Juel Bedford

Juel Bedford- Dancer, Pilates, Athletic Instructor Ms. Bedford was born in Barbados, West Indies before moving to New York City to attend Julia Richman H.S for the performing arts where she studied Cunningham, Graham, Horton, Vaganova Ballet and Fosse techniques. She spent her summers exploring the vibrant dance scene of NYC taking classes at the Ailey School, Pilates Studio with Romana Kryzanowska, Kathy Grant and Gyrotonic with Kathy Van Patten She later attended SUNY Brockport College graduating with a BA in Dance and a BS in Biomechamics. At Brockport she studied with Garth Fagan renowned choreographer of Broadway’s The Lion King, dance and performed with Garth Fagan Dance Company for 10 years teaching Fagan technique. Juel”s collegiate studies include such pioneering professors, Laban/Feldenkisis with Jackie Davis, Somatic dance with Sondra Farleigh and finally working with Natalie Goodhartz to combine her passion for dance, science and sports into a combined degree of Biomechanics. Her sport conditioning research began with functional strength training of downhill skiers, gymnastics, martial arts and swimmers, later receiving her Pilates certification with Physicalmind to integrate Pilates as “dance rehab meets sports mite”. Juel has over 20 years of experience in the dance, sports and fitness industries, and has become extremely well know for creating curriculums for sport/fitness, dance in Italy, France, Turkey and USA. JPilatesMoves is her company- which multifaceted idea is her understanding of how the human body can strengthen, align and heal itself with poetic beauty as vital meditation in motion.