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Northshore October 2025
The moment Sarah Slifer Swift walked into the long-unused space in downtown Gloucester, she knew she had found something special. “When I came in here, I said, ‘Here it is. Here’s a place I can do all the things I envisioned,’” she says. “It was literally my dream space.” What Swift envisioned was a dance studio that would offer people of all ages and abilities a chance to experience the joy of moving their bodies without pressure, competition, or judgment. What she created was MAGMA—it stands for Movement Arts Gloucester Massachusetts—a center where students from preschoolers to retirees practice ballet, learn hip-hop ch
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