied Sapera dance with the Kalbeliya "Gypsies" of Rajasthan.

Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2001, Shaw has danced with two different dance companies in the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, performed for the San Francisco Opera, danced in Yaelisa's premiere of the critically acclaimed "Sol Viento," at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, starred as a guest artist in "Flamenco Forever" at L.A.'s Fountain Theatre, and debuted many solos at Cafe Flamenco in ODC Theatre.  In 2007, she collaborated with dancers Mira Betz and Hannah Romanowsky to create a contemporary dance choreography to Tim Rayborn's folkloric ballet, The Flame and the Shadow. This artistic union sparked her interest in working further on innovative choreography and in November 2007 she produced Eve's Elixir with Betz and Romanowsky as co-artistic directors.  The premiere of Eve's Elixir drew deeply from flamenco, Persian, and Arabic dance, infusing them with jazz, modern, classical dance, and burlesque. Shaw plans to produce the project annually, providing a platform for other new aspiring and established choreographers of contemporary world dance who reach deep for their own personal potency, explore the authenticity of the self, and create more honest and powerful elixirs of experience.

A generous and rhythmically astute teacher, Shaw has taught several different styles of dance including belly-dance, American tap, and flamenco to both children and adults for the last six years as part of ongoing local classes as well as presenting specialized workshops as a guest artist nationwide. Shaw is currently taking a hiatus from teaching adults in order to fully focus on creating new work, but does find time to volunteer at Escuela Bilingue Internacional where she shares her love for dance by teaching a World Dance and Music Appreciation class to kindergarten students.

Clamoring to know more? Written during a cheeky fit of mischieviousness, Shaw tells all in this Honest Truth Bio.