Int/Adv Adult dancers, ages 16+, join Cleveland Dance Project for an amazing ballet master class with the renowned Joanne Morscher! Sunday 10/2, 1-2:30pm Above The Barre - 1450 W Bagley Rd $15 with preregistration at wellnessliving.com/login/cdp OR $20 at the door. * Joanne Hughes Morscher is a renowned classical ballet teaching artist with 20+ years of experience providing education, methodology, and comprehensive classical training to rising students and professional dancers. A native of Buffalo, NY, Ms. Morscher is a former principal dancer with North Coast Ballet Theatre. Today, she continues serving the Greater Cleveland ballet community as a guest teaching artist, staff instructor at Cleveland City Dance, and Board Member of Verb Ballets. In 2022, Ms. Morscher received her Youth Protection Advocates in Dance (YPAD) certification. * *Ms. Morscher began her ballet training under the direction of Bernadine DeMike, Janet Springer, and Ginger Burke. She continued her ballet career—serving as a corps de ballet member and later principal dancer—with acclaimed Cleveland ballet artists Marguerite Duncan and Nancy Arcury. Ms. Morscher has supplemented her training under Dee Hillier, Lynn Brennan Tabor, Troy McCarty, and Paul Wilson. Ms. Morscher continues her lifelong pursuit of dance education by attending various classical workshops in the Fokine, Vaganova, American, and Bournonville styles. She is a member of the Classical Dance Alliance (CDA), the International Dance Council (CID), and in 2021 completed Years 1-4 of teacher training in the Method of Teaching Classical Ballet.* *In 1998, Ms. Morscher founded The Royal School of Ballet (RSB), and in 2004 founded the 501(c)3 status Royal Youth Ballet Company (RYBC). Serving as artistic director of both the ballet school and youth company, Ms. Morscher presented her students and original choreography across Northeast Ohio and at nationwide Youth America Grand Prix festivals. Cleveland-area dance companies founded by Ms. Morscher’s former students include Dancing Classrooms Northeast Ohio, the Cleveland Dance Project, and The Movement Project. * Anna Cerveny Director Cleveland Dance Project clevelanddanceproject@gmail.com web <http://www.clevelanddanceproject.com> / facebook <http://www.facebook.com/clevelanddanceproject>/ instagram <https://www.instagram.com/clevelanddanceproject/?hl=en>