MAGMA is a center for movement practices where people of all ages can discover, develop, and create in a broad curriculum of movement styles. We offer dance technique, improvisation-based classes, martial arts, fitness, movement for special populations, and somatics workshops. MAMGA is an inclusive, non-discriminatory place to move, regardless of dance experience, age, body type, race, sexual orientation, or disability.
MAGMA is venue for performances spanning dance, theater, performance art, music, and interdisciplinary practices. We also host professional dance research residencies in the Summer months.
MAGMA Team
Director
Sarah Slifer Swift
Advisors
Kate Tarlow Morgan
Vincent Cacialano
Matthew Swift
Teachers
Sarah Slifer Swift
Ramon Alves
Sarah Fader
Carey McKinley
Myles Kercher
Lissa Geggis
Jillian Chavez-Oliveira
Dianna Daley
William Gleason
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Sarah Slifer Swift has been on faculty at Boston Conservatory, Boston Ballet School, Boston Conservatory, Salem State University, George Washington University, Amsterdam College of Art/School for New Dance Development, Scotland’s National Center for Dance (Dance Base), and Liza Indiciani Studio of Dance. Through the Gloucester Education Foundation, she created and taught two dance curricula for Gloucester Public Schools – “Dance Through the Decades” for 3rd graders, and “Devised Physical Theater” for High School students. She directed the Live Art Series from 2014-2020, and the Gloucester New Arts Festival from 2005-2009 that specialized in site-specific art and performance.
Slifer Swift performed as a dancer with several contemporary dance companies and choreographers in the US and in Europe. Her choreography has been performed in Amsterdam, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and in New England and has received several grants and awards, including a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for Choreography.
