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.  

Lauren is the Strategic Director at Jukebox Collective, where she works closely with the team to deliver the organisation’s creative vision and strategic direction. She leads on brand communications, productions and business planning, and has co-led successful funding bids securing Jukebox Collective’s place within the Arts Council Wales portfolio. Lauren nurtures partnerships supporting the company’s mission to shape and celebrate Welsh culture through creativity and community.

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.

Darnell has been part of Jukebox Collective since a young age, starting out as a member of Jukebox Juniors, one of our first dance crews in 2010. He is now pursuing a career as a music artist and studying Songwriting, while working with Jukebox as our Participate Coordinator. Darnell also delivers weekly street dance classes, sharing his creativity and experience with the next generation.

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.

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.

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

Jo-el is a dancer and film-maker and is one of our tutors for our ‘Duets’ project with Ballet Cymru and our weekly open classes.

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.

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.

Reuel is a singer, DJ and dancer. He is a tutor for our dance classes and in our Academy.