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 20 years of partner dancing and 8 years of cheerleading, Joy has loved 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 lives in Rochester, New York where she runs Lady Luck Blues . Together with the rest of the Lady Luck Blues team they run SnowBound Blues.  Previously she lived in 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, Tim O'Neill, Jered Morin, Davis Thurber, Dexter Santos, Jerry Warwick, John Joven, Dan Repsch, Shawn Hershey, Forrest Rogers-Markovitz, Justin Hileman, and Steve Losh.