Amy Turner-Daly

Freelance Dance Artist

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 has created several large scale pieces including 'Adrenaline' for Elmhurst Ballet company (performed at Sadler's Wells) and HELL-BENT for Ballet DJKT.

Amy has now founded and directs Youth Ballet North whilst continuing to perform and tour professionally with Cork City Ballet and British festival Ballet