The power and energy behind Shane O'Hara's work is deeply rooted in the human condition. O'Hara's dances are created from the inside out, each finding its own life path and form. As a performer, he has shared his work with audiences throughout the United States and Europe including concerts in Lisbon, Athens, Krakow, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. He has worked with the thompson & trammell dance company in residencies in Poland, Denmark, Portugal and Germany. O'Hara was also a guest instructor at the Pro Danza Italia Summer Workshop in Tuscany in 1998 and at the White Mountain Summer Dance Festival in 2005. He has received grants from the USIS/American Embassy, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts and Virginia Commission for the Arts as well as a Fulbright Fellowship to Portugal and a Guest Professorship at the University of Martinique.

O'Hara is a Professor Emeritus of Dance from James Madison University, guest faculty at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, and currently works setting commissioned dances throughout the U.S., performing a concert of Daniel Nagrin's solo works entitled The Nagrin Project and touring as Shane O'Hara * Solo Dance. His artistic activities include performances in The New Dance Festival in Virginia, Joyce Soho in New York, Dance Place in Washington, D.C., Tribute to Daniel Nagrin Festival at Arizona State University and Richmond, and the Dancing Rebels National Conference in Saratoga Springs. Presently, he is in the position of "Artistic Director" of the Nagrin Foundation by dance master Daniel Nagrin, and will be in charge of all setting of Mr. Nagrin's historic solos nationally and internationally. O'Hara has a MFA from Arizona State University and is also a 500-hour Yoga Teaching Alliance yoga instructor and currently teaches master classes in dance and yoga throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.