The Team

Creative Director and Founder - Rhowan-Alice Mackinnon (Miss Alice)

Alice founded YBS (previously Fife Ballet Company) in 2023. Over the last few years, Alice’s role as adapted. You’ll still find her in the studio and in the email inbox however you’ll also find her supporting trainee teachers, bringing costume dreams to life and planning out what’s next for YBS.

RAD Trainee Ballet Teacher - Joanna Milne Joanna trained full-time at Ballet West and has worked free-lance across Fife and Kinross. Now with us full-time, you’ll find Joanna teaching classes, coordinating costume rentals, organising events and studying for her RAD teaching qualifications. Joanna takes the lead with our junior school and LittleSwans classes, being a Mum herself she knows exactly how important those early years classes are.

Free-Lance Ballet Teacher - Amy Glass Amy trained full-time at Dance for All and has since thrived while transitioning into the teaching world. You’ll mostly find Amy working with our production dancers where she brings creative inspiring choreography to life with our team. In addition, Amy leads our adult classes and injury prevention programme. Amy is working towards her RAD teaching qualifications and Injury Prevention SQA Certification.

Head of Student Welfare & Uniform - Valerie Rowbotham Val is a hugely valued member of the team, leading the way with all things Student Welfare keeping safety and dancers happiness at the forefront of everything we do. Qualified Social Worker, we are so lucky to have Val’s expertise as we expand and grow our dance family. Additionally, Val fulfils all of our uniform orders and will answer any questions re sizes or swaps.

Admin Co-ordinator - Farah Munroe The original ‘admin angel’! Farah started out helping with the little tasks such as booking halls and keeping on top of formalities however as the community grows her role has evolved and you’ll now find her answering queries and coordinating staff schedules and tasks. She is the glue that holds the operation together.

Videography, In-house photography and Head of Production Props - Jen and Stuart McMillan The dance parent duo that make that have been there to make the vision a reality from the very beginning. Jen and Stuart have made all of our magical props and set over the years and continue to amaze us all with their creativity and ability to pull it all together. Additionally, they provide videography for our productions and calm supportive photography sessions for our dancers along with our teachers.

Branded Merchandise - Sally Williamson

From branded cookies and cupcakes to logo water bottles and bags - Sally keeps us right! Full insured and with the best attention to detail - we are so lucky to have her.