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2. At 83, 'Lion King' choreographer Garth Fagan is still inventing moves

Subjects
The Lion King (Play), Dancing -- Dance reviews, Choreographers, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Celia Wren Choreographer Garth Fagan has seen roaring success: The Jamaican-born dancemaker won a Tony Award in 1998 for choreographing 'The Lion King,' a musical that has been viewed [...]

Published
2023

3. Garth Fagan and Dancers Wow Sold-Out Audience at Texas A&M University-Commerce

Subjects
Dancing, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Texas: Texas A&M University-Commerce has issued the following news release: Texas A&M University-Commerce welcomed premier choreographer Garth Fagan and his Garth Fagan Dance company to the university's Performing Arts Center [...]

Published
2023

4. Garth Fagan and Dancers Wow Sold-Out Audience at Texas A&M University-Commerce

Subjects
Dancing, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business
Abstract

Commerce, Texas, Feb. 28, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Texas A&M University-Commerce welcomed premier choreographer Garth Fagan and his Garth Fagan Dance company to the university's Performing Arts Center on February [...]

Published
2023

5. Garth Fagan.

Author

Sloat, Susanna

Subjects
CHOREOGRAPHERS, CHOREOGRAPHY, BALLET, BALLET companies
Abstract

The article profiles choreographer artistic director of Garth Fagan Dance Garth Fagan is presented. Details about Fagan's dance mixing, the way of mixing music and dance, and strategic choreography are offered. Fagan's "Prelude: Discipline Is Freedom," performed to jazz by Abdullah Ibrahim and Max Roach and "So You See" are noted.

Published
2016

6. Grants and Acquisitions.

Author

Free, David

Subjects
*MERGERS & acquisitions, *CHOREOGRAPHERS, *LIBRARIES
Abstract

The article focuses on acquisitions by libraries. It reports that the Library of Congress has obtained the papers of choreographer Garth Fagan and dance company, while the Hoover Institution Library and Archives has acquired and digitized the papers of Donald Wayne Richardson, an ice-climbing mountaineer and World War II soldier. It mentions that the collections include various materials such as photographs, recordings, notes, and personal items.

Published
2023
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7. Cause for celebration: Garth Fagan's company turns 40

Author

Reiter, Susan

Subjects
Dance companies -- History -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Choreographers -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Arts, visual and performing, Garth Fagan Dance (Dance group) -- History -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
Abstract

If ever a company had the proverbial humble beginnings, it was Garth Fagan Dance. A professor at the State University of New York, Brockport, in 1970, Fagan began teaching a [...]

Published
2010

8. Cause for Celebration.

Author

Reiter, Susan

Subjects
*DANCE companies, *DANCE education
Abstract

The article features the dance company Garth Fagan Dance, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The dance troupe was founded by Jamaican choreographer Garth Fagan in Rochester, New York in 1970 from teaching dance to untrained students. One of its notable performances was "Prelude: Discipline Is Freedom" made in 1981 and revised in 1983, which introduced his signature movements. Among its members who stayed with the troupe since its inception are Steve Humphrey and Norwood Pennewell.

Published
2010

9. JAZZ IN MOTION AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER.

Author

Sloat, Susanna

Subjects
DANCE, JAZZ dance, DANCE production & direction, DANCE festivals
Abstract

Presents information on the jazz dances performed during the "Jazz in Motion" production at the Jazz at Lincoln Center's Grand Opening Festival in New York in November 2004. "The Wind Up," performed by Amar Ramasar; "Trips and Trysts," directed by Wynton Marsalis and choreographed by Garth Fagan; "Spaces," performed by Savion Glover.

Published
2005

10. Fagan's Flight.

Author

Fitzgerald, Sharon

Subjects
*CHOREOGRAPHERS, *DANCE companies
Abstract

Features Jamaican-born choreographer Garth Fagan. His educational background; How he started his career in dancing; How he established his dance company called the Bottom of the Bucket BUT... Dance Theatre.

Published
2000

11. Not My Job: We Ask The Choreographer Of 'The Lion King' About Lying Kings

Subjects
The Lion King (Play) -- Personalities, Choreographers, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=531284627 HOST: PETER SAGAL PETER SAGAL: Last fall we went to Rochester, N.Y., where we met the dancer and choreographer Garth Fagan. He's [...]

