Beth Jucovy has performed extensively and given workshops and
classes in Duncan, ballet, modern, and jazz techniques both in the US
and throughout Europe and Israel. She choreographs for and directs
Dance Visions, now Dance Visions NY, a not-for
profit organization. Dance Visions NY is a professional company performing works of
contemporary choreographers, as well as the works of major dance
pioneers. Dance Visions has been the recipient of
twelve NYSCA
decentralization grants and six North Shore
Community Arts Council grants. The company performs throughout Long Island
and the NY metropolitan area.
Beth also
danced for a decade with Andrew Jannetti and Dancers,
performing frequently at many NYC venues. She was a soloist with the
Downtown Ballet Company for six years, as well as with
Ameridance International, a jazz dance company based in Munich,
Germany. She is an Isadora Duncan dance specialist trained since
childhood by Julia Levien. She had also worked intensively with Anna
Sokolow. She has received critical acclaim in the major NY papers as
well as abroad for her performances.
Aside
from teaching at her studio Children Dancing (24th year), she
has been dance educator at the Dalton School in Manhattan teaching the
kindergarten dance program since 2003. Beth is a Lincoln Center
Aesthetic Education trained teaching artist working
through The Tilles Center. She
presents workshops in many LI schools as well as professional
development workshops for teachers and teaching artists through this
program.
Beth was a dance
educator in the NYC public school system from 1997-2005. In the
Summers of 2002 and 03 she was ballet instructor at USDAN Center for
the Performing and Creative Arts in Huntington.
Her choreography has
been commissioned for many projects including for Poe-Artistry
performed at Hofstra, for a Korean children's television English
Language Learning series and for Old Westbury Gardens 50th anniversary
celebration. Her works have been performed at venues including
the 92nd St. Y, City Center, The Hatch Presenting series, National
Dance Guild at Arts Of Motion, Silk Arts Festival and Waterside Plaza
Dance Festival.
Beth dances with her
company, Dance Visions NY, and teaches dance
workshops at universities, libraries and centers throughout the
Metropolitan area.
