Beth Jucovyhas 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, directs
and performs with
Dance Visions since 1990 and
she is director and educator for Children Dancing
since 1988. Beth is an
Isadora Duncan dance specialist and is a protegé
of the late Julia Levien whom she studied with since
childhood. Beth is a Tilles Center Dance Teaching Artist in
Aesthetic Education and a dance eduator at the Dalton School
in Manhattan.
Nichole
Piacenza
has danced with Dance Visions since 2005, and is a graduate from Long
Island University, CW Post, BFA in dance, minor in Theatre. She has
wide experience in various techniques of dance including ballet, jazz,
pointe, modern, tap and African Dance. She participated in several
intensives including The Alvin Ailey Summer Intensive, and
worked with choreographers Arthur
Aviles, Helen Myers and Darnetha M'Baye. Nichole performed in Jose
Limon reconstructions of Winged, Psalm and
A
Choreographic Offering. Nichole teaches ballet to young children
and is enrolled in the early childhood education masters
program at Queens college.
Christina Stampolis is a New York native.
Christina joined Dance Visions
in the Spring of 2010. She holds a
Bachelor of Science in Dance Education from Hofstra
University. As a New York State certified dance educator, she
is a dance specialist at The Lorge School in Manhattan,
and she had been teaching a public high school on Long Island.
Additionally, she performs in singer/songwriter Mike Soloway’s
show “Moving With Mike,” a creative movement and music
performance for young children. She has worked with
choreographers Rachel List, Edward Winslow, Makeda Thomas and
Karla Wolfangle.
Courtney Ramm
joined Dance Visions in May of 2010, after graduating in May from Indiana University
with highest distinction. She recieved a B.S. in Dance and Kinesiology. Courtney
trained on full scholarship at the School of American Ballet
and Ballet Academy East as well as at Boston Ballet, Miami
City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, and the Limón Institute.
She has performed the works of Paul Taylor, José Limón, and
George Balanchine, among numerous other classical and modern
choreographers. Courtney has had the unique opportunity to
perform Isadora Duncan's repertoire since childhood, including
as a child dancer with Dance Visions, and she also currently dances with "IsadoraNow."
and she presents her own choreography.
YukiIshiguro dicovered Break
dance while in college, and since then
has studied Jazz, Modern, Ballet, Hip-hop and
Gymnastics. He
danced with the Reiko Matsuoka Ballet
Compnay and Do- One Contemporary company, both in Japan.
Since arriving in NY in 2009 he
has performedin many
Ballet and Modern dance productions
as well as
his own solo works.
He is on scholarship
at
Dance New Amsterdam(DNA) and studies
with Max Stone IsabelGotzkowsky and Diane McCarthy.
Yuki joined Dance Visions in 2010
and also presently dances with
Feliciano Dance company,
Anahata Dance, IsadoraNOW, Yoo and Dancers. He recently
began creating works with Kentaro Kikuchi, creating
the Y&K Project.
Adrienne Ramm trained
since childhood in the Isadora Duncan technique. A protegé of
Julia Levien and Hortense Kooluris, she had
also coached with Anna Duncan. She was an original member of The
Isadora Duncan Centenary Company, a soloist with The
Commemorative Company for its duration, and co-director of “The Art of Isadora” and “Dancers for Isadora.”
In the U.S. she has performed at universities, festivals,
conferences, for the United Nations, and for several
documentary and archive projects. In Europe she has
taught and performed in France, Austria, Greece, and
Italy. Adrienne is a sought-after coach of the Duncan
repertory for the current generation of dancers. She has
danced in the Duncan repertory with “Dance
Visions” since its inception
Christopher
Moll is a Las Vegas native who started dancing
at the age of 10. He has a B.F.A. in acting from the
University of Montana and has performed in over 35 musicals
across the country, including an eleven week tour with the
internationally renowned Missoula Children’s Theater. He has
worked with the Coeur d'Alene Summer Theater for the past 15
years as an Actor and Choreographer and in the summer of 2010
partnered with CST for the hugely successful Children's Summer
Theater Camp Program. He is the director of the new Jazz Hands
theater program for children in
Glen Cove, LIwww.jazzhandstheatre.com. Christopher joined Dance Visions in the
Winter of 2011 with their programs of Favorites and Previews.
