Magnus Midwest dance intensive
The Magnus Midwest Dance Intensive is one of the premier residential ballet workshops in the United States and it lives at the Flint Cultural Center. Since 1996, hundreds of dancers have spent their summer training for a career in dance under the tutelage of Artistic Director John Magnus.
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History of the Intensive
In 1996, Edith D’Addario, Director of the Joffrey Ballet School in New York, made a decision that would impact the lives and careers of talented dancers in ways almost unimaginable at the time. She decided to bring the intense level of training that was available in New York to the Midwest and the Joffrey Midwest Workshop was born.
This year the Flint Cultural Center Corporation and Flint Institute of Music’s Boards of Directors voted to honor the many years that John Magnus has spent training the next generation of professional dancers by renaming the intensive Magnus Midwest Dance Intensive.
In the past 14 years, hundreds of dancers have spent four weeks each summer on the beautiful campus of the Flint Cultural Center honing their skills, developing their craft and making life-long friends. Artistic Director John Magnus has shaped the technical and artistic direction of the intensive to reflect not only the Joffrey technique but also his own unique and intense style of bringing out the very best a dancer has to offer. Mr. Magnus has worked since the inception of the Midwest Intensive to make sure that dancers are prepared to move on to the next step of company apprenticeship, corps de ballet, teaching or college.
Students practicing on The Whiting stage during Magnus Midwest Dance Intensive
The Magnus Midwest 4-week long summer intensive culminates with the Magnus Midwest Showcase performance held at The Whiting