Contemporary dancer & choreographer

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. She has performed internationally, nationally and extensively throughout the NY metropolitan area. Beth’s full-length programs are often presented 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 festivals including StylePointe, Fast Forward and Dance Bloc for Dixon Place, Emerging Artists Theatre’s New Works Series and Spark Festival, with KoDaFe at Ailey Citigroup Theater, and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Her projects have received over two dozen annual NYSCA and General Operating support grants. 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 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. dancevisionsny.org