Gulf Coast School of Performing Arts

Gulf Coast School of Performing Arts is a dance studio in Biloxi, Mississippi, teaching students of all ages. Its staff includes Launa Craig, who teaches ballet. Craig began her training at Ballet Theater School under Cheryl Black and danced in Ballet Theater South's The Nutcracker for twelve years. She received coaching from the Royal Ballet's Henry Danton and attended summer intensives with Joffrey Ballet, Orlando Ballet, Nashville Ballet, and Ballet 5:8. A 2024 graduate of Belhaven University with a BFA in Dance, she trained under Laura Morton of Milwaukee Ballet, Ravenna Tucker Wagnon of The Royal Ballet, and Samantha Shelton of American Ballet Theater. Her performing credits include Myrtha in Giselle, Symphony in C, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Elite Syncopations, and she has worked with choreographers Steve Rooks of the Martha Graham Company and Mia Whitehead of Ballet San Antonio.

Sara Shay Turner teaches musical theatre, hip hop, jazz, and tap. A Long Beach native, wife, mother, and Army veteran, she also coaches tumbling at Cheer Zone Athletics and teaches in the school's after school care program. She trained in voice, ballet, jazz, hip hop, lyrical, and acrobatic arts at studios across the country, and counts tap as her favorite style. She is the current captain of the Biloxi Pearls Shuckers cheerleading team and a former Mississippi Sea Wolves hockey cheerleader.

The studio sits on D'Iberville Boulevard. It holds a rating of 3.70.