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| name = Garth Fagan | image = Garth Fagan 2009.jpg | imagesize = 100px | birthname = Gawain Garth Fagan | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|05|03|df=y}} | birth_place = Kingston, Jamaica | occupation = Theatre director, dancer, choreographer | spouse = | yearsactive = 1950s–present | website = http://www.garthfagandance.org | dramadeskawards = Outstanding Choreography 2000 The Lion King | olivierawards = Best Theatre Choreographer 2000 The Lion King }} Gawain Garth Fagan, CD (born 3 May 1940) is a Jamaican modern dance choreographer. He is the founder and artistic director of Garth Fagan Dance, a modern dance company based in Rochester, New York. BiographyEarly yearsFagan was born in Kingston, Jamaica to Oxford educated S.W. Fagan, former Chief Education Officer of Jamaica, and Louise I. Walker.[1] It was a gymnastics class that initially drew his attention to dance early on. While attending Excelsior High school, he studied with Ivy Baxter at the Jamaica National Dance Company and performed at the inauguration of Cuban President Fidel Castro in 1959. Fagan was educated at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with sights on becoming a psychologist.[2] CareerFagan worked at several dance companies in Detroit, and moved to Rochester New York in 1970, and there established his dance company originally named the "Bottom of the Bucket BUT ... Dance Theatre" in 1970. He was a Professor, at State University of New York, Brockport starting in 1970. Fagan choreographed for the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and the Limón Dance Company in the 1970s. He has studied the works of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Pearl Primus, Alvin Ailey, José Limón, and Katherine Dunham. He is also influenced by Caribbean and West African dances.[1] Fagan's choreography incorporates elements of modern dance, ballet, Afro-Caribbean dance, and social dance. Many of his works are autobiographical or include themes of personal relevance. His untitled 1977 work chronicles the dissolution of his marriage, showing a couple beginning a relationship with affection and passion but eventually drifting apart due to inevitable obstacles. Griot New York, which premiered in 1991 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is about the experiences of the underprivileged living in New York City. The piece juxtaposes linear balletic movement with sharp angular gestures, twitching, and erotic partnering to represent the diversity and contrast found in big cities as well as conflict in his own life. In Moth Dreams, choreographed in 1992, Fagan celebrates his childhood, adolescence, and relationship with his mother. Personal lifeFagan resides in Rochester, New York, is now divorced, and has two children.[1] Stage productions{{Col-begin}}{{Col-break|width=50%}}
Honours and awardsFagan is a Distinguished University Professor at the State University of New York at Brockport. He has a Bachelor of Arts from Wayne State University, and earned a Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Rochester in 1986, and holds honoris causa Doctors degrees from Juilliard School, Hobart College, William Smith College, and Nazareth College.[1] Fagan received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998, and a three-year Choreography Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.[3][4] He was made Commander in the Order of Distinction of Jamaica in August 2001, and was presented the Prime Minister's Award by Jamaican Prime Minister P. J. Patterson .[5] In 2005 he received the Artist of the Year Award from the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester.[6] In 2012, Fagan was named one of America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures by the Dance Heritage Coalition.
References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite book | last=Weitzman | first=Lisa S. (ed.) | chapter=Garth Fagan | title=Contemporary Black Biography | chapterurl=http://www.answers.com/topic/fagan-garth | location=Detroit | publisher=The Gale Group | year=2006 | isbn= | accessdate=2008-09-04}} 2. ^{{cite web | author=Sharon Fitzgerald | title=Fagan's Flight - the accomplishments of choreographer Garth Fagan | url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1546/is_2_15/ai_62024106 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041012084233/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1546/is_2_15/ai_62024106 | dead-url=yes | archive-date=2004-10-12 | work=American Visions | date=April 2000 | accessdate=2008-09-04}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Latin American and Caribbean Fellows 1989 |url=http://www.gf.org/ffellow.html |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |year=2008 |accessdate=2008-09-04 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807173417/http://www.gf.org/ffellow.html |archivedate=7 August 2008 }} 4. ^{{cite book | last=Molaire | first=Mike F. |author2=Jones, Marsha |author3=Tanksley, Fred | title=African-American Who's Who, Past & Present, Greater Rochester Area | edition=New millenium | pages=93–94 | location=Rochester | publisher=Norex Publications | year=1998 | isbn=0-9649390-4-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_3uLNYXBBoYC&pg=PP93 | accessdate=2008-09-04}} 5. ^{{cite news | author=Editors | title=Garth Fagan Dance - Garth Fagan honored in Jamaica | url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1083/is_11_75/ai_80116492 | work=Dance Magazine | date=November 2001 | accessdate=2008-09-04}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.artsrochester.org/AAL/PastHonorees.htm |title=Arts Awards Recipients|publisher=Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester|accessdate=2010-03-19}} 7. ^{{cite web|author= |title=Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award |url=http://www.americandancefestival.org/history/awards.html |publisher=American Dance Festival |year=2008 |accessdate=2008-09-04 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721030544/http://www.americandancefestival.org/history/awards.html |archivedate=21 July 2010 |df= }} External links{{commons category}}{{Portal|Dance}}
|title = Awards for Garth Fagan |list ={{DramaDesk Choreography 1976–2000}}{{HelpmannAward ChoreographyMusical 2001-2020}}{{OlivierAward Choreographer 1991–2000}}{{TonyAward Choreography 1976-2000}} }}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Fagan, Garth}} 19 : 1940 births|Living people|Jamaican choreographers|Drama Desk Award winners|Guggenheim Fellows|Helpmann Award winners|Jamaican male dancers|Jamaican educators|Modern dancers|National Endowment for the Arts Fellows|Commanders of the Order of Distinction|Laurence Olivier Award winners|People from Kingston, Jamaica|Artists from Rochester, New York|State University of New York faculty|Tony Award winners|Wayne State University alumni|Bessie Award winners|Dance in New York (state) |
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