Meet The Team
Amy Fern - Principal & Managing Director


Amy had a love of dance from a very young age. After years of ‘dancing around the living room’, her Grandmother insisted that her Mum take her to a dance class!
She attended The Southern Minstrels Stage School from the age of 6 and quickly developed a passion for all dance genres – learning Ballet, Tap, Modern and Jazz. She also developed a love of singing and started regularly singing solo in performances at just the age of 7.
She performed in theatres across the south and competed regularly in competitions such as The British Arts Awards but mainly her love was performing! From 2002-2003 she performed in Sunday Night Live Variety Shows at Her Majesty’s Theatre and The Palace Theatre in London’s West End and she continued to attend stage school until 2005, when she left to start singing and performing professionally in her spare time.
In her adult years, Amy qualified as a Nursery Nurse and in her spare time she also enjoyed organising sporting and entertainment events for local Charities.
She formed Blue Butterfly Event Management in 2006 and in this time organised events for Woking and Aldershot FC. In her spare time she continued to perform and had also started teaching dance in local dance schools and with local theatre groups.
In 2014, after realising there was a need for quality event entertainment and bringing together her knowledge of entertainment and events, she formed Blue Butterfly’s very own event dancers -The Butterflies; who she still manages, choreographs and performs with at many charity and corporate events.
In 2015, she achieved her Associate Dance Teaching Qualification with the IDTA and started two fun dance classes, mainly for her 3 daughters, who had inherited her love of dancing and so…… Blue Butterfly Dance Company was born.
Since starting Blue Butterfly Dance Company she enjoys teaching Commercial/Street/Hip Hop styles.
Amy is now the proud owner and Managing Director of Blue Butterfly Studios and plays a very active role teaching our Commercial style Butterfly Classes, Urban Cheer/Acro, Step Up, Pre -school and Musical Theatre classes. She is always keen to develop her teaching skills and has now progressed her IDTA Associate qualification to the new IDTA Level 4 Diploma in Dance Teaching. She is also qualified in teaching Acro, is a qualified Urban Cheer teacher with the UK Cheerleading Association and is working towards another IDTA Level 4 Diploma in the Theatre Branch. She has a wealth of experience and training in Child Protection/Safeguarding and is the Safeguarding Officer at Blue Butterfly Studios.
Her most important role is being Mummy to her 3 girls who are already in training to take the reins of the studio one day
Maria Young - Tap Teacher

Maria joined the Southern Minstrels stage school along with her sister at the age of 7 and performed with them in many theatres across the country and abroad for 23 years. She competed in the British Arts Awards and was awarded with honours on many occasions.
She also began choreographing and teaching at this time and helped students gain bronze, silver and gold medals in tap.

Jennifer Ashley - Preschool & Ballet Teacher


Jennifer didn’t start dancing until the age of 11, but very quickly fell in love with it!
Brandon Clarke - Contemporary Teacher


Adele Squibb - Yoga Instructor


Adele’s passion is Yoga! She loves sharing it with people of all shapes, sizes and abilities. She has personally seen the physical, spiritual and mental benefits that Yoga has brought to her students and to herself.
11 years ago, Adele decided to try out a yoga class at her local gym….. The next thing she knew she was hooked. She went from attending one class a week to practicing yoga every day! After encouragment from her Yoga teacher, she decided to do teacher training with YYI (Young Yoga Institute), in South Africa, where she underwent an intense two year training programme to become a teacher. She has now been teaching Yoga for 12 years and is privileged to teach a number of classes in Hampshire.
Adele joined Blue Butterfly in 2019 when we opened the studios and teaches our Adult Yoga classes. She also teaches Parent & Child Yoga, which proves popular during the holidays and has taught courses of pregnancy Yoga too. Through her excellent teaching, her aim is to empower her class to understand their own hidden potential.
Whether you are an advanced Yogi or just a beginner, there is a always a place for you in Adele’s class!
Rob Jenks - Blue Butterfly Studios Photographer

Rob has been a professional photographer for 4 years after completing a diploma in wedding photography. He loves portrait and landscape photography and is often up before sunrise to capture some stunning images.
Rob performed on stage in his teens and has a keen eye for capturing the emotion of the performances he photographs.
He has known Amy, and her husband David, for many years and is affectionately known as ‘Bertie.’
When asked to photograph for Showtime 4, he jumped at the chance and since then has been involved in lots of activities for the studio. This included showtimes 4 and 5, dress rehearsals, Santa’s Grotto and a charity event for Mental Health awareness.
Rob has three children and works for the emergency services as a full time job.
His business name is Leaf Photographic. visit his website at www.leafphotographic.co.uk

Rob has been a professional photographer for 4 years after completing a diploma in wedding photography. He loves portrait and landscape photography and is often up before sunrise to capture some stunning images.
Rob performed on stage in his teens and has a keen eye for capturing the emotion of the performances he photographs. He has known Amy, and her husband David, for many years and is affectionately known as ‘Bertie.’
When asked to photograph for Showtime 4, he jumped at the chance and since then has been involved in lots of activities for the studio. This included showtimes 4 and 5, dress rehearsals, Santa’s Grotto and a charity event for Mental Health awareness.
Rob has three children and works for the emergency services as a full time job.
His business name is Leaf Photographic. visit his website at www.leafphotographic.co.uk
Luke Willett - Design & Print
Luke is the Managing Director of Diguru-uk.com and is also the amazing talent behind the many Blue Butterfly logos and images you see on our website and merchandise.
He designed the first Blue Butterfly back in 2006 and made our brand look as professional as it does today!
When he is not busy designing for us, he is working at Diguru which is a local printing company based in Eastleigh, Hampshire. Diguru have provided all the studios print ever since the studios opened. We were also very lucky to have them design all our COVID Secure signage.

Join The Team
We are always looking for ways that we can grow at Blue Butterfly Studios – with new classes, new teachers and new opportunities. We would love to hear from you, if you would like to work with us at Blue Butterfly Studios.