Beverly A. Moore always wanted to study dance as a child but never had the chance. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens, she began her dance training as an adult in her late twenties, with a summer intensive at Clark Center for the Performing Arts, studying with Thelma Hill and Pepsi Bethel.  Then she moved to North Carolina and away from dance.  Ten years later, Beverly returned to New York, still inspired by her experience with Thelma Hill, she resumed her classes at Clark Center and further developed her abilities within various genres of dance.  She took classes with Marjorie Perces, Ronald Alexander, Ella Moore, Pepsi Bethel, Tee Ross, Alfred Gallman and Eleanor Harris while raising two children and working as a legal secretary for over twenty years.

Beverly has performed with Harriet Brown and the Copasetics, Loris Beckles Dance Company, Mama Lou Parks Dancers (which led to a performance at the White House), Mable Lee’s Dancing Ladies, and extensively with Charles Moore Dance Theater, under the direction of his wife, Ella Thompson Moore.  At a certain age, and after Mable Lee passed away, Beverly thought she couldn’t dance any longer, thinking perhaps she was getting too old to dance.  With the urging of Ella Moore, Beverly made her way to Audrey Madison’s modern jazz class in 2019, and soon joined MoJazz Dance.  Her first MoJazz performances, Light INspiration for the Collective Thread Dance Festival, and JoyFULL for the Dwana Smallwood More Arts More Alive Festival, helped her realize that dance is vital to her physical and mental health, and is emotionally essential as she ages.  Beverly is an accomplished seamstress and has created the now iconic MoJazz Dance garment, shoe, and makeup bags so that MoJazz Ladies arrive in style.  She is a resident of Jackson Heights, Queens and continues to study and perform in tap, African, swing, and other dance experiences throughout New York City.