Beth Jucovy

Choreographer & Dance Educator

Beth’s full-length programs have been presented extensively at universities including Hofstra, Adelphi and LIU Post, festivals including 4 years for Old Wesbury Gardens' Midsummer Night, theaters including Speyer Hall at University Settlement and TADA! and museums, schools, centers, libraries and regularly at landmark gardens throughout Long Island and beyond. Landmark gardens include Sands Point Preserve, the Nassau County Museum of Art, Steppingstone Waterside Theatre, Cedarmere, the Universalist Unitarian Congregation Shelter Rock among many others. In addition her programs have been commissioned by organizations such as the 92nd St Y the LI Children’s Museum and Cedarmere/Bryant Park, NYC and the Walt Whitman Birthplace.

Her works have been presented by many showcases, some of which include Stylepointe, Fast Forward and Dance Bloc through Creative Performances at Dixon Place, Emerging Artists Theatre’s New Work Series at TADA!, Take Root at Green Space, KoDaFe at Ailey Citigroup Theater, through Cannonball at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and at several Isadora Duncan International symposiums.

Her projects have been awarded over 20 annual NYSCA regrants, over a dozen North Shore Community Arts Council grants, Dance NYC Coronavirus Grants, Indiespace Grants, several annual awards from ZONTA, Artsreach Fund, and an SOS grant to learn works from Anna Sokolow.

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 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 danced with the Isadora Duncan Commemorative Company and subsequently many NYC based Duncan groups before forming Dance Visions NY.

Beth has given workshops and classes in Duncan, ballet, modern, and jazz techniques both in the US and throughout Europe and Israel. Aside from founding and teaching at her school, Children Dancing from 1989-2020 , she had been a Dance Specialist at the Dalton School in Manhattan teaching the kindergarten dance program from 2003-2013. Beth was a Lincoln Center Aesthetic Education trained teaching artist through The Tilles Center for over a decade and had presented workshops in many Long Island schools as well as professional development workshops for teachers and teaching artists through this program.She was a dance educator in the NYC public school system from 1997-2005. In the Summers of 2002 and 2003 she was ballet instructor at USDAN Center for the Performing and Creative Arts in Huntington. She currently teaches dance and fitness classes for Great Neck Community Education and runs online classes in Duncan Dance and Nickolaus Based Body-Conditioning.