Joyce has been teaching dance full time for the last 17 years. Her entire career has been devoted to dance since childhood. She has studied and taught all forms of dance including, jazz, ballet, international folk dance, social dance, tap, middle eastern dance, and of course, square, line, contra, C&W, and clogging. Her college degrees were in dance and she taught full time in the departments of Physical Education at Queensborough Community College and was the Department Chairperson of the College of Mt Saint Vincent, both in New York, before leaving to teach dance full time.