Ashley Coupal

Birthplace
Vancouver, Canada

Age started dancing
Five

Training
Goh Ballet Academy (Vancouver) with Kathryn M. Long and Chan Hon Goh; Orlando Ballet School with Phillip Broomhead.

English National Ballet
Joined 2021

Prizes/Awards
Prix de Lausanne – Prize Winner (2021); Japan Grand Prix – Medalist (2020); World Ballet Competition – Gold Medalist (2018); Global Dance Challenge – Gold Medalist (2017, 2018); YAGP – 1st Place Winner (2014, 2015, 2016)

Previous Companies
Orlando Ballet Second Company (2020-21)

Favourite Role
Odette/Odile (performed these dual roles in Swan Lake in her first full length ballet at the age of 16)

Career Highlight
Beginning her professional career with English National Ballet

Role would like to dance
All the classics!

Other info
Loves yoga and has been practicing with her mother since she was a toddler