DANCE VISIONS

 

Testimonials and critics about Dance Visions

...when danced with clarity, musicality, and conviction, as they were at this performance,(the works) are touching and exhilerating...Jucovy filled the unornamented movements with quiet intensity...(the dancers) bounded like racing does until falling to Earth after an excess of ectasy. Joseph Mazo, Newsday

Jucovy revives a lost art... (she) is an authority on Isadora Duncan's dances. (The dances) looked authentic and interesting. Dora Sowden, Jerusalem Post

The opening "Three Graces" was impressively performed by Beth Jucovy, Julie Finch, and Adrienne Ramm. To Chopins' Preludes and Waltzes Jucovy and Ramm brought ardor, Jucovy being particularly lyrical in her soft balance, and gently jumped ballones. ...she danced with evident zest in Hortense Kooluris' Nell Gwyn Suite... Ramm had the look of the famous Walkowitz pen and ink drawings of Isadora in motion. She projected a joyousness in the simple skips, swirls and runs that effectively invoked the Duncan spirit. Hillary Ostlere, Chelsea Clinton News

You did it again!  Thank you so much for the beautiful performance at Jericho yesterday, Sunday, May 17th, 2009.  Your latest show, Dances of  Nature/Dances of Interactions,was just incredible.  The staging, costumes, choreography and precision of movement was just such a pleasure to watch.  It is always a pleasure to have Shirley Romaine speak.  The music was at times beautiful and/or interesting and fit the dances perfectly.
I love to hear the comments of the audience...."I'm so glad I came", "I was so surprised at how professional the dancing was", "Will you have them back again?".  It makes me smile. It's always a wonderful day when you perform here. Phylis Cox, PR/ programming coordinator, Jericho Library, (09)

The audience loved it Edie Kalickstein, Program Director, Long Beach Library (09)

Our work with Dance Visions has been a wonderful collaboration… this Summer we worked with Dance Visions on two wonderful programs which entailed more than 8 performances in 2 months. Dance Visions was able to bring quality performances for a young audience and their parents and grandparents and introduced these people to artistic concepts, creation and interpretation of Modern Dance. Jim Packard, Long Island Children’s Museum (08)

I understand you got “rave “after “rave.” Thank you for the splendid program. You SOAR! A patron left a note saying “I found the Duncan program… mind boggling, wonderful, beautiful, upliftingingly rewarding ”Edie Kalickstein, Program Director, Long Beach Library (08)

OUTSTANDING! Some of the high school students came by my office to tell me that Dance Visions was one of the nicest performances FOTAs(Friends of the Arts)brought to HVS…. THANK Jill Carroll, Principal,Henry Viscardi School(08)

…Splendid performance of A World of Dance…you manage to educate us about modern dance – as you entertain. We come away from your programs wanting to see more – feeling enriched and so glad we came.”Edie Kalickstein, Program Director, Long Beach (07)

I was even more impressed (if possible) than the last time you performed here.  A World of Dance was exquisite.  Everything was perfect...the music, choreography and the dancers.  The company outdid themselves….… Not a person left…The patrons were delighted and so complimentary. One woman said “We don’t even have to go to Manhattan Phyllis L. Cox Programming, Jericho Public Library (06)

The audience was moved to tears by the performance, truly a beautiful experience for all. Mary Jane Bolin, Nassau BOCES

A beautifully performed program. Philip Jackson, Queens Museum of Art

The dancing was beautiful, the material interesting, and the connection with the audience immediate and palpable. It was clear form the children's faces and reactions that they were absorbed and fascinated by what they saw. the audience participation was done in a very meaningful way. Toby Glickman, United Nations International school, Queens (01)

Wonderful performance of Visionaries, Revolutionaries and Mavericks. Our audience clearly enjoyed... a testament to Dance Vsiosns that despite the bad weather nearly 200 people, young and old, attended. Elizabeth Olesh, Port Washington Library Program Director (01)
I am proud to be associated with a program supporting such talent and beauty. Joan Savary, NGA coordinator

Dance Visions "Isadora" was truly divine... enchanting dancers, splendid musicians, enourmously gifted Shirley romaine... our audience was totally charmed by all of you.Aviva Crown, Cultural Programming specialist

The interweaving of Isadora's story with the authentic duncan dances was beautifully done. the dancers are splendind as are the children... deeply moving. Ali Pourfarrokh, Artisitic Director, Eglevsky Ballet

From classical ballet to a diverse sampling of distinctive modern, mixed with a dollop of jazz... residents were treated to Dance with a capital D...The most amazing thing about this performance was the versatility of the dancers...The audience loved the finale- "Passages" which was fun and crescendoed into an upbeat hats-in-the-air ending. The program (Dance old and New... the Spirit and the Passion) was a grand introduction (to dance)Arlene Saiki for the Great Neck Record

From Isadora Duncan dance concerts, including Dance Visions dancers Beth Jucovy and Adrienne Ramm

Moments of great beauty- fluid bodies in silk tunics, fervent skippings and lovely supple arms. Deborah Jowitt, the Village Voice

Highly successful... joyous, wonderfully wild nymphs. Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times

...the five dancers were as impressive as an entire corps de ballet,their kinetic flow recalling the simple yet miraculous rhythms of human breath... There were several effective solos. In the 'Scriabin Etudes' Ms. Jucovy was tender as a mother, Ms. Ramm was impressive in Duncan,s portrait of a Revolutionary. Jack Anderson, The New York Times

A rewarding program that touched the heart...showed remarkable grace in the nearly impossible haunting evocations they sustained...enthralling program. Robert Kimball, New York Post

Full of delightful moments... These were wonderful images...like splendid Amazons asserting their power with spectacular leaps and bold stances... seemed to epitimize the spirit of Duncan, a fierce boldness of spirit and passionate surrendor to the senses.  Pikula, Dance Magazine

Press quotes of Beth Jucovy

Beth Rosenbluth (Jucovy) was the poignant antagonized protagonist to the life (about the piece "Julia de Burgos") Bill Zakariasen, Daily News

Beth Jucovy was outstanding in a drama of Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos Byron Belt, Long Island Press

Particularly good were Mecedes Lois, a Spanish dancer and Beth Jucovy, who had the title role Bob Micklin Newsday s Especially outstanding was Beth Jucovy, who possesses a dancing musicality and is a pleasure to watch. Eva Fisher, Munich Mercur

The New Yorker, Beth Jucovy, shows in her solo 'I Hear a Symphony' illusions in grace and charm. Hiel, South West Tagespost, Graz, Austria

Beth Jucovy is an interesting young dancer who showed originality in her interpretation of the Furies, Jennifer Dunning NY Times

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