Garth Fagan Dance

Sunday, August 28, 2005 • 8 p.m.

Garth Fagan's choreography has received a host of awards and honors, most recently and notably for Walt Disney's The Lion King, which won him the 1998 Tony Award for Best Choreography. His company, Gartyh Fagan Dance, now in its 34th year, is at the top of its profession and is recognized internationally for their distinctive style and virtuosity. The Fagan style fuses modern dance and ballet with African and Caribbean folk traditions and incorporates an eclectic range of music from Bach to boogie-woogie.

"The dancers he (Fagan) has trained," said David Vaughan in Ballet Review, "are virtuosi...fearless too, able to sustain long adagio balances, to change direction in mid-aor, to vary the dynamic of a turn, to stop on a dime."

"Only the greatest choreographers achieve true originality. It takes inventive genius to transform that farmiliar object, the human body. cometimes by turning it only a few degrees in one direction or another. Garth Fagan...is such a wizard."                                                                                                                                                                                             -The Star-Ledger

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