Published
2017

12. When Inspiration Won't Strike.

Author

SCHWAB, KRISTIN

Subjects
*CHOREOGRAPHERS, *CREATIVE ability
Abstract

The article offers information on what choreographers do when they are not able to come up with a creative idea. Chloe Arnold states that she prefers to take Salsa or hip hop classes that would make her relax. Troy Schumacher mentions that he takes a break and spends time alone or read a poem to deviate his mind for some time. Garth Fagan highlights that he considers chatting with his dance collaborates as a stress buster and returns to his work with a fresh mind after a chat.

Published
2015

13. Broadway's Lion Tamer.

Author

Gladstone, Valerie

Subjects
*CHOREOGRAPHERS
Abstract

Profiles choreographer Garth Fagan. Career background; Choreography for the broadway production `The Lion King'; Views of dancers on Fagan; Characteristics of his works.

Published
1999

14. Fagan, Garth.

Subjects
*CHOREOGRAPHERS
Abstract

Presents a biographical account of the life of Garth Fagan, artistic director of Garth Fagan Dance and choreographer of the Tony-Award-winning motion picture `The Lion King.' Background information on his life; Career achievements of Fagan; Challenges which Fagan faced in his career; Relationship between Fagan and his father.

Published
1998

15. The Long Jump.

Author

Schillinger, Liesl

Subjects
*CHOREOGRAPHERS, *DANCE companies, *DANCE
Abstract

Profiles choreographer Garth Fagan whose dance company, the Garth Fagan Company, is scheduled to present performances for the autumn of 2004 at the Joyce Center, the City Center and the Jazz Lincoln Center in New York City. Practice of getting dancers of different ages and dance experiences; Reason for dancers' loyalty to the company; How Fagan treats his dancers; Comments of P. J. Pennewell Jr., one of the lead dancers, on Fagan's choreography.

Published
2004

18. Senior dance major to audition for 'Lion King' choreographer in New York City

Subjects
The Lion King (Play), Dance, News, opinion and commentary, Sports and fitness, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
Abstract

Byline: Kelsey Phillips, Rocket Contributor Kelsey Phillips, Rocket Contributor March 24, 2015 A Slippery Rock University student is set to audition with a world-renowned choreographer after submitting an audition tape [...]

Published
2015

19. Garth Fagan

Subjects
Arts, visual and performing, Wayne State University
Abstract

Garth Fagan has won Wayne State University's Apple Award for theater [...]

Published
2015

20. Sculptural force with subtext

Author

Scherr, Apollinaire

Subjects
Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business, Business, international
Abstract

DANCE Garth Fagan Dance Joyce Theater, New York Since founding his company four decades ago, Garth Fagan has lived and worked upstate, impervious to the fret and ferment surrounding novelty [...]

Published
2009

21. THE 'LION' LEAPS TONIGHT

Author

Clear, Marty

Subjects
General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: MARTY CLEAR TAMPA -- If, for some reason, you wanted to use baseball stats to describe Garth Fagan's Broadway career, you'd come up with something like this: 10 seasons, [...]

Published
2008

22. To his own beat

Subjects
The Lion King (Play)
Abstract

Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard Garth Fagan's father didn't want him to be a dancer. Fagan's dad was a proper academic who wanted his son to follow in his intellectual […]

Published
2008

23. A Departure Adds Colors To the Palette

Author

Dunning, Jennifer

Subjects
Fagan, Garth
Abstract

Garth Fagan has sometimes seemed a limited modern-dance choreographer, with jagged moves and cross-stage patterns as his too familiar trademarks. There was some of that when Garth Fagan Dance opened […]

Published
2007

24. DANCE.

Subjects
*CHOREOGRAPHERS, DANCE performance
Abstract

The article reviews several dance productions in New York City for November 2017 featuring different choreographers including Garth Fagan, David Dorfman, and Yvonne Meier.

Published
2017

25. American Dance Guild's 60th-Anniversary Festival.

Subjects
DANCE festivals
Abstract

The article offers information on the Celebrating Diversity dance festival as celebration of the American Dance Guild's anniversary to be held on September 7-10, 2017; and administration of an honouring approaches for several choreographers such as Garth Fagan.

