Beth Jucovy

Choreographer & Dance Educator

Beth Jucovy, is founder, artistic director and choreographer of Dance Visions NY, which presents Isadora Duncan repertory as well as contemporary works inspired by the aesthetic. Beth’s full-length programs have been presented extensively at universities, festivals, theaters, museums, schools, centers, libraries and regularly at landmark gardens throughout the New York metropolitan area. Her works have been presented by many NYC showcases including Stylepointe, Fast Forward and Dance Bloc for Dixon Place, Emerging Artists Theatre’s New Works Series at TADA and Spark Festival at , Take Root at Green Space, with KoDaFe at Ailey Citigroup Theater, and through Cannonball at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Her projects have been awarded over two dozen annual NYSCA regrants and her programs have been commissioned by organizations such as the 92nd St Y, Old Westbury Gardens, Workmen's Circle and the LI Children’s Museum. Beth has been an Isadora Duncan dancer throughout her lifetime. A protégé of Julia Levien; she also studied with Anna Duncan in childhood. Beth performed as a soloist, staged and taught the works internationally including for the Rubin Academy, Kibbutz Dance Company, Karmiel Dance Festival and the Suzanne Dellal Center, Israel. She also worked intensively with Anna Sokolow, another major influence on her artworks. Inspired by words, visual art and music, Beth’s artworks often merge these disciplines with dance. Beth has also been a dance educator and dance teaching artist throughout her career and has taught at venues including her school Children Dancing, the Dalton School in Manhattan, for the NYC Dept of Education, for Tilles Center as an Aesthetic Education Teaching Artist, and currently for Great Neck Community Education.