He started his professional career in SĽUK as a dancer. Later, he held the posts of choreographer, head of dancing, and chairman of the artistic council. He created eight evening-length programmes for SĽUK.

For seven years, he was the head of the ballet company in Mörbisch, Austria. He was also the founder and artistic director of US SLUKA and stood at the birth of the Slovak Chamber Ballet. He receives several prestigious awards for his choreographic and directorial work. He has collaborated with many professional dance and theatre companies, and his choreographies have become a mainstay of major entertainment programmes on Slovak and Czech television and film. He currently works as a freelance performer and leads the dance group Atašé, focusing on producing modern acoustic dance shows.

The characteristic features of Jaroslav Moravčík's choreographies are a distinctive movement vocabulary, humour, an extraordinary sense of rhythm, dynamics and dance expression. He likes to use props and unconventional choreographic techniques. A perfect command of folklore material as well as the canon of classical and modern dance with an emphasis on rhythm are evident in works such as: Čertoviny [Devils’ Stuff], From the Heart, Haravara, Magical Violin, Genesis, Golden Music (SĽUK), Masquerade Ball, The Play about Saint Dorothy, Don Giovanni, Rusalka, La fille du régiment, The Merry Widow, Little Red Riding Hood, Boris Godunov, Svätopluk (Slovak National Theatre, Bratislava), Kubo, Lemonade Joe, Saint Francis of Assisi (New Stage Theatre, Bratislava), The Jewish Night, The Austrian Night, The German Night, The Italian Night, Under a Foreign Flag (Theatre Arena, Bratislava), The Nutcracker (Bratislava Puppetry Theatre), From the Beginning (Slovak Chamber Ballet), High Life (Theatre Wüstenrot, Bratislava), Báthory, Adam Šangala, Peter Pan, Wuthering Heights, Finian's Rainbow (Andrej Bagar Theatre, Nitra), Gypsy Roots, Wiener Blut, Der Freischütz, Der Bettelstudent, Blue Rose, Polepetko (State Opera, Banská Bystrica), A Crazy Day (VUS, Bratislava), Lysistrata, The Visit of the Old Lady (Jozef Gregor Tajovský Theatre, Zvolen), In the Rhytm, From Fairy Tale To Fairy Tale, Polepetko (State Theatre Košice), Black Cat, Cimbalom, Dance, Violin, Carmen and Don José, A Place for the Roma, The Lost People, The Gems of Destiny (Theatre Romathan, Košice), Living Beauty (PUĽS, Prešov), The Chardash Princess, Gypsy Baron, Maugli, Kiss Me, Katherine, Pa-di-pa-ré, Báthory, Diagnosis I21, Saint Francis of Assisi, Mary Antoinetta (Jonáša Záborského Theatre, Prešov), The Curious Fairy Tale (Slovak Chamber Theatre Martin), Maťo the Bear Is Looking for a Nest (Ján Palárik Theatre, Trnava), Cyril and Methodius, The Stars of Folklore (Bratislava), Ballad for the Bandit (Municipal Theatre Žilina).

 

Czech scenes:

Big Beat, Kabaret, Clochemerle, Šugar (DJM Ostrava), The Chardash Princess (Slezské Theatre Opava), A Night at Karlstein, Faust, Tři v tom [Three in that], The Merry Wives of Windsor, Playing with the Devil, The Most Beautiful War, Maryša, Romeo and Juliet, Around the world in 80 days, Heaven on Earth, Cinderella, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Těšínské Theatre), The Gypsies Go to Heaven (VČD Pardubice), Painted on Glass (Puppetry Theatre Ostrava), Manon Lescaut (State opera Praha), Gypsy Roots (SD Ústí nad Labem)

 

Choreographies for films:

Fountain for Zuzana 2, The Flight of the Storks, Music, Cinka Panna, Jánošík.

He worked as a choreographer on the 360-degree multinational rock opera Pietro e Lucia.