Joy Arico
Watching Joy Arico dance is like seeing music out on the floor. Joy dances like she has a gallon of moxy in her quart sized container and she knows just how to serve it.
In 25 years of dancing Joy has loved cheerleading, West Coast Swing, Country Two-Step, Lindy Hop, as well as Balboa and Blues. Her exuberant love of dance is matched only by her attentiveness to technique and detail. Her number one goal in teaching is to share the LOVE of dance. Music should be the ultimate driving force of dance and she is focused on sharing ways to enhance the natural body response to music.
Joy recently moved back to Rochester from New York City where she was heavily involved with Jook Joint Shimmy Blues and Blues Blaze. She has danced, competed and taught in virtually every major dance city in the United States. She has been honored to teach with such incredible partners as Damon Stone, Barry Douglas, Bryan Spellman, Davis Thurber, Justin Hileman, and Steve Losh.
She has placed in the following competitions:
- Steel City Blues - 3rd Place J&J 2012
- Steel City Blues - 3rd Place J&J 2011
- BluesMuse - 1st Place The Jill Competition 2011
- BluesSHOUT - 1st Place Champions Division J&J 2011
- Mile High Blues - 1st Place J&J and 1st Place Strictly Blues 2011
- Mile High Blues — 3rd Place J&J and 2nd Place Strictly Blues 2010
- Enter The Blues – 1st Place J&J and 1st Place Strictly Blues 2010
- Sweet Molasses Blues — 2nd Place Strictly Blues 2010
- North East Girl Jam — 2nd Place Lindy Hop J&J 2010
- Emerald City Blues — 2nd Place J&J 2009
- Boston Tea Party — 3rd Place Lindy Hop J&J 2008
- Finalist in several other competitions throughout the US
Steve Losh
Steve is a programmer, photographer, dancer and bassist from Rochester, New York.
He has been dancing Lindy Hop for about nine years, blues for about five years, and has recently started getting his feet wet in Tango.
Steve often teaches by tying concepts in his other interests (such as negative space) to concepts in dancing.
Steve created and maintains the Lady Luck Blues website.
The site was designed by Ali and the original front-end code was put together by Nick. The photographs were made by Laura.
The site was built with Django and 960.gs and is deployed on Slicehost with nginx and gunicorn. If you’re curious and want to know more feel free to email him.
You can also find Steve on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, or at his personal site.
