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Meet our founder

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Amy Turner-Daly

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Amy grew up in Newcastle Upon Tyne, and trained at Northern Ballet's Centre for Advanced Training and Elmhurst Ballet School Upper School. During her training, she won several awards at the Youth America Grand Prix, including placing 3rd (classical solos) in Italy 2018. She qualified for the world finals in New York 2019 and was awarded several scholarships which led to additional training with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and Dutch National Ballet Academy. After qualifying, she toured the UK with Northern Ballet in 2019/20. In 2020 she began working with the National Moravian- Silesian Theatre in Ostrava as Corps de Ballet with solo responsibilities (2020/21) moving to Ballet DJKT (Czech Republic) for the 2021/2022 season.During her time in the Czech Republic, she performed a wide range of roles in the most well- known classical ballets alongside each companies' complementary repertoire of contemporary works. She returned to Northern Ballet on fixed term Corps de Ballet contracts during 2022 and 2023 touring productions such as the Little Mermaid and The Nutcracker by David Nixon CBE.

Amy is an experienced choreographer and prior to YBN, created several large scale pieces including 'Adrenaline' for Elmhurst Ballet company (performed at Sadler's Wells) and HELL-BENT for Ballet DJKT.

Amy is the lead teacher on the FTP and ATP Programmes and alongside YBN, continues to perform and tour professionally with Cork City Ballet and British festival Ballet.

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Dance staff

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Photo by George Liang

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Photo by George Liang

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Amy Becke

Guest teacher

Ellise De Andrade
FTP teacher

Alex Hallas

Guest teacher and choreographer 

Lisa Elston

Guest teacher 

Photo by Alan Mason

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Photo by Alan Mason

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Photo by Elly Welford

Ellie Trow

Guest contemporary teacher 

Katia Abramovich

Guest teacher

Alyssa Lisle

Guest contemporary teacher and choreographer

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Becca Stead

Guest teacher

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Pastoral staff

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Cait Gilfellon

Bev Turner-Daly
Wellbeing and safeguarding lead

Olivia Bailes 

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