people

Liara is the Founder and Artistic Director of Jukebox Collective. Her vision is rooted in collaboration and exploring the concept of dance as a language for inspirational storytelling. She has directed, curated, taught and produced work for a variety of local and international projects and clients. Liara is known for delivering powerful, inspiring education and artist development work, and is invested in creating platforms for local youth and producing innovative cross-platform performance work.  

Samandal joined our team in 2023. She coordinates our social media activity as well as our marketing initiatives. As a cultural writer, Samandal is inspired by the stories of marginalised communities and hopes to use her voice to celebrate their creativity and success. 

Youness El Mouaffaq‘’Cri6’’ was born and raised in Morocco and is known internationally for his grace and athleticism as a bboy. With a deep knowledge and connection to the international dance community, he has performed and held winning titles in some of the world’s greatest competitions including Red Bull BC ONE World Final, UNDISPUTED World series, BBIC KOREA, B.I.S China and many more. Youness currently teaches breaking in our academy.

Reule is from Cardiff and is an alumnus of Jukebox Collective, dancing with Jukebox Juniors as a child. He has been a part of the performing arts industry for over a decade, whether that be Dance, Acting or his current pursuit, creating a leading presence in the music industry. Reuel currently teaches our guest workshops for organisations across Wales such as RWCMD and NDC Wales.

Benny is a rap artists from Barry and music academy tutor. He is the first Welsh rapper to appear on the BBC3 show The Rap Game.

Lauren is the Strategic Director and works closely with Liara to deliver and grow the creative vision and mission of the organisation. Lauren has over 10 years experience working in the creative industries, after graduating from London College of Fashion she lived in Hong Kong and Japan, collaborating with partners and clients across Asia, Europe and the USA. Lauren oversees our brand communications, agency & productions using her international experience within the creative industries.

Gabin joined the team in 2023 as a Project Assistant for our agency and the Future Creatives projects. He is an actor, filmmaker and poet. Through his unique vision and talent, Gabin helps us deliver innovative and impactful projects.

Truli is a multi-talented individual in the process of developing her artistic career as a dancer and designer. She is the founder of Lab Creatives and studies fashion design at college. Truli is currently in year 4 of our academy and is represented on our agency. After completing her dance leader training, she now delivers hip hop classes within our community programme.

Brooke specialises primarily in the funk dance styles of popping and locking and has built a reputation as the forerunner of the UK streetdance scene having won numerous international competitions as well as being regularly invited to judge competitions all over the world. Brooke is the choreographer and lead dancer of the 2x Hip Hop International crew champions Plague and brand new animation dance team, Pro-Motion as well as a key member of the Funkstylerz & Fiya House dance groups.

Darnell has been involved with Jukebox Collective since a very young age, firstly dancing with Jukebox Juniors, one of our earliest dance crews back in 2010.  Darnell has since begun studying Song Writing and developing his career as a Music Artist.  Alongside this he works with us as our assistant producer and delivers weekly street dance classes for our kids club. 

Tarina currently assists with the day-to-day running of our Academy Programme, ensuring the Wellbeing of our students and supporting the programme coordinator with Academy administration. Tarina is passionate about health and wellbeing and runs her own juicing business, delivering juices around Cardiff on a weekly basis.

Patrik moved from Czech Republic to Cardiff in 2015 and began dancing shortly after. He is an alumni of our Academy and is represented on our agency. Patrik is invested in developing his artistic disciplines as a dancer and actor and also teaches popping for our community open class.

Kairese is a sound and studio engineer, and tutor for our music academy. He has worked with numerous artists around Cardiff to bring their music to life, and he is a mentor to our academy students, supporting them along their music careers.

Naomi is a multi-disciplinary creative working with Jukebox Collective on our photography and visual outputs. 

Three-jay teaches the singing classes at our academy and enjoys seeing the confidence of the students grow year on year. He has been involved in many educational projects and academies throughout his career, supporting young people with mentoring, tuition and artist development.

Jo-el is a talented content creator, dancer and film-maker. He recently started his own YouTube channel and Instagram account dedicated to his photography and videography content. Jo-el has been attending our academy since it began back in 2015. He now teaches the open hip hop community class alongside attending college and taking part in the Jukebox Collective ‘Duets’ project with Ballet Cymru.

Iamcas is a Welsh recording hip hop artist and tutor for our music academy. An experienced musician with many singles under his belt, in 2023 he released the summer bop Slidin with Cardif-based rapper Millie.