DANCE VISIONS

Dance Company

 

Director and teacher biography

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, a professional company performing works of contemporary choreographers, as well as the works of major dance pioneers. Dance Visions has been the recipient of over fifteen NYSCA decentralization 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 (23rd 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 through 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, Waterside Plaza Dance Festival, Old Westbury Gardens, and The Long Island Children's Museum among many other venues.

Beth dances with her company, Dance Visions, and she also performs dance concerts in collaboration with Actress Shirley Romaine. She teaches dance workshops at universities, libraries and centers throughout the Metropolitan area.

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