THEY started from nothing, using the dance floor of a nightclub, but six months later a Southampton group will take on some of the best street dancers in the country.

Members of 101, a dance crew of 12 to 26-year-olds, will represent the south in the Herts, Beds and Bucks Street Dance Championship in Luton on Sunday.

Their teacher and professional dancer Jukie Mcenzie said: “This is huge, absolutely huge, competitors come from all over the country – this is what we train for.”

In the run-up to this event, the ten dancers have been practising three to four hours a day. They wowed the judges in a regional competition in Portsmouth in August, coming first out of 300 entrants.

Jukie, 29, from Sholing, said the group started after the youngsters heard him practising his moves inside the White House nightclub in Above Bar and asked if they could join in.

The group has continued to grow through word of mouth and now Jukie runs a 101 Dance school, which includes hip hop and breakdancing lessons.