Ashley Shaw (dancer)

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Ashley Shaw (born 1990) [1] is an Australian ballet dancer who regularly performs leading roles with Matthew Bourne's New Adventures. [2] [3] [4] She debuted the leading role in Bourne's Cinderella in 2009. [1] In 2016 Matthew Bourne cast her as Vicky Page in his adaptation of The Red Shoes . [5] [6] Shaw played Aurora in Bourne's 2022 Sleeping Beauty staging. [7] [8] [9] She has also danced the parts of femme fatale Lana in The Car Man [10] [11] [12] and Princess Sugar in Bourne's Nutcracker!, [13] [14] and appeared in his version of Swan Lake with all-male swans. [13]

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Early life and education

Shaw grew up in Nelson Bay, north of Sydney, Australia, and has danced since she was three years old. [1] [3] Her three siblings – two sisters and a brother – are also dancers. [2]

At the age of 12, Shaw decided to start full-time dance training in ballet, contemporary, and jazz, studying with Marie Walton-Mahon at her dance school in Newcastle, New South Wales. [13] [1] [3] A recipient of the Royal Academy of Dance Solo Seal, she was a semi-finalist at the Genée International Ballet Competition in Athens, Greece. [13] In 2005, at the age of 15, she left Australia to study at Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham, United Kingdom. [1]

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