Master Class with Joseph Morrissey
Schedule
Thu Aug 10 2023 at 11:30 am to 01:00 pm
Location
Portland Ballet | Portland, ME
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Portland School of Ballet is excited to welcome Joseph Morrissey for a Master Class on Thursday, August 11 from 11:30am-1:00pm. Mr. Morrissey is the Director of Dance at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, and for those interested, this Master Class can also serve as an audition for Interlochen's Arts Academy for the 2023/2024 Year or for their 2024 Summer Program. -Open to intermediate/advanced/pre-professional ballet students ages 13+
-Cost: $20
Please sign up in advance here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=19386990&appointmentType=25688757
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Joseph Morrissey is the Director of Dance at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, USA. He formerly served as Director of Artistic Planning and Touring for The Hong Kong Ballet and as Director of the CORPS program with The Portland Ballet. Morrissey has danced with the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich, Germany; Charleston Ballet Theatre and Boston Ballet II. Morrissey has twice been invited to choreograph for the Stuttgart Ballet’s Noverre Society, and was later selected to choreograph for the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of The New York City Ballet where he created work for students at the School of American Ballet together with an original score commissioned by students at The Juilliard School. Morrissey has choreographed for the Inside/Out series at The School of Ballet at Jacob’s Pillow, a program of which he is a two-time alumnus, and was invited to choreograph for Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet’s 2017 ChoreoPlan. Morrissey’s work has also been shown at the 2015
Beijing International Ballet Competition and in Italy at the Festival Ballet d’Adriactico and Roberto Bolle and Stars from American Ballet Theatre. At Interlochen, Morrissey has staged and produced brand-new full-length versions of The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake along with programming works by choreographers including George Balanchine, Lucinda Childs, Agnes de Mille, Martha Graham and Anthony Tudor to name a few. Morrissey was a selected participant in the 2015 Dance/USA Institute for Leadership Training, a platform for emerging and notable leaders in the dance field sponsored by the American Express and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations.
Holding a Master of Arts in Performing Arts Administration from New York University, Morrissey previously earned his Bachelor of Science in Classical Ballet from The Jacob’s School of Music at Indiana University and he is a four-year graduate of The Harid Conservatory in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. He further trained at summer programs including The Royal Ballet School in London, England and The Houston Ballet Academy in Houston, Texas. Morrissey completed the Preservation and Development of the Vaganova Method training seminar at the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia and has instructed classical ballet classes at the Warsaw State Ballet School and Wroclaw State Opera Ballet in Poland; American Ballet Theatre Studio Company; Australian Conservatory of Ballet in Melbourne, Australia; and the Senior Men’s class at English National Ballet School in London, England.
Morrissey is profiled in the January / February 2020 issue of Dance Teacher Magazine and currently serves on the jury for the Youth America Grand Prix, the International Baltic Ballet Competition in Riga, Latvia and the Japan Grand Prix in Tokyo. On December 25, 2020, Morrissey’s version of The Nutcracker was aired on Detroit’s PBS television affiliate Detroit Performs and in February 2021, Morrissey opened the doors to Interlochen’s brand-new state-of-the art dance center. Morrissey was invited to be the first-ever commencement speaker to graduates of the Performing Arts Administration program at New York University on May 15, 2021.
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Where is it happening?
Portland Ballet, 517 Forest Ave., Suite #2,Portland,ME,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
