About Us
BEAT started in September 2004, the first street dance crew to open in Bournemouth.
They made their West End debut in 2007 & have since competed in the British street dance championships, Southern street dance championships, hip hop championships, performed in Disneyland Paris, danced at the Royal Albert Hall & for ITV's Story of Street Dance.
In 2009, Laura was appointed the organiser of the southern regional hip hop championships by hip hop international.
As well as annual shows in local theatres, BEAT hold an annual awards night so that the students get recognition for their hard work being awarded certificates, medals & trophies. Now years later & having built a good reputation in the area, we are always being booked to give workshops in schools, perform at events & provide children's parties!
Beat is...
Laura Cuschieri - Director & teacher
Laura trained as a professional dancer then went on to dance in musicals, commercials and films. She then discovered Street dance and ditched her ballet shoes and tights for a pair of trackies and trainers!
Victoria Farley - Teacher & music editor
Victoria started as a BEAT student at the age of 12 and discovered her love of teaching during her work experience at BEAT. As she showed such passion, dedication and commitment, Laura took her under her wing as an assistant and teacher trained her for four years.
Sarah Durburget-Gard - Assistant & Trainee
Sarah has had many years training in ballet, tap, modern & musical theatre with dance & theatre schools & took street dance classes with local crews before discovering BEAT & enjoying so much here she wanted to take it further.
Marcin Puchala - Breakin teacher
Has trained and danced with Butterfly Crew (Poland) and original crew Second to None. After gaining 1st place in the Urban Dance Crew Championships in Poland he went on to dance for, RBK Hip Hop TV show, TBS Crew and various...
Julien Moreau - Guest teacher Breakin
Started dancing when he was 12 years old, he's now 21. He learnt 'Newstyle' and then kept practising breakin by himself learning a lot from other B-boys he met.
Julien has done many shows with a "K-danse" crew and at the same time...
Scott Jackson – Parkour teacher
Trained himself in Parkour / Freerunning and has excelled in this art for five years. He previously competed at national and international standard in Trampolining but decided to focus on Parkour because he felt it offered much more variety.
