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! Laura loved the music and freedom of stlye so therefore decided to learn more from Sisco Gomez (BBC's 'So You Think You Can dance' judge) and danced in many urban music events.

Whilst working as a dancer, she taught and choreographed for theatre schools and shows in London, Southampton and Bournemouth. Laura is the only accreditted street dance teacher in Dorset and Hampshire! She continues to learn from world class hip hop dancers and wants to pass on her knowledge and passion to all the BEAT students.

Laura also trained as a drama teacher for the Helen O Grady drama academy and taught for many years, she believes that her teaching skills from both diciplines are the secret recipe to BEAT!

Sarah Duburguet-Gard - Teacher & Assistant to the Director

Sarah has had many years training in ballet, tap, modern & musical theatre with dance & theatre schools & learnt street dance with other local crews before discovering BEAT & enjoying so much here.

After showing so much passion, dedication, enthusiasm & hardwork Laura asked if she would like to assist the classes & train to be a teacher, Lil DG was delighted.

Laura has given Lil DG intensive training in all the hip hop styles and in teaching and she is now a street dance teacher for Planet Sport holiday activities and for BEAT.

Lil DG gained 1st place in adult duos in the Southcoast street dance championships 2011.

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 recording artists. Other credits include Strictly Street Dance and Urban Dance Weekend at the Broadway theatre in the West End. Marcin has taught in youth centres in Poland and has been a judge for the Southern Regional Hip Hip championships for Hip Hop International. His impressive power moves are awe-inspiring and mesmerizing.

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 did many battles with his crew called "B&B", they won some battles which got them work on big stages in french festivals in front of 10,000 people. Then he came to England to improve his English and to work as a french teaching assistant at Ringwood school which gave him the chance to meet many dancers and to share many good times with Beat. Now living back in Paris studying Theatre in an acting school he still practises a lot and hopes to come back to England asap to see all his friends from Beat!!!!

Julien will be dancing in Beat's awards night on Sunday 21st October!

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. Scott is sponsored by Urban Freeflow and X-Works. Parkour has given Scott some amazing opportunities such as working on TV, films, adverts, performances all over the world and most of all being able to facilitate learning with others. His most recent adventures with Parkour have seen him jet off to Abu Dhabi for the opening of a Film Festival as well as flying to Santorini in Greece to take part in the Red Bull Art of Motion Contest in October 2011 after gaining 4th place in the competition last year!

Scott is often assisted by his brother Adrian who has also been involved in Parkour for five years and coaches for a cheerleading team.