Published
2017

26. November Dance Calendar.

Author

WARREN, CHARMAINE PATRICIA

Subjects
DANCE performance
Abstract

The article offers information on several events to be held from November 2-24, 2017, including premiere of Miro Magloire's New Chamber Balle, dance performance by Garth Fagan, and premiere of Preeti Vasudevan's "Stories by Hand."

Published
2017

27. Garth Fagan Dance Joyce, New York HILARY OSTLERE The Critics

Author

Ostlere, Hilary

Subjects
Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business, Business, international
Abstract

It is quite a stretch from the artistic animal antics of The Lion King to the dreamy romanticism of Brahms' Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in B minor, but [...]

Published
2004

28. Finding their focus far from New York; Garth Fagan's dancers commit themselves to living and working in Rochester, away from the center of their world

Author

Reiter, Susan

Subjects
Music of the Line/Words in the Shape (Dance), Dance companies -- Location, Rochester, New York -- Personalities
Abstract

THEY take to the stage like a breed apart: unusually fluid and contained, displaying their exemplary control and resilience with a distinctively cool yet intense focus. There is no mistaking […]

Published
2001

29. FREDERICK DOUGLASS INSTITUTE MARKS 25 YEARS WITH GARTH FAGAN DANCE DEMONSTRATION

Subjects
Dancing, Universities and colleges, News, opinion and commentary, State University of New York. The College at Brockport, University of Rochester
Abstract

Rochester, NY -- The following information was released by the University of Rochester: Garth Fagan, 'one of the great reformers of modern dance,' will launch the 25th anniversary celebrations of [...]

Published
2011

30. DANCE IN REVIEW; Striking Shapes In Eloquent Patterns

Author

Dunning, Jennifer

Subjects
Fagan, Garth
Abstract

Garth Fagan Dance Joyce Theater The dance was at its best when it was most stylized in a performance by Garth Fagan Dance on Friday night. Mr. Fagan honed his […]

Published
1999

32. DANCE REVIEW; On a Slave Ship, Humanity's Power

Author

Kisselgoff, Anna

Subjects
The Lion King (Play)
Abstract

The genius is in the detail. If any choreographer knows how to make one part of a dancer's body move in rhythmic counterpoint to another, it is Garth Fagan. Teaming […]

Published
1999

33. DANCE; For Garth Fagan, Home Is Where The Focus Clears

Author

Gladstone, Valerie

Subjects
Fagan, Garth
Abstract

ON a recent bright, crisp morning, the 12 members of Garth Fagan Dance arrived at company headquarters in downtown Rochester excited that they would be learning a new Fagan work […]

Published
1999

34. Vitolio Jeune.

Author

SIMPSON, HERBERT

Subjects
*DANCERS, *CANCER
Abstract

The article profiles dancer Vitolio Jeune. As a teenager, he danced in the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti to support himself and his grandmother who was then dying of cancer. He later won a scholarship to Artcho Dance, a contemporary troupe in Haity and then joined the Ayikodans Company. In August 2009, Jeune officially joined Garth Fagan's company called the Garth Fagan Dance.

Published
2011

35. Girl Most Likely….

Author

Gold, Sylviane

Subjects
*DANCERS, *BALLET, *JAZZ
Abstract

The article features dancer Tanya Birl, who stars in Rob Ashford's revival of the musical satire "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." She spent almost four years touring with "The Lion King," which was choreographed by Garth Fagan, and was also part of the original Encores! production and short-lived Broadway run of "Finian's Rainbow." Birl learned the basics of ballet and jazz at the Dance Factory studio in Mississauga, Ontario.

Published
2011

36. DANCE.

Subjects
*DANCE
Abstract

A calendar of dance events in the New York City area for November 2010 is presented, including "The Radio City Christmas Spectacular" featuring the Rockettes dance company, "Dance by Neil Greenberg," and "Garth Fagan Dance."

Published
2010

37. DANCE.

Subjects
*DANCE, *BALLET, *PERFORMING arts
Abstract

The article presents a list of dance performances in New York City in October 2006. The ballet "In the Upper Room," choreographed by Twyla Tharp, will be performed by the American Ballet Theatre at City Center. Garth Fagan Dance will perform "Senku," choreographed by Garth Fagan, at the Joyce. The Dumbo Dance Festival will play at the John Ryan Theatre.

