Born in Chicago, by the age of 6 Beata was in Cincinnati and enrolled in ballet classes.  By the age of 18, she had 9 years of ballet, some jazz, some gymnastics and had choreographed the dancing for her high school drama club performance of the Wizard of OZ.  While majoring in science (and partying) in college at the University of Cincinnati, Beata missed dancing and joined a teacher training class with Arthur Murray Dance Studios in 1980.  Bit by the dance bug she has been teaching and dancing part- or full-time ever since.

In 1982 a high school chum invited Beata to move to Dallas.  Among other things Beata found Push (a version of West Coast Swing), Hustle and Country danced socially with exceptional skill.  Until this time the only accomplished dancing she had found had been in the ballroom studio and/or ballroom competition communities.

Drawn by the availability of good dancing and instruction and the casual fun social atmosphere generated by the Push Dance Clubs, Country Night clubs and Discos in Dallas, Beata quickly began spending more and more time dancing.

In 1991 Beata moved to Los Angeles to work for a non-profit organization, The Citizens Commission on Human Rights.  In 1992 while teaching dancing at her church Celebrity Centre, Beata was told about the West Coast Swing community.  At a swing event in Orange County, California, Labor Day 1992 was, as Beata puts it, “the beginning of the end” of her normal life.  She had been bitten by the dance bug early in life but now developed the terminal “swing dance” infection with which she is sure she will live and die, happy and active with this social disease.

In October of 1995 Beata left her “real” job and went back to teaching full time.  From April 1996 to 2003 most of her work was on the road and though she currently calls Dallas “home”, “home is really where her friends are …all over the country”.

Currently, besides dance, Beata is running a non-profit criminal reform and rehabilitation program at the Dallas County Jail.  3 or more days a week she spends 3 to 4 hours with a group of felons assisting them to rediscover their self-respect, values, virtues and tools to lead a legal and productive life.