Ashley Morton was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, studying Ballet at Chicago Ballet Arts and various summer programs throughout the United States. After high school, Ashley expanded her formal dance training, studying on scholarship under the Lou Conte Dance Studio’s Scholarship Program, and performed professionally in Ruth Paige’s Nutcracker and other small Chicago projects. In 2015, Ashley was accepted to Alonzo King’s LINES’s Ballet Training Program in San Francisco, California, where she lived for a year before moving to Portland, Oregon.
Ashley joined push/FOLD as a company member in 2019, and currently and teaches dance and performs as an independent artist within Portland.