Published
2006

38. Keisha Clarke.

Author

Smith, Amanda

Subjects
*BALLET dancers, *BALLET, *DANCE, *CHOREOGRAPHY
Abstract

Features ballet dancer Keisha Laren Clarke. Personal and career background; Participation of Clarke in the ballet production "The Lion King"; Challenges faced in learning the dancing techniques of choreographer Garth Fagan.

Published
2005

39. DANCE REVIEW; A Painter In Movement Defies Bonds Of Gravity

Author

Kisselgoff, Anna

Subjects
Fagan, Garth
Abstract

Definitely an original, Garth Fagan and his splendid dance company returned on Tuesday night with the fables and visions that dance in Mr. Fagan's head. To note that he is […]

Published
1998

41. CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Leading or Supporting, Dance Knows Its Role

Author

Kisselgoff, Anna

Subjects
The Lion King (Play)
Abstract

Dance fans at more than one Broadway show this summer might feel like the protagonist of Moliere's 'Bourgeois Gentilhomme,' who was unaware that he was speaking 'prose.' Audiences might be […]

Published
1998

42. DANCE VIEW; Neighbors on 42d Street, but a World Apart

Author

Kisselgoff, Anna

Subjects
Taymor, Julie, Fagan, Garth
Abstract

DANCE ON BROADWAY GETS A new chapter with 'The Lion King' and 'Ragtime,' the two current blockbusters on 42d Street. Esthetically, they are hardly within hailing distance, and yet they […]

Published
1998

43. IN PERFORMANCE: DANCE

Author

Dunning, Jennifer

Subjects
Fagan, Garth
Abstract

Simplicity and Surprises, Also Emotions and Quirks Garth Fagan Dance Joyce Theater There was a distinct feeling of doubleness to the new repertory presented by Garth Fagan Dance on Friday […]

Published
1996

44. DANCE REVIEW;A Vision of Steps That Often Clash

Author

Anderson, Jack

Subjects
Fagan, Garth
Abstract

Garth Fagan loves to mix movements and he doesn't always appear to care whether they match. Unexpected and often bizarre juxtapositions of steps contribute much to the visual distinctiveness and […]

Published
1996

45. DANCE REVIEW;Age Wins in Limon Bill Of Works From the 40's

Author

Dunning, Jennifer

Subjects
Fagan, Garth, Nagrin, Daniel
Abstract

The Limon Dance Company jumped abruptly from the 1940's to the 90's on Wednesday night, when four dances entered the repertory for the company's two-week season at the Joyce Theater […]

Published
1995

46. TELEVISION REVIEW; A Dance Tells the Tale Of Urban Vicissitudes

Author

O'Connor, John J.

Subjects
Great Performances (Television program)
Abstract

Dance is given a thrilling spin on tonight's 'Great Performances' presentation of Garth Fagan's 'Griot New York.' The 'Dance in America' production is a studio version of the choreographer's full-evening […]

Published
1995

47. IN PERFORMANCE; DANCE

Author

Anderson, Jack

Subjects
Fagan, Garth
Abstract

2 Titles Promise Stories But Deliver Portraits Joyce Theater Despite its title, Garth Fagan's 'Telling a Story' doesn't tell a story, at least not in the usual sense. Instead, this […]

Published
1994

49. DANCE REVIEW; A Master of the Dynamic Image With an Unexpected Guise

Author

Kisselgoff, Anna

Subjects
Dancing -- Dance reviews
Abstract

Garth Fagan's choreography, usually oblique but also resonant with mood and meaning, has acquired a cult following in recent years. 'Postcards: Pressures and Possibilities,' his latest and often witty premiere, […]

Published
1994

50. Review/Dance; A Company Still in Search Of a Repertory

Author

Kisselgoff, Anna

Subjects
Dance Theatre of Harlem (Dance group)
Abstract

Dance Theater of Harlem's 25th anniversary season, which opened on Friday night at the New York State Theater, promises less of a retrospective view of the company than a celebration […]

Published
1994

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