Biography

Ashley Shaw is an Australian ballet dancer who regularly performs leading roles with Matthew Bourne's New Adventures. She debuted the leading role in Bourne's Cinderella in 2009. In 2016 Matthew Bourne cast her as Vicky Page in his adaptation of The Red Shoes. Shaw played Aurora in Bourne's 2022 Sleeping Beauty staging. She has also danced the parts of femme fatale Lana in The Car Man and Princess Sugar in Bourne's Nutcracker!, and appeared in his version of Swan Lake with all-male swans.